‘Nigerians spend estimated $1bn yearly on medical care abroad’

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Nigerians spend an estimated $1 billion yearly on medical care abroad for conditions that can be effectively treated within their country, Dr. Christopher Otabor, the Chief Consultant Orthopeadics Surgeon and Chief Medical Director of Alliance Hospital, Abuja, has said.

for conditions that can be effectively treated within their country, Dr. Christopher Otabor, the Chief Consultant Orthopeadics Surgeon and Chief Medical Director of Alliance Hospital, Abuja, has said.

The medical expert, while thanking the organisers for the honour, disclosed that the award was the 15th he has so far received this year alone. Otabor said Alliance Hospital was committed to giving Nigerians a comprehensive care obtainable in developed world but called for support for private hospitals in the country through emplacement of a conductive operating environment by the government.

 

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