Managing health records at a Nigerian cosmopolitan city: The pros and cons

Rasaq Adetona Adio

Abstract


Managing patients’ health records is achallenging one especially in a Nigerian cosmopolitan city where we have patients and people with diverse background as usually depicted in hospital attendance. The diversities incosmopolitan cities include culture, religious,ethnicity, political differences and socioeconomic dichotomy. Cosmopolitan city as a city with many cultures and groups in it and often referred to as a"cultured" city1. Examples of these cities areLondon, Paris, New York, Abuja, Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Pretoria and so on. There is nogainsaying in the fact that hospitals in Cosmopolitan cities are facing complex situations occasioned by different interest groups with different cultures and socioeconomic factors.

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