{"id":90886,"date":"2026-06-18T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90886"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:41:34","slug":"japa-only-55000-doctors-left-for-220m-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/18\/japa-only-55000-doctors-left-for-220m-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Japa: Only 55,000 doctors left for 220m Nigerians"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/resident_doctors__1592228580_11348__1592228580_17069.jpg\" alt=\"Japa: Only 55,000 doctors left\u00a0for\u00a0220m Nigerians\" width=\"712\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201416,000 doctors emigrated in 5 years.\u00a0\u2014It\u2019s worsening Nigeria\u2019s mental health crisis \u2014 ARD, FNPH Yaba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/06\/japa-only-55000-doctors-left-for-220m-nigerians\/\">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>\u201416,000 doctors emigrated in 5 years.\u00a0\u2014It\u2019s worsening Nigeria\u2019s mental health crisis \u2014 ARD, FNPH Yaba Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Nigeria-population.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90886","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=90886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90887,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90886\/revisions\/90887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}