Re-imagining the need for good hospital services and health care administration in catholic hospitals in Africa: The Nigerian case

The importance of health care services and its management in Africa, particularly Nigeria today, and beyond cannot be overemphasized. This essay uses historical, pastoral and pragmatic approaches to revisits the place of healthcare policies and regulations in Nigeria as a case study. It stresses theologically, and pastorally the need for hospital coordinators to be acquainted with the fundamentals of health care administration, and ethics of organizations of hospital and health care services. These include acquaintance with medical-legal issues for the good of not only of the Church in Nigeria, but society at large.