YET another indication of Nigerian health workers’ discontent with the increasingly inclement working climate in the country was provided last week when the Secretary-General/Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Dr. Faruk Abubakar, revealed that, on an annual basis, over 7,000 professional nurses leave the country for greener pastures. According to him, this was a clear testimony that the country had competent, efficient and hardworking professional nurses that could rank among the best in the world. If doctors, and now nurses, are leaving Nigeria in droves, that can only render the country’s rather wretched health sector further prostrate and impoverished, as it were. The constant haemorrhage of human resources in the health sector bodes ill for the country. Unless and until the ravages in the sector are addressed, the mass exodus that the establishment apparently frowns on will continue without let.

Source: Nigerian Tribune September 22, 2021 00:32 UTC