After spending about 104 days in London for the treatment of an undisclosed ailment, President Muhammadu Buhari recently returned to Nigeria on Saturday, August 19.
As a result, The Nigerian Medical Association welcomed Buhari back to the country and asked him to revamp the health sector – The association argues that revamping the sector would spare Nigerians the hassles of travelling abroad on medical tourism.
Doctors under the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure he looks into the crises that have engulfed the country’s health sector.
Channels Television reports that the NMA urged the president to urgently replicate in Nigeria the health facilities he benefited from in London while he was on medical vacation.
According to the report, the NMA said the country needed to upgrade its health facilities to international standards. It argued that this would save the country and citizens the high amount of foreign exchange spent on medical tourism abroad.
This was made known through a statement given by the Dr Mike Ogirima, the President of NMA in Kaduna.
Ogirima said; “The president has firsthand experience of what we have been talking about: upgrading Nigerian hospitals and that is why we are calling on him that based on his experience, he should replicate what he has seen in London to take care of the masses.”
NMA further pleaded with the government to implement the ‘Abuja Declaration’ which recommended at least 15 percent annual budgetary allocations to the health sector.
It asked the government to work towards improving the welfare of healthcare personnel.
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