FOREIGN MEDICAL TRIPS: FG MOVES TO CHECKMATE PUBLIC SERVANTS

The Federal Government has decided to put a stop to public servants’ penchant for seeking medical treatment abroad, President Goodluck Jonathan said in Port Harcourt yesterday.
President Jonathan dropped the hint while speaking at the 36th Annual General Meeting and International Scientific Conference of the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPMPN) in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Jonathan stated that medical tourism is one of the inevitable fallouts from globalization that has transformed the world into the global village, but lamented that it (medical tourism) was being misconstrued by many Nigerians.
“While some of our compatriots look at medical tourism out of Nigeria from the perspective that it is indicative of inadequacies in our healthcare delivery system, a recent analysis by the federal ministry of health brought to light that majority of the conditions for which Nigerian public servants sought healthcare (diagnosis and treatment) abroad for a three-year period, can adequately be handled in Nigeria,” he said
Source: New Telegraph