Coker added that the mobile device would help health workers in primary health centres to easily carry out risk assessment before it escalates to the local government level. It is a decision tree mobile application for health workers. “The mobile app will enable our health workers to easily do the risk assessment of patients at the primary health center before it escalates to the local government level,” she said. In his remarks, Dr Elijah Ogunsola, the Executive Secretary of Ogun Primary Health Care Development Board, commended the commissioner for evolving initiatives that would aid health workers. Ogunsola said that all primary health centres would use the mobile application to alert on any emergency.

Source: The Guardian March 02, 2020 15:00 UTC