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“Too Critical to That Hospital”: Dr Brian Deaver on Bringing Nigeria’s Health Workers Home

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Dr Brian Deaver says one of the African Medical Centre of Excellence’s missions is to bring Nigeria’s health workers home. He also says that sometimes he turns down the best candidate for a job, because taking that person would hurt the hospital they would leave behind.

Deaver has worked on five continents, he says, and in nearly every health institution he has seen around the world, many of the staff are Nigerian. 

“You realize the level of talent and education that population has,”

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