Nigeria: 9,000 Doctors Moved to UK, U.S., Canada in 2 Years – NMA
April 5, 2022
Nigeria: 9,000 Doctors Moved to UK, U.S., Canada in 2 Years – NMA
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“The emigration of the medical experts which the NMA said happened between 2016 and 2018, negatively impacted the nation’s health care system that only 4.7% of specialists were left to take care of Nigerians’ health issues.”
Truly shocking. People unable to receive treatment in Nigeria because we’re allowing their medical staff to emigrate to the UK. Sometimes I’m ashamed to be British.
As someone who spends a fair amount of time in Nigeria and is close to their medical community, I can tell you that the U.K. is a distant 3rd place for desirability these days.
The general perception is that the NHS works doctors like slaves and doesn’t pay an especially competitive wage. Canada has good wages and good work/life balance, but you’ll always be poor because of their housing market. America is the highest earning, but working conditions are as bad as UK and it’s the least pleasant place to live (so go there to send the $ back home).
Hopefully better than the middle-aged India/Pakistan-educated GPs, with a lack of knowledge of musculoskeletal or mental health issues and a general god complex (downvote me, but there’s a reason they have the highest GP complaint rate in the NHS). As soon as I here their accent I’m like “oh, here we go again, another uphill battle”. Inb4 “racist”, when I have a cousin who is a doctor from there (just not in the UK).
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“The emigration of the medical experts which the NMA said happened between 2016 and 2018, negatively impacted the nation’s health care system that only 4.7% of specialists were left to take care of Nigerians’ health issues.”
Truly shocking. People unable to receive treatment in Nigeria because we’re allowing their medical staff to emigrate to the UK. Sometimes I’m ashamed to be British.
As someone who spends a fair amount of time in Nigeria and is close to their medical community, I can tell you that the U.K. is a distant 3rd place for desirability these days.
The general perception is that the NHS works doctors like slaves and doesn’t pay an especially competitive wage. Canada has good wages and good work/life balance, but you’ll always be poor because of their housing market. America is the highest earning, but working conditions are as bad as UK and it’s the least pleasant place to live (so go there to send the $ back home).
Hopefully better than the middle-aged India/Pakistan-educated GPs, with a lack of knowledge of musculoskeletal or mental health issues and a general god complex (downvote me, but there’s a reason they have the highest GP complaint rate in the NHS). As soon as I here their accent I’m like “oh, here we go again, another uphill battle”. Inb4 “racist”, when I have a cousin who is a doctor from there (just not in the UK).