Penultimate week, President Muhammadu Buhari lamented that Nigeria loses over N400 billion annually to medical tourism and urged stakeholders to join hands to find solution to it.
At a digital health summit recently in Lagos, organised by Premier Medical System, PMS, PharmAccess Foundation and Healthcare Federation of Nigeria, HFN, with theme:, stakeholders lamented the low acceptance of digital technology in the health sector. Mobile health is the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices. It deals with using mobile communication devices such as mobile phones, tablet computers and wearable devices such as smart watches, for health services, information, and data collection.
Omasteye described digital innovation as: “The transfer of skills using mhealth such as mobile phone and internet to be able to get highly skilled jobs that are usually done by highly trained people and pass on to people who are not trained. “There is also ECG machine which can work with your phone, it tells you exactly how to place the machine and you send the result back to your doctor.
Corroborating Omatseye, Coordinator, Lagos Zone National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Mr. Olufemi Akingbade, said Nigeria is nowhere in implementing mHealth yet.