The renowned physician said President Buhari should not be blamed for seeking medical attention abroad, adding that lack of equipment in Nigeria’s hospitals could send patients to early grave.
He further blamed politicians for the development, while noting that Nigerian doctors are the best in the world but cannot do well here because of the environment they find themselves.
He told Tribune, “It is true that Nigerian leaders prefer to seek treatment abroad, but not because they lack confidence in Nigerian medical experts. Instead, they lack confidence in the country’s poor medical system which they have politically put in place through the years.
“Many a time when Nigerian leaders run to India, England, Germany, USA, they still go there to meet their own Nigerian trained medical experts who are performing wonders in these countries that value Nigerian doctors who are lost to brain drain syndrome.
“Nigerian-trained doctors constitute one of the world’s best trained doctors. We are soundly trained. Kudos to our teachers and professors.
“Nigerian leaders go out to foreign countries because they are afraid to be victims of the systems they have created.
“For instance, President Mohammadu Buhari recently received treatment in London, not because he doesn’t have confidence in Nigerian medical experts, but because he knows too well that: functional equipment are lacking in all our Teaching Hospitals for the experts to work with.
“While receiving treatment, power may go off; drugs to be administered on him might have lost potency due to poor storage as a result incessant power outages; fake drugs abound in the country.”
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