1004 primary care physicians in the USA are Nigerians

Article from annals of family medicine says 1004 physicians in primary care in the US had their medical education in Nigeria. The article makes the point that Nigeria desperately needs these physicians in their country. See below: [b]Overall, IMGs constitute 28.3% of all US primary care physicians, and this percentage has been increasing with time: 18.6% in 1980, 21.7% in 1990, and 27.5% in 2000.13 The relationship between GNI per capita and contribution to the US primary care work-force is marked; countries whose IMGs contributed to maintaining the primary care physician supply in the United States were among the more economically disadvantaged and with very low physician-to-population ratios. The most impoverished, underdeveloped nation states of the African continent were a comparatively major source of primary care doctors to the United States, further diminishing their own capacity to meet the needs of their citizens. The magnitude of the physician drain is dramatically illustrated by Nigeria. There were 1,004 primary care physicians practicing in the United States who received their undergraduate medical training in Nigeria. The rate of mortality of children younger than 5 years there was 198 per 1,000, and the average life expectancy 51 years. Nigeria recorded immunization rates of 25%, 39%, and 35% for 1-year-old children for DPT3, polio3, and measles, respectively. The Nigerian population to physician ratio was greater than 3,700 to 1. [/b]