Since the inception of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, the public healthcare centres have been overwhelmed due to urgent attention given towards combating the raging virus.
have accommodated telemedicine as a policy into their public healthcare systems. Although Nigeria is yet to expressively include it in its national policy, some private institutions seem to be promoting it. Even the government is taking a similar approach in handling COVID-19 by encouraging self-isolation, telephone diagnosis., one of the latest Nollywood movies on Netflix, employed telemedicine – that is tele-delivery – in driving home its central message.
At the climax of the over two hours of the movie, the trio of the screen divas: Yemi Solade, Toyin Abraham and Timini Egbuson brought to the scene an intriguing enactment using a phone call to facilitate safe and baby delivery. You should perhaps see the movie too! Reeling out the plans of the association, the NANNM’s President revealed: “We are now training a crop of people who would be in charge of health call centres to give over-the-counter remedies. This will reduce the impacts of the burden of diseases and save lives.
“By the virtue of our network, we can easily identify the nurses, doctors, laboratory attendants at each senatorial district that would work hand-in-hand for coordination when there is a need to redirect people to nearby hospitals. “There may be challenges along the way but this is an initiative that has been in practice in advanced countries and we hope to succeed with it too in order to give qualitative, safe, timely, very accessible counselling and care.”
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