Tunji Alausa, minister of state for health, says people are travelling from Europe, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa to access healthcare services in Nigeria.
Speaking during an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday, Alausa
said it is affordable to undergo surgical procedures in Nigeria.
The minister said the country has over 900 aesthetic
hospitals across all states.
He said the government has allocated “dedicated funds” and
also solicited partnerships to improve primary healthcare centres and insurance
coverage.
“Go to the hospital
in Lagos, people are coming from India, sub-Saharan Africa, and even Europe to
come and get health care in Nigeria,” the minister said.
“Getting surgical operations is cheaper; you will be glad to
know that today we have almost 900 aesthetic hospitals all around Nigeria.
“People are coming to get plastic surgeries. Go to LUTH
today at the cancer centre, NSIA LUTH cancer centre has state-of-the-art
equipment, whatever you can get anywhere in the world.
“We have the linear
accelerator; they have everything there. People are coming from sub-Saharan
Africa to get cancer treatment.
“We are moving all over the country. This is not only Lagos
alone; we are moving to rural areas. We have dedicated funds, and we are
aligning what we have in the basic healthcare provision fund, which has more
funding now, with our development partners.
“We are aligning more and collaborating more to direct these
funds to our primary healthcare centre. We are also directing a lot of these
funds to our national health insurance agency to increase coverage.
“Mr President has mandated us to increase coverage from
about seven million to about 50 million people to have health insurance in the
next two to three years.
“This marks the
highest budget allocation for the health sector in almost 24 years.”
Tunji Alausa, Where are you coming from? From Nigeria and which ministry are you defending? You are so laughable.
ReplyDeleteThis man your very funny, who paid you to come and say this?
ReplyDeleteDid you released that your embarrassing yourself to the international community?
BUT he's not lying. while the Nigerian health sector might not be where it's supposed to be, I have people in the UK and even Canada that complain about how hard it is to see a doctor and some also especially in the UK come back home for medical checks
ReplyDeleteOne of my friends from USA called me in Lagos Nigeria enquiring as regards the cost of tooth extraction in Lagos I told him it's 8k at ikotun and he said it's ₦250,000 in Maryland USA and he will postpone the tooth extraction until he comes back to Nigeria
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