Health Care Innovation

Health is one of the determinants for poverty.

In 2017, when I started working with Japan International Cooperation Agency, as operation manager in charge of one of the intervention, Automatic Appointment Reminder and Defaulter Tracing System.

It was part of my duties to visit, supervise, troubleshoot, engage, analyze data from 100 Primary Health Centers (PHCs) in Lagos State.

At that point, I realized most of those PHCs were not mapped and see this as a problem not just for me but as for many people who are willing to access health care services. This was even one of our project deliverables, ensuring access to health care for all.

I signed up with Google local guide and at every of my visit to any of the PHCs, I ensured the hospital is mapped so that whenever anyone try to locate a PHCs near them or far away from them you can easily find the hospital.

Today, over 50,000 people have viewed those PHCs, and I am so excited about sharing this for I know definitely, at home point in time in the last four years, it would have been helpful for someone and save a life.

Lagos State currently have over 300 Primary Health Centers which I still feel it is not enough for us to really achieve Universal Health Care Coverage. Some of those PHCs however, needs infrastructural development and human resources to operate efficiently, just to mention a few of the challenges in the health system, not just in Lagos but across the entire country.

P.S: I believe in innovation and collaboration for health system strengthening, together we can do more to reduce to inequity in our health system and give access quality care to everyone, everywhere.