More teaching hospitals risk shutdown over exodus of medical professionals
3 years agoA state ambulance leaves the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital as activities resume following the suspension of strike by medical doctors in Lagos, on May 21, 2020. - Doctors in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos on May 21, 2020 suspended a strike over alleged police harassment of health workers during a dusk-to-dawn curfew aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19. The strike by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) began in the city of 20 million people on May 20, 2020, paralysing health services at a time of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)
More teaching hospitals might shut down due to shortage of nurses and doctors on account of their massive relocation abroad, president of Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. Dele Abdullahi, has indicated.