At about 11 p.m. on a Lagos Island highway, Ibukun Tunde-Oni, a medical doctor, was involved in an accident that would expose the fragility of emergency healthcare in Nigeria. Despite being a doctor, he waited by the roadside for about three hours before an ambulance arrived. By then, it was about 2 a.m. and the ambulance drivers asked him where they should take him. Mr Tunde-Oni had suffered a cracked skull and urgently needed imaging. The accident also claimed the life of someone close to him. The experience, he said, reinforced his decision to develop technology that could help Nigerians…
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