Why Your Hospital's Paper Records Are a Patient Safety Crisis

In a bustling Lagos teaching hospital,a junior doctor spends twenty minutes rifling through a stack of yellowed folders before she can locate the allergy history of a child arriving with wheezing. Across the country, similar scenes play out daily in Abuja clinics and Port Harcourt health centres, where paper‑based medical records are still the norm. The result is lost histories, delayed diagnoses, and avoidable risks