President Visits Foreign Doctors, While Nigerians Die In Mogue Public Hospitals.

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently on vacation in London which started on Friday 06 February 2016. The president also is scheduled to meet his private doctors who he has been patronising since 1978 as he claims.


While the President should be commended for doing the needful and handing over to his Number 2 and vice-president, Prof Osibanjo, unlike what was obtainable in the past where the ill president(Umaru Musa Yar'Adua) left the country for weeks without handing over to his Vice President. Such action of the president speaks volumes and portrays him in the light of a man who respects the rule of law.



The sad story in the news is that the president had the effrontery to tell Nigerians he patronises foreign hospital's and doctors while he preaches "change"and claims to be the messiah of the most populous black African nation on earth. The writer is not trying to say that it is unlawful or bad to visit foreign hospital's rather when you look at the state of our Nigerian government owned hospital's you ask yourself if they are hospital's or mogue's.

"Heath they say is wealth" but that isn't the case in Nigeria as patients die often in hospital's as a result of power outrage and non-availability of medical equipments . Stories abound of endless strikes by medical doctors and other medical workers as a result of unpaid or low salary. Most hospital's do not even have enough bed space to accommodate patients and there are either no fuel or vehicles to power or pick emergency victims .

Also it is callous on the part of the president to have dashed out of the country to fix his health while the country battles the "Lassa Fever" outbreak . This has killed more than 20 Nigerian's and shows no sign of slowing down any time soon. The president has to lead by example and must first fix all the public hospitals as Nigerians have lost faith in them .

It is no surprise the president is receiving the best medical treatment abroad as this is the norm in the country and the question should be what stops African leaders from fixing their hospitals or health system? Or is it because the know they can easily be flown abroad on private jets at the slightest sign of ill health? What has president Buhari done to improve our health care system since he was sworn in in May 2016. This is a clear slap on the intelligence of Nigerians by telling them you have come to "change " the system yet you jet out at the slightest headache to get the best doctors to treat you . Is it more than common knowledge that if these leaders fix the hospitals , the incentive to go abroad for medical check up will be limited?

President Buhari does not yet realise the magnitude of responsibility in his hands ever since he assumed office  and while resting abroad he should realise he cannot always fool us forever. "A word is enough for the wise" they say .