Nigeria’s health system faces crisis amid financing, workforce shortages – Public physicians warn

…Say out-of-pocket payments push families into poverty
By Chioma ObinnaNigeria must urgently overhaul its health financing, workforce policies, and governance systems if it hopes to stop the country’s worsening health indicators from spiralling further, Public Health Physicians warned.
The experts who spoke at the Biennial & Scientific Conference of the Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria, APHPN, Lagos Chapter.
Speaking at the conference, Chairman of the Lagos Ch