THE President, World Medical Association, Osahon Enabulele, has disclosed that Nigeria needs over 250,000 medical doctors to meet the World Health Organisation (WHO) doctor-to-patient ratio in the country.
Osahon said this in Benin at a public lecture organised by the Federated Chapel of the Edo Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
According to him, Nigeria has less than 100,000 doctors which is grossly inadequate to meet the doctor-patient ratio.
“Going by the international standard, a doctor should be assigned to less than 600 patient but in Nigeria case, a doctor attend to over 3,000. So Nigeria needs over 250,000 doctors to cope with the current reality.
“There is less than 100,000 registered doctors in Nigeria. Let’s say it is 98,000 doctors according to the last update. Out of this 98,000, only 50,000 are actually practising in Nigeria.”
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