The President of the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria, Professor Aminu Muhammad, has said that it would take Nigeria 10 years to replace the 500 Doctors who recently left Nigeria in search of greener pastures.

Muhammad was speaking against the backdrop of findings by the association from 50 out of 80 chapters confirmed that no fewer than 500 medical personnel have left the shore of Nigeria to the outside world.

The president who was fielding questions from newsmen shortly after he read a Communiqué of the Biennial Delegates Meeting of the Association held in Kano, lamented that the alarming exodus of Specialists out of the country painted a dark future for the health sector in the country.

He stressed that according to statistics available to them, more than 500 Medical Consultants have migrated out of the country in search of greener pastures elsewhere.