…Five-kobo revolution proposed to rescue struggling health infrastructure
In the 1960s, when Nigeria’s public hospitals still gleamed with promise, a young man named Joe Okoro fell mysteriously ill in his hometown in Enugu State. For five long years, he moved from one native healer to another, swallowing herbs and reciting incantations, but his ailment worsened.
Then one day, his uncle decided to take him to University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, then regarded as one of the best hospitals in Africa. Within five days, the same illness that defied traditional medicine was cured.