Lagos needs 33,000 doctors to meet healthcare demands – Commissioner

The Lagos State Government has revealed that the authorities requires astir 40,000 aesculapian doctors to adequately conscionable the healthcare demands of its rapidly increasing population, but presently has lone astir 7,000 doctors successful its wellness system.

The authorities said the shortfall has created a manpower shortage of much than 33,000 physicians crossed the state’s healthcare sector.

The Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, disclosed this on Tuesday during the 2026 Ministerial Press Briefing held successful Alausa, Ikeja, to people the seventh day of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration.

According to Abayomi, Lagos besides faces a shortage of astir 40,000 nurses and different healthcare unit needed to fortify work transportation crossed nationalist wellness institutions.

He explained that the shortage forms portion of a wider planetary healthcare workforce situation affecting galore countries.

“Nigeria has 40,000 doctors presently astatine a ratio of 1 doc to 5,000 population. Nigeria needs 300,000 caller doctors portion Lagos requires 40,000 further doctors. Currently, Lagos has 7,000. The spread for Lagos is 30,000 doctors and 40,000 nurses,” helium said.

The commissioner noted that contempt the challenge, Lagos was gradually becoming much charismatic to aesculapian professionals.

“For each doc we person ...