The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), Plateau State, Dr. Pokop Bupwatda, has described the dwindling number of medical personnel in the hospital as alarming. He disclosed that it has become a tradition to receive resignation letter from medical personnel who seek greener pastures outside Nigeria every week. SaharaReporters reported on Saturday that the shortage of medical doctors and other healthcare professionals continued to bite hard across Nigerian major teaching and general hospitals.
The migration of doctors and other health workers to other countries is taking a toll on hospitals across the country as the institutions have reduced the number of their outpatients and surgeries due to a shortage of manpower.
The potential closure of more teaching hospitals due to a shortage of healthcare professionals, exacerbated by a significant migration of nurses and doctors abroad, has been highlighted by Dr. Dele A
The shortage of medical doctors and other healthcare professionals continues to bite hard across Nigerian major teaching and general hospitals, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has confirmed, citing poor working conditions and failure of the government to carry out recruitment. The NARD confirmed that a ward at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), Ile Ife, Osun State, which is the Behavioral Science/Psychiatry section has also been shut down due to shortage of personnel.