In a bid to expand healthcare delivery across the state and beyond, a team of innovators at Dennis Osadebe University (DOU), Asaba, have launched a digital platform — the NIHEAL (Nigeria’s Innovative Health Entrepreneurship, Access and Linked ICT) Project — to confront the challenges currently bedevilling the nation’s health sector.
Dr Iheanacho Metuonu described the platform as a telemedicine application that deploys ICT to advance medical care delivery nationwide, with a vision to rethink healthcare access in Nigeria.
Beyond improving access to care, Metuonu added that the platform also offers economic empowerment to medical graduates, undergraduates and allied health professionals through flexible freelance opportunities. He described NIHEAL as an entrepreneurial health ecosystem addressing two critical challenges: healthcare access and employment generation.
He expressed confidence that the project would play a vital role across the healthcare value chain and urged health professionals to remain innovative in tackling sectoral challenges.
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