Bridging the gap between medical experts and patients 🏥Dr. Gbemisola Boyede of Ask The Paediatricians - Get Together

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Today we're interviewing Dr. Gbemisola Boyede, the founder of " Ask The Paediatricians ," an online medical education community that can offer all of us some much-needed inspiration in the time of COVID-19. In Dr. Gbemi's home country of Nigeria, the child mortality rates are high. But what causes these deaths isn't a lack of cost-effective treatments for common diseases. It's a geographic and information gap between parents and practitioners that leaves many parents uninformed and without access to experts who can treat their children. Dr. Gbemi saw this problem manifesting online. When everyday people offered up false remedies for each others kids, she'd find herself intervening. Playing whack-a-mole with each of these threads wasn't going to work, so she opened the ‘Ask The Paediatricians’ Facebook group. Its mission is to educate regular parents by giving them direct access to medical practitioners. The group grew quickly and organically. Today there are more than 2,000 medical professionals who login to help more than 580,000 parents with their medical questions. Dr.

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