TUC asks Buhari to stop Nigerians from medical tourism
January 24, 2016.
The Trade Union Congress, TUC, on Sunday, warned the Nigerian government to discourage the Nigerians from embarking on medical tourism with the excuse of travelling to treat ailments that can effectively be handled by hospitals in the country.
The TUC also slammed government for taking reactionary steps in cases of health emergencies instead of being pro-active.
It governments at the federal, state and local levels as well as stakeholders in the health sector to redouble their efforts to ensure that emerging and re-emerging infections and diseases like the Lassa fever that has claimed many lives in the recent past, are drastically curbed.
“If the recent report on medical tourism as said by the Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire is anything to go by, it just does not make any sense that over $1bn is being spent by Nigerians on medical tourism abroad annually for illnesses that our tertiary hospitals can handle.
“This administration of President Muhammadu Buhari must discourage the practice. Government has to make health care delivery available to majority of Nigerians,” the TUC said in a statement signed by its President, Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama, and its Secretary-General, Comrade (Barr.) Musa Lawal.
“It is our thinking that experiences of the past should by now make the leadership pro-active enough instead of the usual reactive measures.
January 24, 2016.
The Trade Union Congress, TUC, on Sunday, warned the Nigerian government to discourage the Nigerians from embarking on medical tourism with the excuse of travelling to treat ailments that can effectively be handled by hospitals in the country.
The TUC also slammed government for taking reactionary steps in cases of health emergencies instead of being pro-active.
It governments at the federal, state and local levels as well as stakeholders in the health sector to redouble their efforts to ensure that emerging and re-emerging infections and diseases like the Lassa fever that has claimed many lives in the recent past, are drastically curbed.
“If the recent report on medical tourism as said by the Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire is anything to go by, it just does not make any sense that over $1bn is being spent by Nigerians on medical tourism abroad annually for illnesses that our tertiary hospitals can handle.
“This administration of President Muhammadu Buhari must discourage the practice. Government has to make health care delivery available to majority of Nigerians,” the TUC said in a statement signed by its President, Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama, and its Secretary-General, Comrade (Barr.) Musa Lawal.
“It is our thinking that experiences of the past should by now make the leadership pro-active enough instead of the usual reactive measures.
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