From what I’ve seen, it’s honestly both. I've talked to my neighbor who’s lived in Abuja for 30 years, and she says the city used to be way smaller and the hospitals were decent for the number of people then. But lately, so many people have moved to Abuja for work that the city’s just way bigger than it was supposed to be when they built most of the big hospitals. So, yeah, the population boom is part of it.

At the same time, the government really could have planned better. It feels like they just keep reacting instead of actually planning for the future. My uncle always complains that there are way too many committees talking and not enough action to add more beds, hire more staff, or build new hospitals. So, I’d say both things are true: Abuja is growing super fast, but the government hasn’t kept up, and now regular people are stuck dealing with super long waits, crowded hospitals, and even losing loved ones when things could have been prevented. That just doesn’t seem fair.