Medical experts have identified inadequate equipment, poor funding, shortage of skilled healthcare personnel and insufficient professional training as major factors fueling airway-related emergencies and preventable deaths in Nigerian hospitals.
The specialists made the assertion at the fourth annual scientific conference of the Society of Specialists in Airway Management (SSAM) in Ilorin, Kwara state, themed, “Towards Improving Safety in Airway Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach”.
The experts said that effective airway management remains a critical component of emergency, surgical and intensive care, warning that failure to promptly secure and maintain a patient’s airway often results in avoidable complications and death.
Delivering a keynote lecture, titled: “Leadership and Innovation in Holistic Airway Care and Safety”, consultant anaesthesiologist and Head of the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at Kibungo Teaching Hospital, Rwanda, Dr. Aderonke Adesiyan, said many airway-related disasters are caused not by a lack of technical expertise but by systemic failures, poor
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