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Al Jazeera
Health
Pelumi Salako

Death on duty: State negligence leads to exodus of Nigerian doctors

A surgeon is seen at work on a patient with a bullet wound at the main hospital in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, January 25, 2022 [Audu Marte/AFP]

Lagos, Nigeria — At about 7pm on August 1, when Vwaere Daiso exited her room on the ninth floor of the 10-storey residence for doctors at the Lagos hospital where she worked to retrieve a parcel from the ground floor, she had no idea it was the last time she would do so.

Moments later, she crashed to the floor together with the lift which had become unhinged.

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