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Nigeria can be a medical hub with govt’s support, says Guild of Medical Directors

By Tayo Oredola
14 October 2015   |   11:23 pm
The president of the Guild of Medical Director (GMD), Dr. Tony E. Phillips has yesterday called on the government to provide an enabling template to support doctors in the country. He said this in an interview with The Guardian during the GMD’ s 23rd National Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference in Lagos State. According…

624x351xDr.-Achilefu-a-professor-of-radiology-and-biomedical-engineering.jpg.pagespeed.icThe president of the Guild of Medical Director (GMD), Dr. Tony E. Phillips has yesterday called on the government to provide an enabling template to support doctors in the country.

He said this in an interview with The Guardian during the GMD’ s 23rd National Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference in Lagos State.
According to Phillips, medical tourism is a horrible act and it is killing Nigeria in terms of foreign exchange, as well as downgrading the potentials of Nigerian doctors.

The GMD president remarked that “Most of the doctors abroad are Nigerians, but they can not come home and work because government have not produced an enabling template for them to work”. More over, Nigeria has the doctors with all the potentials, he added.

“If we look inward and position our doctors well, Nigeria will be come a medical hub for Africa”.

Phillips disclosed that, the Private medical sector renders 70 per cent of the health care in the country, with just 30 per cent from the public sector.

He pointed out that, the 70 per cent which government do not access is what has affected data of diseases they present to the world, which is incorrect, because the private sector is a critical sector, which needs to be considered.

When our correspondent enquired about the impact of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), which is a sub theme for the conference, Phillips responded saying,” The impact of the NHIS on the private sector is not encouraging because they have not spread the life properly. NHIS started well, but down the line it derailed because its leadership were a bit too selfish”.

He commended Government for embracing the Guild’s initiative which gave birth to the Public, Private, Partnership (PPP) to facilitate good data gathering and planning for good results.

The theme of the event, “combating the burden of non- communicable diseases in Nigeria through lifestyle changes” was on the backdrop of recent increase in non-communicable disease due to sedentary living.

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