President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigerians need to stop going abroad for treatment, adding that it is not good for the country.
Buhari said this on Friday at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi during the inauguration and handover of completed projects to the hospital’s management.
The President was represented at the event by the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu.
“Nigerians have suffered so much going abroad for medical treatment. This is not good for us and it must stop because we can’t afford it again,” he said.
President Buhari, in his first tenure, travelled severally to the United Kingdom for medical treatment.
He explained that the project was executed to check flooding and gully erosion in the hospital.
Buhari said the siting of the project in Ebonyi signalled the end of an era where some parts of the country were neglected as a result of corruption and favouritism.
“We have paid very serious attention to the health of our people and will continue to do so. The projects you celebrate their completion today were seriously affecting the workings of this teaching hospital. But today, we can say their completion have started helping to improve on the performance and welfare of both the staff and patients of this hospital,” he said.
