 Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, says Nigeria will be one of the best medically-rich countries in the world if only medical professionals abroad can return home. Professor Abayomi said this at the state chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association's scientific conference titled, Medical Practice and the Law, Emerging Challenges for the Nigerian Doctors. Plus TV Africa's correspondent, Destiny Momo, has more. The emerging challenges for the Nigerian Doctor vis-à-vis practice and the law in improving the health indices through a functional system form the major discuss at this conference. Lagos State Health Commissioner, Professor Abayomi, speaks on the Delta COVID-19 variant and resident Doctor Strike. He says the variant is under control with Nigerian professionals having huge diasporic influence. In Lagos, the Lagos State Biobank suggests that we have quite a large number of international COVID variants circulating in our environment. We're doing a lot of work to be able to characterize them. So in Lagos State, we take the medical fraternity very seriously. We've tried our best to address all the issues, all the issues. Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association Lagos Chapter, Dr Adetungi Adenikon, laments that there is an increase in case of alleged medical malpractice and negligence in Lagos State. He says the emerging challenges will afford all stakeholders the opportunity to appraise development in the sector. Myriads of challenges of issue of medical negligence, perceived most times as medical negligence, though they may be actual, and we have also been faced with a lot of social media try-out on medical issues, the case of medical errors, malpractice, or something quackery as the case is. On the ongoing strike and expectation from the federal government, enemy Lagos chairman and presidents of resident doctors in different hospitals in Lagos bear their minds. So that this collateral damage can be reduced to the various minimum, and I appeal and pray that this should be the shortest of strike that we have ever had. We need them to do something to act, to keep to their promises, to keep to their words, and we don't want people to be paying leave service to think they are essential to the Nigerian populace. We are going to see a lot of action, but we haven't seen that. We would love to see that action. We would love to see resident doctors who were on the give-miss platform, they were supposed to be captured in the new IP platform, who would love to see them being captured immediately. Dr. Adene Khan said that the theme could not have come at a better time when almost all unfavorable outcomes of medical care were seen as consequence of medical and dental practitioners' negligence. Destiny Momo for Plus TV Africa.