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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti (30 December 1927 – 1 June 2003) was a paediatrician, activist and health minister of Nigeria.
Ransome-Kuti was a senior house officer at London's Great Ormond Street children hospital and locum house officer in neonatal paediatrics at Hammersmith...
19 de jun. de 2003 · Paediatrician who revolutionised health care in Nigeria and exposed the country's AIDS crisis. Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, who has died in a London hotel while attending a World Health Organization (WHO) conference, was one of Nigeria's foremost health experts.
Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was a leading figure in global health for several decades. A pioneer of primary health care, he was a proponent of an all-embracing system to provide heath care in an integrated way, rather than through vertical disease-specific programmes.
Olikoye Ransome Kuti used academia as his platform to stardom. He was Professor of Paediatrics and Primary Health Care at the University of Lagos where he taught me as a medical student in the late 1960s.
1 de jun. de 2003 · Professor Ransome–Kuti was one of Nigeria’s foremost health experts. A specialist in paediatrics, he burst into the national limelight when former military president General Ibrahim Babangida appointed him as health minister in 1985.
1 de jun. de 2003 · Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was a distinguished paediatrician and campaigner who revolutionised health care in his home country, Nigeria. He was born in Ijebu Ode, in the south west of the country, into an eminent family of preachers and teachers.
