Browsing: Japa Syndrome

Unfortunately, from records, the Nigerian health sector has over the years suffered severe underfunding. Each budget year, the majority of health advocates lament the federal government’s inability to meet the Abuja Declaration’s target of allocating at least 15% of the country’s budget to the health sector. Consequently, the sector has continued to dwindle in service quality with the resultant capital flight occasioned by medical tourism.  The brain drain a.k.a Japa syndrome depleting human resources for health and the preponderance of quacks in the sector are all part of the consequences of poor investment in the sector.

Abubakar was speaking on the controversy surrounding the nurses’ certificate verification on Tuesday’s edition of Channels Television’s Morning Brief.