Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has revealed that Lagos State currently faces a deficit of 30,000 doctors and a significant shortage of nurses, pharmacists, dentists, laboratory scientists, and other allied health professionals.
Speaking, on Tuesday, at the official handover of key medical infrastructure to contractors for conversion into modern academic facilities, Abayomi stated that the government’s response to the severe shortage of human resources for health, exacerbated by the sustained outbound migration of medical professionals is what is driving the conversion of some facilities to modern academic facilities.
Abayomi explained that the expansion is part of a broader two-pronged strategy approved by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to mitigate the crisis. The first approach is to produce more healthcare professionals by increasing student intake, which necessitates a substantial…
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