The Minister of State for Environment, Dr. Iziaq Salako, has said that more intense extreme weather, widespread flooding, large storms, heat waves, long droughts, wildfires, coastal erosion, and hurricanes, as a result of climate change, have increased demands for healthcare in Nigeria.
Salako asserted this while presenting a paper titled ‘Building a Resilient Health Workforce: Embracing Climate-Centric Innovations’ at the Scientific Conference organized by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
He explained, “Using a combination of climate models, space-based observations, and historical records from as far back as the 1800s, scientists have been able to conclusively link the increasing extreme weather events to climate change, occasioned by global warming.
“In 2024, these weather extremes appear to be occurring across the world at a level never seen before,…
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