Nigeria: Ministry Debates Incentives to Keep Healthworkers

1 November 2011

Health authorities are considering how incentives from better work pay to automatic employment might help retain health workers in facilities and cut down the rate of maternal mortality across the country.

Key officials in the federal health ministry and representatives of regulatory agencies met with officials from six north-eastern states--Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi, Yobe, Borno and Gombe--with rapidly falling number of healthworkers.

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