SIR: Total ban on medical treatment abroad is unwarranted. Even some Americans go overseas, including China and India, wherever they find solutions to certain medical challenges. When University of Ilorin paid for me to go to India (Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad), I met some South Africans there as well. What we should ban is abuse.

No nation has all the solutions, but Nigeria’s rulers and investors should provide health facilities to minimize the need for treatment abroad.

Many thieves in public offices take undue advantage to siphon money, but total ban of treatment abroad is not the solution; let’s tighten restrictions. Pray it is not your turn or someone dear to you need to be flown overseas for medical treatment.
• Pius Abioje,
University of Ilorin