Kola Afolabi, Managing Director, Ago Medical Centre, Okota, Lagos, has raised concern over the worsening exodus of Nigerian health workers, warning that the trend if allowed to continue without putting a check, could cripple the country’s healthcare system within the next 15 years.
Afolabi expressed this concern while speaking with newsmen at the reopening of the hospital, which took place at the weekend and attended by dignitaries, with Chairman of the occasion being the Secretary of Pan- Democracy Group, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Ayo Opadokun, sadly saying that hospitals in the Country finds it increasingly difficult to recruit doctors and nurses and, therefore, the need for the government to urgently address the situation.
The Ago Medical Centre, first established years ago, was rebuilt after its previous facility was gutted by fire on February 28, 2025.