The lack of medical services in West Africa represents a serious issue in sanitary emergency. As of , different West African countries counted less than a doctor every 10,000 inhabitants. Especially, Sierra Leone had physicians per 100,000 individuals, the lowest density of medical doctors in West Africa. Moreover, Burkina Faso was estimated to have only ** ventilators in the whole country for a population of almost people.
The average number of doctors across the OECD countries in 2019 equaled to ** per 10,000 inhabitants. The member countries of OECD are mostly high-income countries, whereas Nigeria is an emerging economy and it belongs to countries with lower middle-incomes.
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