Shortage of nurses means wards closing, hospitals say Poor pay, work conditions drive nurses to UK hospitals Nigeria, Zimbabwe consider laws to tackle brain drain
By Bukola Adebayo
LAGOS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Emem Isong screamed in pain on a trolley outside a hospital.
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Her British employers will pay 20 times what she now earns, she said. SKILLED HEALTH WORKER VISAS Although Zimbabwe is much smaller than Nigeria, it was the number one African country receiving skilled health workers' visas from the UK - accounting for 16% last year. Before she came to Britain, Tendai earned about $200 a month as a senior nurse in Zimbabwe.
LAGOS, Nigeria" Emem Isong screamed in pain on a trolley outside a hospital accident and emergency department in Nigeria’s biggest city after a car ran over her foot and broke two of her toes. “Please hold on . there are just three of us on duty,” a nurse at the Ebute-Metta federal medical center in Lagos told the 33-year-old. “The alternative is for you to go to another