The human workforce is perhaps the most devastating. Nigeria has less than 90 clinical oncologists, a woefully inadequate number to serve a population of such size. This shortage is further worsened by “The Japa Syndrome”, a brain drain that sees skilled healthcare professionals fleeing to greener pastures, leaving behind a nation grappling with a medical crisis in the hands of a depleted workforce.
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