Lagos, Nigeria

The AI scribe built for Lagos clinicians

From private practice in Lekki to teaching hospitals in Idi-Araba, cut your daily charting time in half.

Lagos concentrates a huge share of Nigeria's clinical workload into a small geographic footprint — private clinics in Lekki and Victoria Island, group practices in Ikeja, mission and teaching hospitals scattered across the mainland. Consultations routinely blend English with Yoruba and, increasingly, other Nigerian languages as patients travel in from across the country. ScribeMDPro was designed for exactly this environment: an ambient AI that keeps up with high-throughput sessions, understands multilingual consultation flow, and returns a formal English SOAP note within seconds of the visit ending. Lagos clinicians get their evenings back.

Documentation challenges we solve

  • Extremely high daily patient volumes across private and public sector clinics
  • Multilingual consultations blending English, Yoruba and other languages
  • Traffic congestion means late-running clinics compress charting time further

What clinicians gain

  • Native support for Yoruba/English code-switching
  • Ambient capture designed for high-throughput Lagos outpatient sessions
  • Runs on the phone or laptop you already own — no clinic IT rollout required

How it works

  1. Step 1
    Start recording in your Lagos clinic

    Open ScribeMDPro on any device with a microphone — no local install.

  2. Step 2
    Consult naturally

    Speak with the patient the way you always do; the ambient AI listens.

  3. Step 3
    Structured SOAP note

    A formatted note appears within seconds of the visit ending.

  4. Step 4
    Export or push to EMR

    Copy into your EMR, download PDF, or share as a referral letter.

How documentation actually works in a Lagos clinic

Lagos consultations rarely look like the textbook 15-minute appointment. A Lekki private clinic may run a booked list that overruns by two hours because patients arrive late from Third Mainland Bridge traffic. A general outpatient session at a teaching hospital on the mainland can see a clinician through fifty or more patients before lunch. In both settings the note is the thing that gets sacrificed: written in shorthand during the visit, then reconstructed from memory at 9pm.

The records themselves are split across systems. Many private practices in Ikeja, Lekki and Victoria Island run a local EMR or a spreadsheet-and-folder hybrid; HMO-funded visits need a legible clinical justification attached to the claim; teaching hospitals still keep substantial paper case notes alongside digital summaries. Whatever the destination, the requirement is the same — a structured, formal English note that a colleague, an HMO reviewer or a medico-legal reader can follow.

ScribeMDPro sits before all of that. It listens to the consultation as it happens, including the parts spoken in Yoruba or Nigerian Pidgin, and returns a formal English SOAP draft seconds after the visit ends. You review it, correct anything you disagree with, and copy or export it into whichever record system that clinic uses. Nothing needs to be installed and no clinic-wide IT project is required to start.

Private clinics — Lekki, VI, Ikoyi

Fee-paying and HMO patients, high documentation expectations, frequent referral letters to specialists. The Assessment and Plan block is written so it can be pasted straight into a referral or an HMO justification.

Group practices and HMO-heavy clinics — Ikeja, Surulere

Claims get queried when the clinical rationale is thin. A structured note with explicit findings, working diagnosis and reasoning reduces back-and-forth with the HMO desk.

Teaching and general hospitals — Idi-Araba, Ikeja GRA

Very high throughput clinics where notes are triaged. Ambient capture keeps a full record of encounters you would otherwise summarise in two lines.

Telemedicine and home-visit practice

Works over a phone microphone during a video or phone consultation, and records offline on a home visit, uploading when you are back on a stable connection.

Yoruba, Pidgin and Hausa in the room — clinical English in the note

Lagos consultations code-switch constantly. English-only scribes mangle these lines or drop them entirely. ScribeMDPro routes African-language audio to a dedicated speech model and then drafts the clinical content in formal English. These examples show the pattern; your own note wording will follow the consultation.

Yoruba

Said in the room: Inú mi ń rùn mí láti ọjọ́ méta sẹ́yìn, ó sì máa ń burú tí mo bá jẹun.

Drafted in the note: Patient reports epigastric pain for three days, worse after meals.

Nigerian Pidgin

Said in the room: The medicine wey dem give me last month no gree work, I still dey cough for night.

Drafted in the note: Reports no symptomatic improvement on the medication prescribed one month ago; nocturnal cough persists.

Hausa

Said in the room: Ina jin ciwon kai da zazzabi tun jiya da yamma.

Drafted in the note: Reports headache and fever with onset yesterday evening.

Sample note from a Lagos general outpatient visit

A consultation conducted mainly in Yoruba with some English, in a busy mainland outpatient clinic. This is the kind of draft the AI returns; the clinician reviews and edits before it enters the record.

SUBJECTIVE
Adult patient presents with a three-day history of epigastric pain, described as burning and worse after meals. Associated early satiety and occasional nausea. No vomiting, no haematemesis, no melaena. Has been taking an over-the-counter antacid with partial, short-lived relief. Reports regular use of ibuprofen for recurrent knee pain over the past several weeks. No fever. No weight loss.

OBJECTIVE
Alert, not in distress. Mildly tender in the epigastrium on deep palpation, no guarding or rebound. No hepatosplenomegaly. Bowel sounds normal. Chest clear, heart sounds normal.

ASSESSMENT
Dyspepsia, likely NSAID-associated gastritis. Peptic ulcer disease to be excluded if symptoms persist or alarm features develop.

PLAN
1. Stop ibuprofen; discussed alternative analgesia for knee pain.
2. Commence proton pump inhibitor for four weeks.
3. H. pylori testing requested.
4. Advised on meal timing and avoidance of known triggers.
5. Alarm symptoms explained: vomiting blood, black stools, difficulty swallowing, unintentional weight loss — return immediately if any occur.
6. Review in four weeks, or sooner if symptoms worsen.

What ScribeMDPro costs a Lagos clinician

Plans are priced in US dollars and charged to your card, so the naira amount that leaves your account depends on your bank's card rate on the billing date. Nigerian cards on domestic-only limits may need a dollar-enabled card or a virtual card.

PlanPrice (USD)What you pay locally
Free trial$0No card required. Enough full SOAP notes to test it across a real clinic session.
Premium — monthly$49 / monthBilled in USD; your bank converts at its prevailing card rate that day.
Premium — yearly$500 / yearTwo months cheaper than paying monthly, and one conversion instead of twelve.
Clinic / hospitalCustomInvoiced arrangements for multi-clinician practices — talk to us about local payment terms.

We deliberately do not publish a fixed naira figure: the card rate moves and a stale number would mislead you. Check the exact charge at checkout, where the amount is shown before you confirm.

Frequently asked questions

Which Lagos clinicians use ScribeMDPro?

GPs, family physicians, cardiologists, paediatricians and other specialists across private practice and teaching hospitals.

Does it work in Yoruba?

Yes — Yoruba consultations are routed to a dedicated speech model and translated into formal English for the note.

Can it handle a busy afternoon clinic?

Yes. Ambient recording keeps up even when the consultation moves quickly between problems.

Is patient data secure?

Audio is processed transiently and never sold or reused for training.

Can a Lagos clinic put several doctors on one account?

Yes. Clinic plans let you invite colleagues, keep each clinician's notes private to them, and manage access and billing centrally.

Will the note support an HMO claim?

The Assessment and Plan are written with explicit findings and clinical reasoning, which is what HMO reviewers query most often. You review and edit before submitting.

Does it work when the network is unstable?

Recording continues on your device and the upload resumes once connectivity returns, so a dropped connection mid-consultation does not lose the encounter.

How much does it cost in naira?

Plans are billed in US dollars ($49/month or $500/year) and charged to your card, so the naira amount depends on your bank's card rate that day. The exact charge is shown at checkout.

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