IYABO OBASANJO

IYABO OBASANJO replied to "Abortion Care in Stressed Settings" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

Maggie, I agree completely with your comments on what to do in such environment and also your hope for a solution. In many stressed situations the lives of girls are so miserable you cant even blame mothers so much for trying to avoid such misery for their progeny. I wish ...

IYABO OBASANJO replied to ""Member Spotlight: Evelyn Castle and eHealth Nigeria"." in the Health IT community.

Evelyn, Great comments. In my experience, health workers are some of the most overlooked part of the health system. Everyoone says how they dont turn up in rural areas and are rude to patients but nobody ever asks about their wellbeing. Also, it extends to how NIgerians underrate other Nigerians ...

IYABO OBASANJO replied to ""Member Spotlight: Evelyn Castle and eHealth Nigeria"." in the Health IT community.

Evelyn, Two good information from your repy. 1. The training of healthcare workers is effective,i.e. they write everything down although there is no process to review what is written (lots of potential there) 2. MSS is having some impact, ie more of such can be done and more innovation along ...

IYABO OBASANJO replied to ""Member Spotlight: Evelyn Castle and eHealth Nigeria"." in the Health IT community.

Sandeep, Your idea is very important. Its possible that same mistakes are repeated over and over because people dont know what others have done. There is the MHealth Alliance under WHO but I dont how much information they have about everything going on everywhere.

IYABO OBASANJO replied to ""Member Spotlight: Evelyn Castle and eHealth Nigeria"." in the Health IT community.

Kurfi, Thanks for the advice. I already did some work on maternal health in Northern Nigeria and actually the Midwifery Service Scheme was something I initiated in a discussion with Amina Ibrahim (MDG Advisor to the President). I organized an annual awareness program on maternal mortality in Abuja with NGOs ...