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Tue May 04 2021
Medical experts have decried the high rate of personnel decline in the health sector as a result of migration to other countries or sectors of the economy.
They stated this during a four-day Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
The National President of MDCAN, Professor Kenneth Ozoilo, said the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the gaping deficiencies in the health sector, resulting from years of neglect and chronic underfunding.
He said the country has continued to lose highly skilled manpower, both young and old, at an alarming rate and with little or no mitigating effort from the government.