More than 4 000 doctors and nurses have left Zimbabwe since 2021, according to its Health Services Board. Moneyweb HealthCareServices UKImmigration
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 centre in Lagos told the 33-year-old. “The alternative is for you to go to another hospital.” After a five-hour wait, nurses tended to Isong’s wounds.
Her husband sold their car and she is selling furniture and appliances before taking up her new job as a critical care nurse in the private sector in Britain. The mother-of-two, who asked for her surname not to be used, said it was increasingly hard to live on her 100,000 naira monthly salary. “I’m on duty at hospital all weekend, away from my children, all to be paid peanuts at the end of the month,” Josephine said. Her British employers will pay 20 times what she now earns, she said.
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