MSF will be closing medical programmes across the country.
Soco said it would continue its social investment projects in the area, including road upgrades, medical programmes and mobile phone masts.
"Our organisation should be running some of the largest medical programmes in its 44-year history," Dr Joanne Liu, MSF's international president, said.
Muslims in Nigeria have been wary of medical programmes after 1996 when families in Kano state accused the drug firm Pfizer of using an experimental meningitis treatment on patients without fully informing them of the risks.
The programme is now expanding from the workplace to clinics in towns and villages near mines, in partnership with loveLife, an AIDS charity.Making a differenceSuch a huge programme is affordable in the mining industry, where in-house hospitals and medical programmes have long been the norm.
These developments are particularly seen in postgraduate/graduate entry medical programmes [15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20].
Most medical programmes have introduced practical skills training sessions.
It may also inform on the adequacy of medical programmes in training prescribing skills.
Research opportunities are a common feature of undergraduate medical programmes on an international scale.
9 The final list comprised 47 Wikipedia entries covering issues commonly included in undergraduate medical programmes.
It can be used to reflect the adequacy of medical programmes in training students for prescribing.
