title: Indigenous hospital technology in Nigeria: problems and recommendations.
abstract: In Nigeria, after gaining independence there arose a national desire for industrialization in order to reduce the high cost of sustaining national development. This desire has its accompanying problems which are examined with reference to indigenous hospital technology. Solutions to these problems are also suggested.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Musa
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009549:Nigeria; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*