Why telemedicine is a plus for every country - Ibidapo-Obe

Oyetokunbo Ibidapo-Obe is a medical doctor, working as an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Her postgraduate training includes three years of family medicine residency and one year of surgical obstetrics fellowship. She is also a qualified telemedicine physician and expert. In this interview with ZEBULON AGOMUO, Editor, Ibidapo-Obe spoke on the challenges of the health sector and practitioners in Nigeria; the cause of brain drain; what must be done to improve the sector and retain medical practitioners; the benefits of telemedicine to every country, among other issues. I do appreciate that there are lots of challenges facing the healthcare sector in Nigeria. In the same vein, I believe collaboration between the private sector and the government can find a solution to all of these problems. I think it is important to focus on the practical steps we can take to improve the system rather than push the blame back and forth.