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Nigeria: FG to Ban Foreign Medical Treatment
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Daily Champion (Lagos)
1 August 2008
Posted to the web 1 August 2008
Raymond Gukas
Jos
Senator Gyang Dantong has said that Nigerians bent ongoing abroad for medical treatment might not be allowed to do so unless their foreign trip is approved by the Minister of Health.
He assured that very soon a national hospital will be established to handle serious health related cases that might be referred from various teaching hospitals across the country, saying that a law being canvassed will deal with health workers who may be found misbehaving in hospitals.
Senator Dantong who is also the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Health said he felt fulfilled when he presented the Health Bill on the floor of the Senate. He said the bill prescribed certain punishment for health workers who misbehave and it also covered the issue of reinsurance
The lawmaker while speaking in Jos, Plateau state capital said the Nation's democracy is fast growing, adding that if democracy remained stable for another eight years, the problem of water and food shortage, bad roads and others would be addressed.
Describing the 40 years of military rule in Nigeria as a wasteful period of non-progress and development, he said eight years of democratic governance has proved to be more fruitful in the country .
He debunked the rumour making the round that each senator will be given the sum of N500m as constituency allowance, saying they were asked to identify projects of priority in their respective constituencies while the executive arm of government will execute them.
According to him, non of the senators will collect one kobo from the presidency in the name of constituency allowance, describing the rumour as a product of some mischief makers who will want to lower the reputation of senators.
According to him, Nigerians don't believe in pure legislation, stressing that " if we continue with democracy for another eight years, the people by then will be more enlightened such that they will not regard boreholes as the responsibilities of legislators".
.Senator Dantong disclosed that the last administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo introduced a wonderful health policy of building a health centre in each of the local government areas of the federation but the present administration of President Umaru Yar'Adua cancelled it on the basis that the last administration did not provide for their funding of the centres, adding that the development really baffled him as it denied the rural dwellers access to good health care.
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While commenting on the on-going constituency delineation in the state, he said his constituency contributed over 50 per cent of the total population of the state and as such deserved four additional federal and state constituencies.
i have read some write-ups, people requesting to go abroad for medical treatments. that is why orji kalu, yar,adua and other state governors did not develope the hospitals in their states. the ban on foreign medical travel,will promote a growth of local hospitals, equivalent to the ones we rush to abroad. if poor masses can survive in nigeria, big men will survive too. no mincing words here. the ban should be total. no one goes abroad for medical treatment, so that our local health care delivery should be good for all and sundry. if not, let all man die... [Read Full Text]
When you read comments like this credited to Senator Gyang Dantong you are left with thinking that there is hope for Nigeria after all. I have written eloquently about foreign medical treatment by the privileged and a bill like this will give hope to the masses. Senator Gyang Dantong has extended his arm of friendship to Nigerians in Diaspora who are writing from their domicile exile about what is wrong with Nigeria.
On that note, could Senator Gyang Dantong please help to re-introduce the Freedom of Information Bill only then could we feel that the N/A is ready for prime... [Read Full Text]
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