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the healthcare sectors of many of these countries. The governments of developing countries like Nigeria in particular, should seriously encourage the adoption of this technology in its public health sector as a solution to its human resource constraints, as its national populace continues to soar compared to its healthcare worker population, which continues to dwindle. Developing countries will also need to address their other prevailing socio economic challenges, which may hamper the uptake of developing and applying AI tools. These include issues relating to the infrastructural deficits required for AI systems, including constant electricity supply and high-powered internet. The nations also need to focus on developing policies and securing sustained financing for these emerging technologies to bloom to ensure their long-term success, which is required to digitize healthcare and AI developments. The regulatory framework that is to be developed to regulate AI tools should also take cognizance of existing criminal and civil laws while ensuring a just application of AI tools, preventing instances of perverted use of AI tools, including introducing social policing and other unfair practices, as may be seen in some countries in the world today. Addressing these issues and adopting the recommendations in this paper can impact the lives of many individuals and accelerate access to healthcare by properly adopting AI to address the challenges developing nations currently face regarding their healthcare sector. These countries may wish to adopt the recommendations in this paper to tackle these issues. However, these countries should be cognizant of their distinct national peculiarities and, as such, tailor their AI regulation and application to healthcare to accommodate this fact.

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