Why do leaders and presidents in Africa fly abroad for hospital treatment, especially to London and America? BattaBox presenters Yp Fluorin and Warri Pikin hit the streets of Lagos to find out.
“Our health sector is not okay today, but that’s not the reason our African leaders fly abroad for healthcare,” says one young Nigerian man. “They fly to foreign hospitals because they want to show us class, that they are at a level we simply cannot reach.”
The problem is that, whenever leaders across Africa are ill, they immediately fly abroad for treatment. This indicates two problems – one, that the healthcare systems in Africa are not good enough for our own presidents, and secondly, why do our own presidents not invest more money into our healthcare systems to ensure they are good enough – and what happens to the money they do invest?
For example, the presidential clinic in Nigeria’s Aso Rock, is supposed to be the pinnacle of healthcare in Nigeria, to care for our president, as well as training medical personnel. In the 2017, over 3 billion Naira was allocated to Nigeria’s State House Medical Centre. And, in the nation’s 2016 budget, the Aso Rock clinic was allocated N3.219 billion, which was also set to ensure the completion of on-going construction work, procurement of drugs and other medical equipment.
And, yet, Nigeria’s president Buhari recently spent 104 days in London for treatment. The Aso Rock hospital clinic equipment is apparently largely shutdown.
Nigeria’s health budget for 2017 is 4.17%. To put this in contest, the USA spends at least $7,000 per citizen, or about N3.5 million. In comparison, Nigeria will spend N1,688 per head for a whole year.
“We don’t have good infrastructure, no good hospitals, no good qualitative healthcare in Africa, so I think it’s not a welcome development,” says one young Nigerian lady. “We need a law that can put a stop to people going abroad for medical treatment, I think they would improve on our local hospitals.”
“Our politicians are just sell-outs,” says a young businessman. “They campaign and say they will change the system and improve hospitals, but then they sell-out.”
How do you feel about the state of Nigeria’s hospitals? Would you travel abroad to foreign hospitals?
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Pls people Buhari has cancer so stop saying it was headache and the cancer is in remission so that is why he is always going back for check ups.
Blue Phonixe if he has cancer you need to step down simple
True talk broda. Himself no go wan see fuck up nah. Imagine say dem dey operate the guy then NEPA carry light
So what of the ordinary citizens that have cancer too?
Good job guys👍🏾. Well as for me the leaders should stay back home and fix their hospitals and get treatment there. You coming over to abroad what about those other citizens that can’t travel??? Thief thief Nigeria leadersssss. Shame on you
I will love to be a Nigerian politician, go there and eat my own share from the National cakes, embezzles money and all that.. And at the end of the day.. There’s nothing the citizen will do than just keep talking and talking and talking.. before the end of my first term, sharing rice with an envelope, will do one or two roads and use that for campaign, even the money is their money (The Tax Payer Money) but obviously most Nigerians are MUMU, na talk talk den know, NO ACTION.
TruthIsBitter chai! See true talk 😭
The only problem I think Nigeria hospital has is that Nigeria hospital does not have all material that they use to treat people that has a sickness
All of these people complaining will still vote Buhari or Atiku come 2019, I just don’t get Nigerian especially the youths. When it time for them to make a choice concerning their future, they forget all their suffering and start remembering oh am Yoruba, oh am Igbo, oh am hausa,, oh am from the west, north, east when in reality we are all suffering . The politicians have been playing us for ever using tribalism and sectionalism and the reality is that hardship no get tribe o. If our head correct how can Buhari or Atiku be a choice ? I mean just ponder it
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BatterBox, this is one of your interesting episodes.
But people should realise that these people are not really going there for their health.
They are embezzling the country’s money to foreign land. That is what they are basically doing.
Don’t worry you’ll find out in couple of years.
You guys need to wake. They
Our leaders are not our problems, we the youths, put ourselves to this mess, if we stand for the best in the country, these mess will not happen. How many times have queen Elizabeth, come to Nigeria for herbal treatment the way buhari, fly to London from his backyard. The youths keep silent and their rights are deny from them. Nigeria youths don’t know their demands from the government.
Africa is sadly full of extreme oligarchies. You guys should really put the elites at the service of the population. Instead you have greedy bastards in power, who only favor their own pockets and big companies fron the Western World that take away your resources.
We are talking about Nigeria….
J. Kola I live in Spain and I consider my homeland pretty much an oligarchy in the way it favors the empresarial elites over the workers, the basic public services and the small business.
That girl just talking about “Die” 😂
i wish i can slap tf out them and they mommas and daddys mf eating a dog 1 day imma come see yall break yall mf necks to on god nigga just wait hoe