Chidiebere Ibe, 25, of Nigeria hopes to improve medical education and health care with his textbook illustrations depicting Black skin.
Chidiebere Ibe talks with FOX Television Stations about his medical illustrations showing Black skin and how he hopes this will improve education and health care access.A Nigerian medical student hopes to revolutionize the industry after creating illustrations depicting Black skin.
Ibe is studying to be a pediatric neurosurgeon. He will start school next month at Kyiv Medical University in Ukraine. "There are situations where patients are misdiagnosed because the doctor or the physician were not trained in medical school how the skin conditions appear on Black skin," he added. "And because of this lack of training, there is a lot of health complications."
Ibe said many medical textbooks in Nigeria have illustrations only showing White skin. He hopes his illustrations will also improve health care equality for Black patients.
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