The Hidden Cost of Poor Hospital Management in Nigeria
Introduction I have walked into hospitals that looked right and felt wrong. Clean walls, functional equipment, trained doctors, good ambience, and yet, a quality of care that was consistently and inexplicably below what those inputs should have produced. Patients waiting in corridors because of a chaotic admissions process. Medicines running out mainly because nobody was […]
BEHIND THE CARE – The Conversation Nigerian Families Are Not Having
Introduction She birth ten children, raised eight and buried two. She has also buried a husband. She survived things that would have broken most people. Now she is 74, lives alone, and her children all scattered across Lagos, Abuja, London, and Houston call her every day. Sometimes twice. They send money, argue about who is […]
The System We Deserve
Introduction I have seen the bodies of dead children stacked under a staircase because there was no space in the morgue. That image has never left me. It is one of the images I return to every time someone asks me why I am passionate about healthcare in Nigeria. Those children had families. Families who […]