{"id":208912,"date":"2025-10-04T12:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-health-workers-impossible-workloads-are-deepening-nigerias-doctor-patient-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:10:33","slug":"nigeria-health-workers-impossible-workloads-are-deepening-nigerias-doctor-patient-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-health-workers-impossible-workloads-are-deepening-nigerias-doctor-patient-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Health Workers&#8217; Impossible Workloads Are Deepening Nigeria&#8217;s Doctor-Patient Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">On September 1st, 2025, the medical community and Nigerians were shaken by the tragic news of the passing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2025\/09\/death-on-duty-how-overwork-claimed-dr-femi-rotifa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Femi Rotifa<\/a>, a Resident Doctor in the Department of Surgery at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Dr. Rotifa died while on call duty, an incident widely reported to be linked to the exhausting, and extended hours he had been compelled to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Sadly, this is not an isolated case. Over the years, countless doctors and healthcare workers <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC7883015\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have collapsed<\/a> under the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030480.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 1st, 2025, the medical community and Nigerians were shaken by the tragic news of the passing of Dr. Femi Rotifa, a Resident Doctor in the Department of Surgery at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH). Dr. Rotifa died while on call duty, an incident widely reported to be linked to the exhausting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00331446:330baba947c4809dd219e8916f3cb493:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,3723,16034,18281,5731,19132,257,4687,393,5761,254,6498,52485],"class_list":["post-208912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-deepening","tag-doctorpatient","tag-health","tag-impossible","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-south-africa-today","tag-workers","tag-workloads"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00331446:330baba947c4809dd219e8916f3cb493:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}