At the height of the pandemic, social media was rife with information about the difficulties patients were encountering, and this information served as the impetus for the founding of CovidNigerianMedics, a network of Nigerian medical professionals working both locally and abroad.
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Infrastructural Decay
Address infrastructural decay, motivate health workers to curb brain drain, doctors in diaspora...
All medical and surgical disciplines are included in our discussion of the various clinical practise areas in emergency and planned hospital care, including infection prevention and control procedures, patient safety, clinical governance, and risk management.
We anticipate the Government’s acknowledgement being favourable. The CMF is adamant that the government and the medical community must work together to address the severe healthcare issues that have dogged Nigeria for years. A strong relationship between the government’s visionary leadership and the passion, commitment, and drive of the CMF membership will start to bring about real healthcare transformation.
What we are about
Nigeria is expected to reach 300 million people by 2036, exceeding the population of the United States by 2050, with an estimated 206 million people as of 2019 (1 in 5 Africans). Providing and delivering high-quality healthcare to such a vast population has always been difficult, and the Covid 19 pandemic has made things much more difficult. Even the most advanced healthcare systems have been tested by the epidemic, which poses a threat to world healthcare. The pandemic has exposed flaws in these healthcare systems in numerous low- and middle-income countries, including Nigeria, and plunged a faltering health sector into crisis. The WHO estimates that Nigeria has the lowest physician to patient ratios worldwide, with 0.4 doctors per 1000 people, 1.5 nurses per 1000 people, and 0.1 community health workers per 1000 people.
