Nigeria – Brain Drain – Kano loses 100 doctors in six months – NMA

The Nigerian Medical Association has urged Kano state government to declare state of emergency in the health sector to halt the mass exodus of medical practitioners from government hospitals across the state.

The NMA said that the state has witnessed the disengagement of over one hundred medical doctors in the last 6 months.

Briefing newsmen in Kano, Chairman local chapter of NMA, Dr Shehi Ali Abubakar stated that the mass exodus of medical doctors to federal Institution and neighbouring states was brought about by what he described as “systemic decay in the available facilities”.

Abubakar disclosed that a Paediatrics ward at Murtala Muhammad Hospital has been closed down due to lack of manpower, stressing that at present, only 65 doctors attend to patients in a facility adjudged as one of the busiest Government Hospital in the state…

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