The United Kingdom To Stop Hiring Nigerian Doctors
-The United Kingdom has released a policy to curb the recruitment of Doctors from Nigeria and other developing countries
-The UK announced that this new policy is in line with recommendations by the World Health Organization
-The Policy, however, doesn’t stop Nigerian doctors from moving to the UK
The United Kingdom has introduced a policy that will stop the recruitment of doctors from developing countries of the world.
This policy is part of an updated code of conduct that will help the UK meet its target of delivering 50,000 more nurses by 2024.
The medical policy will affect 47 countries, most of them in Africa.
Some of the affected countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, and Madagascar.
Some of the countries affected outside Africa are Yemen, Nepal, and Haiti.
The new policy is on the back of recommendations from the World Health Organization.
UK recruiters are not allowed to recruit Nigerian Doctors or doctors of any of the other 47 countries except there is an agreement between both governments.
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At the moment, there are 8000 Nigerian-trained Doctors in the United Kingdom, according to records of the UK General Medical Council.
With more Doctors seeking migration, the Nigerian health sector has been left understaffed with 74,543 registered Doctors for the over 200 million population.
