Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas (ANPA) has tasked the Nigerian government to provide adequate infrastructure and other aspect needed surgically and medically to combat medical tourism.
Johnson Adeyanju, president, ANPA, said this during their annual medical mission to Nigeria in collaboration with First Consultant Hospital in Lagos recently.
He said, “Nigeria will need to invest in infrastructure, make sure enough training places for our graduating physician to practise, ensure that postgraduate training that we have in the country have enough people with good technical skills that can do some of the surgeries that is available, and make sure that the hospital that we have has the state-of-the-art technology to take care of the people who want to stay there.”
Speaking on their mission to Nigeria, he said “we are going to create awareness and attend to some cases at Freedom Park while some of our team member will also render some specialised care at Abuja before meeting with stakeholders in Nigerian healthcare.
“There are people from the streets of Lagos, family, brothers, sisters, sons who came in for surgical procedure and medical treatment, and we are very proud of the effort of our volunteers to have done a lot of job to ensure that Nigerians remain healthy.”
Jide idris, Lagos State commissioner for health, commended ANPA for the initiative, saying, “In this period of our time, we want Nigerians in Diaspora to join hands with us to raise the standard of living.
“So, we decided to form a kind of partnership with them as a state, and for a while we join them and attend their conference there and when they come back we organise a lot of activities, and is a way of welcoming them back home and making them feel acceptable because we recognised their effort.”
