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How to Build People-Centered Healthcare System for Africans From the Bottom Up
How to Build People-Centered Healthcare System for Africans From the Bottom Up
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Rivers State, one of Nigeria’s oil-rich states, has formalized community input into health policy, revitalized dozens of clinics, and deployed AI diagnostics... 10.07.2025, Sputnik Africa
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How to Build People-Centered Healthcare System for Africans From the Bottom Up
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Rivers State, one of Nigeria’s oil-rich states, has formalized community input into health policy, revitalized dozens of clinics, and deployed AI diagnostics for effective medical service provision accessible to all.
When Dr. Adaeze Oreh, Rivers State’s 27th Honourable Commissioner for Health, took office, she asserted her leadership ethos—a bold promise to rebuild medical care delivery from the ground up, swiftly transforming Nigeria’s medical frontier with a Midas touch that has become an exemplary template for the African health sector, and dismantling the walls of access inequity. Under Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s mandate to broaden critical-care capacity and deepen specialist services, she ushered in a new era—a transformative shift toward accessible, specialist-driven care and expanded intensive-care unit (ICU) capacity across Rivers State—by commissioning the Bori Zonal Hospital, the Prof. Kelsey Harrison Specialist Hospital, and the Dental, Maxillofacial, ENT & Ophthalmology annex at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, to mention but a few—each milestone a testament to her unwavering resolve to deliver hope, equity, and healing to every community.In an African Currents interview, Dr. Oreh explains how witnessing disparities in healthcare access during her training inspired her journey into healthcare reform and policy.Want to hear more from our guests? Catch the full conversation on the African Currents podcast, brought to you by Sputnik Africa.You’ll find our episodes not just on the website, but also on Telegram.► You can also stream our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, Pocket Casts, Afripods, Podcast Addict.► Check out all the episodes of African Currents.
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How to Build People-Centered Healthcare System for Africans From the Bottom Up
Rivers State, one of Nigeria’s oil-rich states, has formalized community input into health policy, revitalized dozens of clinics, and deployed AI diagnostics for effective medical service provision accessible to all.
When Dr. Adaeze Oreh, Rivers State’s 27th Honourable Commissioner for Health, took office, she asserted her leadership ethos—a bold promise to rebuild medical care delivery from the ground up, swiftly transforming Nigeria’s medical frontier with a Midas touch that has become an exemplary template for the African health sector, and dismantling the walls of access inequity.
Under Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s mandate to broaden critical-care capacity and deepen specialist services, she ushered in a new era—a transformative shift toward accessible, specialist-driven care and expanded intensive-care unit (ICU) capacity across Rivers State—by commissioning the Bori Zonal Hospital, the Prof. Kelsey Harrison Specialist Hospital, and the Dental, Maxillofacial, ENT & Ophthalmology annex at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, to mention but a few—each milestone a testament to her unwavering resolve to deliver hope, equity, and healing to every community.
In an African Currents interview, Dr. Oreh explains how witnessing disparities in healthcare access during her training inspired her journey into healthcare reform and policy.
"Starting out in medical school and being directly involved in patient care, I thought that my career trajectory was going to focus on clinical medicine [...]. I was inspired by many of my clinical professors and specialists, and I thought that that was where I would end up, so specifically in the field of cardiology or heart medicine. But somewhere along the line in medical school, I became more vividly confronted [with] and aware of the disparities in healthcare. So, when I say disparities, it's not particularly in the service delivery but in access," Dr. Oreh said.
Want to hear more from our guests? Catch the full conversation on the African Currents podcast, brought to you by Sputnik Africa.
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