UNFPA Urges Nigeria to Address Health Worker Push Factors
ABUJA, Nigeria – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says Nigeria health worker migration should not be viewed as the country’s biggest challenge, insisting…
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brain drain
Nigeria Hired 37,000 Health Workers. Why Are Doctors, Nurses Still Leaving?
LAGOS, Nigeria – Every day, Nigeria loses some of its most experienced doctors and nurses to hospitals overseas. Even as the federal government recruits…
Academy Urges Action on Maternal Mortality
ABUJA, Nigeria – The maternal mortality in Nigeria crisis remains unacceptable and requires urgent action alongside stronger epidemic preparedness and measures to stem the…
El-Rufai’s Wife Warns of Healthcare Intimidation
ABUJA, Nigeria – Healthcare intimidation in Nigeria could deepen the country’s medical workforce crisis if doctors are targeted for treating politically exposed persons, Asiya…
Experts Demand Better Pay, Tighter Sachet Water Regulation in Oyo
IBADAN, Nigeria – Health and laboratory experts have called for improved wages for laboratory professionals and stricter regulation of sachet water production, warning that…
Nigeria Faces Critical Shortage of Public Health Physicians – Experts Warn
ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria is grappling with a severe shortage of public health physicians, a crisis driven by a wider deficit of medical doctors…
Experts Warn Unsafe Sachet Water, Demand Better Pay for Lab Workers
OYO, Nigeria – Laboratory professionals raise alarm over unsafe sachet water production and poor wages, warning that regulatory gaps are fuelling preventable diseases across…
Nursing Provost Urges Better Pay to Curb Brain Drain
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Provost of Oasis College of Nursing Sciences, Mary Oritimehin has calls for improved pay and working conditions to stem the…
Nigeria Health Crisis: Workforce Shortage, Drug Imports Threaten System – NAS
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) has warned that Nigeria’s worsening shortage of health workers and heavy reliance on imported medicines…
Nigeria Trains Them, Others Pay Them: The Quiet Exodus Emptying Our Wards
ABUJA, Nigeria – On a humid afternoon inside Kubwa General Hospital, the rhythm of care never slows. Call bells ring. Paper files shuffle. A…