The Commonwealth Medical Association, CMA, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to henceforth, use the Aso Rock Clinic, for any further medical examination.
The CMA, ordered Buhari to lead by example, and desist from travelling abroad for medical treatment.
They said upgrading the Clinic and the President’s subsequent patronage of the centre, would be the only way to justify the billions of naira budgeted annually for the running of the Clinic.
The Vice President, Commonwealth Medical Association, Osahon Enabulele, while speaking on the President’s recent medical vacation to the United Kingdom, where he spent 103 days, told Saturday PUNCH, that it was highly embarrassing for political office holders in the country to seek medical care abroad.
Recall, that the Commonwealth Medical Association is a non-governmental organisation set up to assist and strengthen the capacities of national medical associations of countries within the Commonwealth, to improve the health, well-being, and human rights of their countries and communities.
Enabulele, who is also an Adviser to the World Medical Association, said: “Absolutely unfortunate, that while other economies were deriving benefits from their inbound medical tourism, Nigeria had been losing humongous sums of money in foreign exchange, on account of its leaders’ medical tourism to other countries.”
“The country needs to think of how to reverse this unfortunate trend. Nigeria is in a recession, and this is not the time for us to drain our economy by political office holders, whose expenses are borne by the State. I hope and pray that we will have the right leadership that will act by example to sort this out, because that is the first step.
“This would give greater confidence to other Nigerians to explore the available medical services in the country. Leaders at all levels need to look beyond their individualism to say, ‘If I want people to utilise health care services in my country, I have to show that I believe in those facilities by utilising them’.
“So, I will urge all political holders, including Mr. President, to try to live by example. The President should try as much as possible, irrespective of what may be the problem, to see how he can stay in the country, and see how he can get his medical needs attended to at the State House Clinic, even if it means importing facilities that are not available here.
“In any case, if N3.16bn was budgeted for the State House Clinic in 2016 and 2017, I will expect that the money is supposed to improve the Clinic to a global standard that will have most of all the needed facilities and equipment. There is no reason whatsoever to say you are looking somewhere else for medical care. It is increasingly embarrassing to see public office holders go outside the shores of Nigeria to look for care.”
Enabulele added: “The law as it currently exists in our country, states very clearly that except in exceptional cases that have been so determined by medical boards, and with approval by the Minister of Health, no political office holder has any right to be sponsored with taxpayers’ resources for any foreign medical trip. So, even the laws are there.
“Nigerian Doctors are capable, and some of those Nigerian Doctors abroad, were trained in Nigeria. We have good Experts and formidable medical expertise with good intellectual capital base in Nigeria. No country has it all, but countries devise means of closing the gaps.”
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