A new bill to impose five years’ mandatory service on Nigeria’s medical graduates in an effort to stop the exodus of doctors to the UK and the US has been attacked as “obnoxious”. “The government has invested so much money in training these medical doctors,” he said. It is another factor driving Nigerian doctors abroad. The UK is the biggest recruiter of Nigerian doctors, alongside Canada, the US and Saudi Arabia. Nigerian doctors say that the country’s private sector suffers even more than the state-funded system.

Source: The Guardian May 22, 2023 12:40 UTC