TELEHEALTH IN NIGERIA: A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Public health care delivery in Nigeria is almost in shambles while access to private health facilities is almost beyond the reach of the middle class. This easily explains the resort to medical tourism by the wealthy in Nigeria. Telehealth has been seen by many as a ray of light at the end of the tunnel for healthcare delivery in Nigeria. Simply, telehealth is leveraging on the internet to deliver healthcare services to those in need of them. The target of this paper is an attempt to appraise the prospects and challenges of telehealth in Nigeria; existing laws regulating telehealth in Nigeria, the legal framework for telehealth in India and see how telehealth can be legally regulated to improve healthcare delivery in Nigeria.