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Cameroon seen losing all its doctors by 2009
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| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jul 01, 2006 12:15pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, July 1, 2006 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | YAOUNDE, Jun (Reuters) - Cameroon could lose all of its 3,000 practicing doctors within three years if the government does not act quickly to stem a brain drain in the health sector, the national doctors' association said on Friday.
"Between now and 2009 if nothing is done to stop this mass exodus our hospitals will be empty and the government may be forced to undertake a massive recruitment of young doctors," Professor Tetanye Okie, vice president of the ONMC association, told Reuters.
The West African country officially has about 3,000 practicing clinicians for its 17 million people but because they are clustered in towns and cities, rural areas are often left with one doctor for 40,000 inhabitants, Okie said.
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