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

Abstract

Managing patients’ health records is a challenging one especially in a Nigerian cosmopolitan city where we have patients and people with diverse background as usually depicted in hospital attendance. The diversities in cosmopolitan 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 are London, Paris, New York, Abuja, Lagos, Port- Harcourt, Pretoria and so on. There is no gainsaying in the fact that hospitals in Cosmopolitan cities are facing complex situations occasioned by different interest groups with different cultures and socioeconomic factors.