CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Health is generally said to be wealth. To acquire this wealth either for personal or national needs, one require to be healthy hence the need for adequate medicare especially in the area of diagnosis. Since there is a good relationship between the job output and the health of workers, a good medicare is vital. Unfortunately, in most developing nations including Nigeria, adequate medicare is lacking due to low standard of technologies know how and manual handling of most medical problem. As observed by Iyama H.C. and John D.C. very often, people in developing countries who are critical ill are rushed to abroad for special treatment because it is felt that medical facilities at home is inadequate. This is simply because computer aided medicare has become a reality in many developed countries. It is known fact that the production of qualify medical doctors, medical lab scientists and other medical personnel is on the increase but this is not enough to meet the health need of the increasing population. The return of patient to a doctors samples to lab scientists is still high. This situation creates problem, because proper and adequate medical attention to patient is far fetched.
