Lagos — COORDINATING Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Ali Pate, has said Nigeria loses about $2 billion yearly to medical tourism, saying the country must build health sovereignty and not rely on foreign care.
Pate said the lack of confidence in local healthcare and the citizenry’s inability to access quality health partly contributed to the figure.
Pate, represented by the Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Wasiu Adeyemo, stated this during the commissioning of Avon Medical Centre, a 50-bed speciality hospital in Surulere, Lagos.
However, he expressed optimism that Avon Medical Centre, among others, would reverse the trend, saying the government was also committed to revitalising…
