page_title: Healthcare in Nigeria
section_title: Emigration of healthcare workers
hierarchical_section_title: Healthcare in Nigeria / Issues / Emigration of healthcare workers
caption_attribution_description: Original caption&#58; "Retaining the services of health care professionals like these nurses in Nigeria is an important objective of the Emergency Plan." — removed caption
context_page_description: Healthcare provision in Nigeria is a concurrent responsibility of the three tiers of government in the country. Private providers of healthcare have a visible role to play in health care delivery. The use of traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine has increased significantly over the past few years.
context_section_description: Migration of health care personnel to other countries is a tasking and relevant issue in the health care system of the country. From a supply push factor, a resulting rise in exodus of nurses may be due to dramatic factors that make the work unbearable and knowing and presenting changes to arrest the factors may stem a tide.
  Because a large number of nurses and doctors migrating abroad benefited from government funds for education, it poses a challenge to the patriotic identity of citizens and also the rate of return of federal funding of health care education. The state of healthcare in Nigeria has been worsened by a physician shortage as a consequence of severe 'brain drain'.
  Many Nigerian doctors have emigrated to North America and Europe. In 2005, 2,392 Nigeria doctors were practising in the US alone, in UK number was 1,529. Retaining these expensively trained professionals has been identified as an urgent goal. The brain drain cut across all healthcare professionals; thousands of Nigerian pharmacists and nurses are practicing in the UK and USA as well and so on.
caption: Retaining health care professionals is an important objective
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