The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria on Wednesday lamented the rate at which the country was losing its professional nurses and midwives to foreign countries.
The council disclosed that over 14,000 nurses had left Nigeria for “greener pastures” in many countries across the world.
The Secretary General/Registrar of the Council, Dr Faruk Abubakar, disclosed this at the opening of a retreat for top management of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Thursday.
As part of the solutions to arrest the ugly trend, Abubakar said the council had introduced a two-year community nursing and midwifery programme to provide a nursing workforce at the grassroots.
He explained, “We come to strategically introduce the Community Nursing and Midwifery Programme so that these younger, lower cadres of nurses are retained in the community and continue to discharge their nursing and midwifery care. After two years of service in rural communities, they can always continue their education.”
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