The World Health Organization WHO has included Nigeria and 54 other countries on its Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List 2023, because they face the most pressing health workforce challenges related to universal health coverage.
The WHO in the report released on March 8 said the 55 countries have a density of doctors, nurses, and midwives below the global median like 49 per 10 000 population, and a universal health coverage service coverage index below a certain threshold.
To account for the disruptions caused to health services by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the effects on health worker mobility and migration, the threshold for the universal health coverage service coverage index for the WHO health workforce support and safeguards list 2023 has been increased from 50 which was used for the 2020 list to 55.
A total of 37 countries including Nigeria were listed under the African Region category, only Haiti was named under the Region of the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean Region comprises six countries, three were recorded from the South-East Asia Region and seven from the Western Pacific Region category.
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