A DARK cloud seems to be
hanging over Nigeria–trained
doctors desiring to practise in
the United Kingdom.
Figures released under the
Freedom of Information Request
by a British tabloid, the Daily Mail,
reveal that three-quarters of the
doctors struck off the General
Medical Council (GMC) register in
the past years are foreign-
trained and that those trained in
Nigeria rank second on the list of
those removed from the
professional register of the GMC .
According to the figures
published in the Mail article of
yesterday, India-trained doctors
top the list of foreign-trained
doctors to be struck off the GMC
register in the past five years and
Nigeria-trained doctors have the
record of being second.
Egypt-trained doctors occupy the
third spot. The paper revealed
further that “194 of the 285
doctors struck off for misconduct
or incompetence in the past five
years were foreign-trained, while
29 of the 39 removed from the
medical register in the past year
received their medical degree
overseas.”
Continuing, the paper disclosed
that “with only one-third of the
250,000 doctors on the medical
register trained outside the
United Kingdom, this means that
those from overseas were more
than five times likely than British
doctors to be banned.”
Quoting the data it obtained
under the Freedom of
Information Request - the
equivalent of Nigeria’s Freedom
of Information Act - the Mail
revealed that “India has the
largest number of doctors struck
off in Britain since 2008,
followed by Nigeria and Egypt.”
This is in sharp contrast to Hong
Kong, which has the best record,
“with none of more than 700
doctors working here – in the UK
– struck off or disciplined in the
past five years. New Zealand’s
600 medics also have a clean
record.”
Based on the revelations, the
paper quoted Julia Manning, the
chief executive of the 2020
Health think-tank, as saying
“these figures are really worrying
and shocking” and that “we
need to take a hard look at the
assessment of all doctors coming
into the country.”

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=109219:nigeria-trained-doctors-rank-second-on-uk-blacklist&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Indian doctors are every where on the British NHS. Logic states since numerically you have more Indian doctors, they are bound to top the list. Nigerian doctors in the UK also out number that of Hong Kong but the rascist daily mail won't see that.

Anyway first to comment sha.

nigerian trained doctors are trying on their own part anyway!
Considering archaic apparatus and learning materials put in place for them, bad academic calender caused by ASUU-fg disagreement, uncultured lecturers, poor academia amenities, and lack of finances for the required books. These doctors still tried making do with their little knowledge from 'la crame la pour'.
Most of them would be better than the foreign trained if they had their oppurtunites.

The stats ain't alarming if analysed properly. It's perfectly normal to have more foreign trained doctors of india/nigeria origin being struck off the GMC list since they also contribute to the most being hired.