{"id":48603,"date":"2023-08-14T13:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=48603"},"modified":"2023-08-14T13:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:07:55","slug":"there-wont-be-enough-people-left-africa-struggles-to-stop-brain-drain-of-doctors-and-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/14\/there-wont-be-enough-people-left-africa-struggles-to-stop-brain-drain-of-doctors-and-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There won\u2019t be enough people left\u2019: Africa struggles to stop brain drain of doctors and nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45919\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nigeria-doctor-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nigeria-doctor-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nigeria-doctor-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nigeria-doctor.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It took nearly three hours of queueing in Ikorodu general hospital in Lagos state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nigeria\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Nigeria<\/a>, before Hadijat Hassan, a retired civil servant, could see a nurse. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/14\/africa-health-worker-brain-drain-acc\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>It took nearly three hours of queueing in Ikorodu general hospital in Lagos state, Nigeria, before Hadijat Hassan, a retired civil servant,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zim-nurses.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48604,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48603\/revisions\/48604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}