UK To Stop Recruiting Doctors From Nigeria, 46 Others
The United Kingdom has introduced a new policy in a bid to curb the recruitment of doctors from Nigeria and other developing countries. The policy does not, bar Nigerian doctors from migrating to the UK. This is according to a statement by the UK government titled, ‘UK to strengthen its ethical approach to the international recruitment of health and care workers’ on February 25, 2021. The updated code of practice,which will help to meet UK’s target of delivering 50,000 more nurses by 2024, is expected to affect 47 countries especially Nigeria, which has third largest number of migrant doctors in the UK.
The UK said the new policy was in line with the World Health Organisation’s WHO. There are currently over 8,000 Nigerian trained doctors in the UK General Medical Council, the government body that maintains the country’s official register of medical practitioners.
