Nigeria: Inadequate Infrastructure – Nigeria Fails to Stop N1.4trn Loss to Medical Tourism

The federal government’s failure to implement the promised reform of the nation’s health sector has created a financing gap that affects all aspects of the healthcare system, including infrastructure, workforce, medical supplies, and services, leading to inadequate healthcare delivery across the country.

Both the immediate past and current administrations committed to affordable healthcare delivery to the public, a promise that has remained unfulfilled.

LEADERSHIP reports that the federal government had listed health sector reform as one of the “ongoing transactions” on the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) priority list for immediate intervention. Years after, nothing or very little has been done.

On the BPE website, the…