NIGERIA FACES SEVERE DOCTOR SHORTAGE AS ONLY 55,000 DOCTORS LEFT FOR 220M PEOPLE AMID RISING EMIGRATION — NMA. (PHOTO).

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 Medical doctors have warned that Nigeria’s healthcare system is under severe strain due to a worsening manpower crisis, with only about 55,000 doctors currently practising for a population of over 220 million people. The concern was raised at the Ordinary General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital (FNPH), Yaba, Lagos, themed “Too Few Doctors, Too Many Patients: The Consequences of Manpower Shortage on the Mental Well-being of Nigerians.” The doctors, including mental health specialists, said the shortage is significantly worsening access to psychiatric care, leaving millions of Nigerians without adequate treatment. They also disclosed that no fewer than 16,000 Nigerian doctors have left the country in the past five years, intensifying an already critical shortage in the health sector. According to them, the sustained emigration of health workers under the popular “Japa” phenomenon has depleted the menta...

SYDNEY MALL ATTACKER HAD MENTAL ILLNESS, 'NOTHING' TO SUGGEST TERROR MOTIVE. (PHOTO).


 Sydney mall attacker had mental illness, 'nothing' to suggest terror motive


The 40-year-old knifeman, Joel Cauchi, roamed the packed shopping centre killing six people and seriously wounding a dozen others.


Australian police said a 40-year-old itinerant with mental illness was behind a Sydney shopping centre stabbing rampage that killed six people, including a new mum whose nine-month-old baby is still in hospital with serious wounds.


New South Wales police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said the assailant, who was shot dead by a senior police officer at the scene on Saturday, was Queensland man Joel Cauchi.


Five women and one male security guard were killed in the attack as Cauchi roved through a packed shopping centre in the city's Bondi Junction neighbourhood with a large knife. Twelve more people are still in hospital.


"The sound of people screaming was horrific," said eyewitness Daphi Kiselstein, who was shopping at the time of the attack and took refuge in a store with other terrified people.

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