President, Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, has called for the use of blockchain technology to proffer technical solutions to chain health record storage and access to drive e-health in Nigeria.
He is achieving this by partnering with Decentralised Electronic Health Record (DEHR), developers of a mobile healthcare app and online platform, with a focus on Africa and headquartered in Abuja Nigeria. According to NARD boss, who is a specialist registrar in the department of Orthopaedic surgery at National Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi (NOHI), Lagos, with special interest in Pediatric Orthopaedics, “Everyone deserves to live in a world that affords them good healthcare safety, dignity and respect. To make sure that Africa is not forgotten or left behind we have made it a duty and obligation to introduce advanced technological healthcare delivery and management system across the country. We will partner with key actors and institutions both public and private to improve accessibility, credibility and efficiency.