"For decades, the state of Nigeria's public health sector has made national headlines with accounts of underpaid doctors carrying out surgeries by candlelight in the absence of power supply, patients paying for gloves and other missing basics, dilapidated facilities and nonexistent research departments. Those who can afford to seek care abroad typically do so. There is also a dearth of emergency response services."
"An exodus of medical personnel has exacerbated the situation, resulting in a doctor-to-patient ratio at the last count of 1:9,801. According to the health ministry, an estimated 16,000 doctors have left Nigeria in the last seven years. The will of God' As Nigerians at home and abroad mourned Adichie's son this week and the Lagos state government ordered an inquiry, stories flooded social media about a crisis of errors by medical personnel."
A 21-month-old child died after a doctor allegedly administered an overdose of the sedative propofol, prompting legal action for medical negligence. The incident has intensified calls for urgent reforms, accountability and transparency in hospitals. Nigeria's public health sector suffers from underpaid staff, frequent power outages, dilapidated facilities, missing basic supplies and absent research units, driving many patients to seek care abroad. A major exodus of doctors has produced a severe doctor-to-patient imbalance and an estimated 16,000 departures in seven years. Emergency response services are sparse, and authorities have launched inquiries amid widespread social media accounts of medical errors.
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