No fewer than 32,341 candidates have applied to fill the 206 health sector vacancies advertised by the Cross River Government.
This is contained in a document obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar, the state capital, on Thursday.
According to the document, as of the 2 September deadline for submission of application, a total of 49 doctors had applied to fill the 31 available spaces.
“1,240 nurses applied for the 153 vacancies while 184 persons applied to fill the 22 advertised spaces for pharmacists,” the document revealed.
The document further showed that although vacancies were not advertised for medical laboratory scientists, a total of 776 candidates applied for employment in that category.
NAN reports that the state government also received job applications from other health sector fields where vacancies were not advertised.
It would be recalled that in August, Henry Ayuk, the Commissioner for Health, announced that Governor Bassey Otu had…