Traveling Abroad for Treatment: President Buhari Speaks on Medical Tourism
- President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that medical tourism will soon be a thing of the past in Nigeria
- The president said this when he performed the groundbreaking for the construction of the Administrative/Senate Building, College of Medicine building in Benue
- Meanwhile, he said his administration recently approved the sum of N3billion as a high-impact intervention fund through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund) for FUHSO
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Nigerians will soon witness a true change if the words of President Muhammadu Buhari is to be believed.
This come as President Muhammadu Buhari expressed optimism that the nation’s desire to achieve medical manpower in order to curb medical tourism would soon be realised, Daily Trust reports.
The president stated this when he performed the groundbreaking for the construction of the Administrative/Senate Building, College of Medicine building and Principal Officers Quarters at the permanent site of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO) in Otukpo, Benue State.
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Buhari who was represented by the Minister of Education, Prof. Adamu Adamu, noted that he was impressed that the university’s management had hit the ground running and has no doubt that the desired impact of producing high-level medical manpower as well as curbing medical tourism will be achieved in no distant time.
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He said his administration recently approved the sum of N3billion as a high-impact intervention fund through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund) for FUHSO to further enhance infrastructural development that will provide enabling environment for teaching, learning, research and innovation.
PYO Global commends Osinbajo for undergoing surgical procedure in Nigeria
The PYO Global group has commended Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo for carrying out his thigh surgery in Nigeria.
The group commended the vice president in a statement sent to Legit.ng by its deputy national coordinator, Temilade Okesanjo, on Monday, July 18.
Part of the statement read:
“We want to use this medium to join well-meaning Nigerians, individuals and groups, to commend His Excellency, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, for trusting local doctors and Nigeria’s medical facilities in Nigeria for the surgical procedure he underwent a few days ago.
“That the vice president submitted himself to a surgical procedure in a hospital at home in Nigeria is indeed a fresh and welcome development, especially with the prevalence of medical tourism by many of Nigeria’s political leaders and elites, who prefer to go abroad and other Western countries for sundry medical procedures and common treatments.
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