Sunday 15 April 2012

FG Ban on Public Officers from Traveling Abroad for Medical Care


Will this law ever see the light of day?
Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu  According to the Vanguard News report published earlier yesterday ,the Minister said that he is preparing a memo for the Federal Executive Council, which will stop public officers from wasting public funds on foreign medical trips.

The only exception, according to him, will be a situation where the capacity to handle such a medical problem does not exist in Nigeria.

He added that he was preparing a memo which will soon be presented to the council to stop public officers from foreign medical treatment and that if the public officer insists that he doesn’t want treatment in Nigeria, he will not be permitted to use public funds for that so long as it can be done in Nigeria.


I think there are more important issues to be dealt with than this: like dealing with issues why Doctors in Lagos are on strike and providing better quality health care. My peeps don’t you agree?



9 comments:

Anonymous said...

What da h*** is he talking abt,he will even be the 1st to break the law, how is he going to stop d mighty from travelling abroad for treament....so they call themselves those in d govt

Ugonna said...

LOL! if u ask me, the health minister just want to be in the news....people are dying bc of the strike and this d best solution he can come up with

Anonymous said...

Durrrrrrrrr!

Biodun Ajuwon said...

its a good initiative but will they comply with it.

Emoedume Daniel said...

D FGN should stop tell us abt law they will impose which dey cannot implement.

Anonymous said...

So how does this solve the power failure in our hospitals, better equipment for surgery,clean environment etc?

Kemdi said...

Even India that is a developing country like ours, foreign countries travel all d way for treatment, why cant Nigeria be like that, afterall, there is money here and we are also a developing nation too.

Rita Isienyi said...

Abeg leave matter for mathias,hw many times dey go say somtin and dey go do am?

Folake Salami said...

It is a Good idea