Dr. Jude-Harris A. Adeghe has spent his career creating and managing hospitals in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. Adeghe began realizing that the many health care options available in Nigeria-including medical clinics, medical laboratory services, physiotherapy clinics, and pharmacies-were startlingly alike. There was no variation, and patients looking for unique services were out of luck. Creative solutions are badly needed in Nigeria.
Adeghe is now offering his expertise to any ambitious health care practitioners in Nigeria who want to begin their own health care organization or other services. He combines practical advice in starting a business, with industry-specific secrets of success.
Adeghe teaches readers how to create the optimal organizational structures for health care businesses and to push innovation and commitment to quality in their practices.
While Adeghe has tailored his advice to entrepreneurial doctors and health care practitioners in Nigeria, it can be used as a foundation for beginning a business in many other African countries. He addresses health care problems that governments in Africa face, including inadequate funding, poor physical infrastructure, and a lack of effective regulation. Adeghe shows practitioners how to respond to these challenges and provide excellent health care to their patients.
About the Author: Dr. Jude-Harris A. Adeghe, MBBS, PhD, FRCOG, has seen great success as a health care entrepreneur. He serves as CEO for St. Jude Hospitals and Clinics, which operates hospitals in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. In addition to working in the business of health care, Adeghe is a consultant in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive medicine.
Adeghe graduated from the University of Nigeria Medical School in Enugu, Nigeria. He worked on his obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive medicine specialties while in the United Kingdom and received a PhD from the University of Birmingham.
Adeghe worked for ten years as a consultant for the National Health Service before leaving to start his own hospital, St. Jude's Women's Hospital in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Adeghe is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He is married and has three children.
