Nonso Bobby Fidelis Egemba popularly known as Aproko Doctor, and well known for giving out medical tips joined the #YourViewTVC ladies on some health talk.
Aproko Doctor whose real name is Chinonso Bobby Fidelis Egemba is a Nigerian medical doctor, Activist and social media personality. The Aproko Doctor brand combines years of medical experience leveraging social media for health education.
How did you become Aproko Doctor? How did that come about?
In 400Level when I was in school, I came across an old man, who had a stroke he went to the doctor and the doctor was like, these are the things you need to do to prevent the next stroke from happening and spent almost an hour.
Fortunately, I was heading to my final year and I was preparing for exams When I got back to the ward, here was this same old man with another stroke and this time he didn’t make it and it got me thinking, is it that this man did not understand what the doctor said and over time I got to realize that a lot of people are not well informed about their health and so how can I help pass across this message?
That’s why I decided to audition for radio and I was told I was not good enough. I decided to use the only tool I had in my hand which was social media.
I started from tweet and then making videos but we tried doing it in such a way that, it is easier to share because people don’t start looking for health information until they need it and at that point, it’s already too late so we decided to go before they need it.
Do you have that kind of attack where people think they know better?
Definitely, people have certain beliefs and a lot of what I say is backed by science and research.
One thing with science and research is that it leaves out anecdotal evidence.
