The COVID-19 pandemic and health workforce brain drain in Nigeria

International Journal for Equity in Health

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Tonderai Murwira¹  Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi²  Abdullahi Tunde Aborode³  Ahmed Adeseye Kareem⁴  Abdulwahab Aliu⁴  Khalil-ur-Rahman Abdullah⁴  Lukman Lawal⁴  Abdulwahab Oluwatomisin Lawal⁴  Taiye Muhammed Elelu⁴  Abdulmujeeb Opeyemi Muhammad-Olodo⁴  Opeyemi Pius Amosu⁴  Nasir Abdulrasheed⁴  Philemon Barnabas Kuza⁵ 

[1] Department of Development Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Lupane State University, 67, Mbizi Street, Mvurwi, Lupane, Zimbabwe;Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria;Healthy Africans Platform, Research and Development, Ibadan, Nigeria;Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria;MCON Institute of Medical Research, Ilorin, Nigeria;Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria;MCON Institute of Medical Research, Ilorin, Nigeria;Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria;

关键词: COVID-19 pandemic;    Medical brain-drain;    Nurses;    Pharmacists;    Job satisfaction;    Healthcare workers;    Migration;    Global skill partnership model;    Nigeria;    Africa;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12939-022-01789-z

 received in 2021-12-22, accepted in 2022-11-10,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Over the years, the Nigerian healthcare workforce, including doctors, nurses, and pharmacists have always been known to emigrate to developed countries to practice. However, the recent dramatic increase in this trend is worrisome. There has been a mass emigration of Nigerian healthcare workers to developed countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the push factors have been found to include the inadequate provision of personal protective equipment, low monthly hazard allowance, and inconsistent payment of COVID-19 inducement allowance on top of worsening insecurity, the pull factors are higher salaries as well as a safe and healthy working environment. We also discuss how healthcare workers can be retained in Nigeria through increment in remunerations and prompt payment of allowances, and how the brain drain can be turned into a brain gain via the use of electronic data collection tools for Nigerian health workers abroad, implementation of the Bhagwati’s tax system, and establishment of a global skill partnership with developed countries.Graphical Abstract

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s) 2022

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