Don Advocates Reforms to Reverse Nigeria’s Healthcare Workforce Crisis
Funmi Ogundare
A Professor of Community Medicine at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Kayode Thadius Ijadunola, yesterday warned that Nigeria’s worsening health workforce crisis now poses a serious threat to the country’s health security and sustainable development, calling for sweeping reforms to avert a collapse of the healthcare system.
Ijadunola gave the warning while delivering the fifth Oladipo Akinkugbe distinguished lecture of the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo State, titled: ‘Reimagining the Nigerian Healthcare System: Leadership, Research and Innovation for the Future’.
He identified the mass migration of healthcare professionals and the retirement of experienced personnel as a double depletion that is weakening healthcare delivery and eroding future leadership capacity in the sector.
