Group Demands Increased Health Sector Investment To End Medical Tourism

Passing On of Former Nigerian President at London Hospital Part of “tide of medical tourism”: Catholic Archbishop

The passing on of the immediate former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, at a London health facility in the United Kingdom (UK) is part of the “tide of medical tourism” in the West African nation, Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins of the country’s Lagos Catholic Archdiocese has lamented. In his Tuesday, July 15 statement in which he implores that God grants the late former President “eternal rest and consolation to all who are saddened by …

Group Demands Increased Health Sector Investment To End Medical Tourism

Nigerian leaders have been charged to prioritise the nation’s health sector to reduce the high rate of medical tourism by the country’s present and past leaders. Those who were interviewed by THE WHISTLER on Tuesday expressed worries that a majority of well-to-do Nigerians have no confidence in the nation’s medical facilities. The founder of the Grassroots Initiative for Social Change, Nze Kanayo Chukwumezie, told our correspondent that the deve…

FLASHBACK: In 2016, Buhari Banned Medical Tourism. EFCC Later Froze Patience Jonathan's $15m for Medical Bill

As of December 4, 2022, Buhari had spent a combined total of 225 days out of the country for medical reasons alone.