Olororunnimbe Mamora, minister of
state for health, says President Muhammadu Buhari has resolved to curb medical
tourism.
NAN reports that Mamora spoke on
Monday in Abuja when a team from CPL Medical Group Limited, a local engineering
company engaged in the rehabilitation of teaching hospitals in the country,
paid him a visit.
In 2017, Buhari spent about three
months in London on medical vacation. And he has made frequent trips to the UK
on ”private visits” believed to be for medical reasons
In August, the president said the
country loses about N400 billion to medical tourism annually.
The minister said hospital
environment and bad attitude of workers are largely responsible for medical
tourism in the country.
“President Mohammadu Buhari has
resolved to curb medical tourism by supporting initiatives from individuals and
groups,” Mamora said.
“We are focused on improving working
conditions in the hospitals because medical tourism is not necessarily an
outcome of lack of medical equipment. It encompasses factors like lack of
conducive hospital environment and poor attitude of health workers towards
health care delivery.”
He assured Nigerians that the
federal government was working towards entrenching the right standards in terms
of attitudinal change and procurement of equipment.
He said the responsibility of the
health ministry is to formulate government policies on health while
implementation involved relevant stakeholders,
so that the sector could move to the next level.
He expressed delight at the
progress reported by the team in the implementation of the various stages of
engagement with the presidency, adding that government is partnering the
Infrastructure Regulatory Commission to ensure best practices in healthcare
delivery.
Earlier, Albert Awofisayo,
chairman of CPL, gave an update on the status of the third phase of the federal
government and the group’s partnership on the special presidential intervention
project to advance the tertiary health sector in the country.
The chairman solicited
government’s support towards the successful implementation of the
rehabilitation of the 22 federal university teaching hospitals.
He said the group also planned to
construct a green-field 500-bed ‘Federal Centre of Medical Excellence’ in Abuja
with the collaboration of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.
“We are partnering with major
hospitals across five continents for the health outfit which will be called
Mayo clinics,” he said.
He appealed that the project be
considered as strategic by the administration of the president.
He pledged that the standard of
services to be provided by the proposed 500-bed centre would be of “best global
standard”.
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