Healthcare professionals and stakeholders have called for stronger leadership, entrepreneurship, and management training in Nigeria’s health sector.
They argued that clinical expertise alone cannot address the growing challenges of workforce shortages, inadequate funding, and limited access to quality care.
They made the call at the 2026 H-LEMP Africa Conference, themed “Transforming Africa’s Healthcare: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management Capacity Development for Sustainable Impact,” where stakeholders examined ways to strengthen healthcare delivery beyond traditional medical practice.
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Iziaq Salako, said developing competent healthcare leaders was essential to managing available resources, attracting investment and strengthening local production of medical equipment and consumables.
Salako, who was represented at the event by the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Prof. John Obafunwa, said Nigeria must tackle healthcare funding gaps, workforce shortages and poor access to quality services simultaneously.
He noted that the country’s commitment to allocating 15
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