Why Nigeria's startups are the answer its healthcare system has been waiting for

Jul 24, 2019

A doctor attends to a child at a relief centre for flood victims in Patani community in Nigeria's Delta state October 14, 2012. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on October 11 visited some of the hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the country's worst flooding in at least five decades, calling it a 'national disaster'. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: DISASTER HEALTH) - GM1E8AE1N9001

Startups identifying gaps in the Nigerian healthcare chain are winning global investor attention. Image: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

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