Abstract
This study evaluated the effects of British intervention on medical healthcare services on the British West Africa and its effects on Okun-Yorubaland around the Middle-belt of Nigeria. It argued that the British Government officially took over the administration of Nigeria in 1900. However, its administrative impact on social infrastructural development such as health sector, was nearly a tale of neglect up to the 1920s. This major deficiency is attributable to virulent epidemics and the outbreak of World War I, which characterized the British social engagements with her colonies in the opening decades of the twentieth century. This study uses historical approach to evaluate the exogenous and endogenous factors that caused inevitable change in the passivity of the British government to intervene on Nigeria‟s healthcare challenges. It synchronized the overlapping effects on the Okun-Yoruba people in Central Nigeria during the period of study.
Keywords: Nigeria, Okun-Yoruba, Health, Hospital, Disease, British, West Africa.
DOI: 10.36349/sokotojh.2021.v10i01.009
