I am interested in the part after a good idea

I am a doctor in Lagos, and I run business development and partnerships at Dokitami, a doctor-led telehealth company. The work is one problem stated many ways: a health service can be clinically sound, competently built and fairly priced, and still never reach the person who needs it.

What sits in between is distribution. In Nigeria that means physical places and the people inside them — pharmacies, supermarkets, gyms, salons, estates, workplaces — and it runs on trust, incentives and follow-through rather than on a funnel diagram. I build the route and make it visible enough to correct.

Medicine taught me the discipline the commercial work runs on. A treatment plan is only useful if it survives cost, access, adherence and the rest of a patient’s life. A market model is only useful if the person expected to carry it can use it on an ordinary Tuesday.

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Dr Tolulope Ajidahun, physician and Head of Business Development and Partnerships at Dokitami, Lagos

On the writing

The writing came out of a gap between two rooms. Clinicians are told a technology will change their work, in language written for investors. People building the technology are told about African healthcare in language written for donors.

I write for the person in the middle, who has to decide something on Monday. Some of it is clinical, some is operating notes, and some has nothing to do with either.

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Career

  • 2026 —

    Head of Business Development & Partnerships

    Dokitami, Lagos

    Built the department from nothing: recruitment, onboarding, training, territory allocation, reporting, performance management, field execution. I own the partnership lifecycle from market mapping through to expansion.

  • 2026 —

    Medical Domain Expert

    SME Careers

    Evaluating AI systems in healthcare. Finding hallucinations, reasoning failures and unsafe recommendations, and writing the expert feedback that goes back into training.

  • 2025 – 2026

    Healthcare Strategy Consultant

    Independent, Lagos

    Market entry, customer segmentation and pilot design for digital-health products moving into the Nigerian provider market, with stakeholder research across providers, pharmacies and employers.

  • 2025 – 2026

    Medical Officer, Clinical Operations

    Palm Avenue Primary Health Centre, Mushin

    Forty to sixty patients a day: acute and chronic disease, triage, minor procedures, referrals. Interim Domestic & Sexual Violence Officer.

  • 2024 – 2025

    House Officer

    Alimosho General Hospital, Lagos

    Internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, psychiatry, emergency medicine. Elected House Officer Representative.

  • Licensed physician, Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria
  • MBBS, Olabisi Onabanjo University
  • Best Student in Psychiatry
  • Distinction in Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Questions

Who is Dr Tolu Ajidahun?
A licensed physician in Lagos, Nigeria, registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, and Head of Business Development & Partnerships at Dokitami, a doctor-led Nigerian telehealth company. He builds healthcare distribution: partnership channels, field operations and the commercial systems underneath them.
What does he do day to day?
He owns the partnership lifecycle for a telehealth company in Lagos, from market mapping and outreach through negotiation, activation, performance review and expansion. He built the department from nothing, including recruitment, training, territory allocation and reporting, and has run a field team of more than fifty people across Lagos.
What problems does he take on?
Commercial problems in health and consumer businesses: a partner network that produces no measurable demand, acquisition costs rising without explanation, high field activity with low reliable output, or a health product that needs a credible route to customers in Nigeria.
Is he a doctor or a business person?
Both, and the combination is the point. He trained in medicine at Olabisi Onabanjo University and practised as a medical officer at a Lagos primary health centre, seeing forty to sixty patients a day. That grounding is what lets him tell when a commercial plan will fall apart for a patient, a clinician or a frontline team.
Where does he work?
Lagos, Nigeria. The work spans Nigerian and wider African markets.
Does he write anywhere else?
He publishes essays at drtolu.com and through The Clinical Vector. His work has also appeared in iAfrica.

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