Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has knocked President Muhammadu Buhari for junketing to London, United Kingdom while his government failed to build any standard hospital in Nigeria for over seven years in office. Sowore, while addressing Nigerian pharmacists on Thursday at the 95th annual pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria held at Crispan Suites and Events Centre, Rayfield, Jos, Plateau State capital, said that the Buahri-led government failed Nigerians in the healthcare sector.
Buhari Government Has Failed On Healthcare; Forced Over 6000 Pharmacists, 8000 Doctors To Relocate Abroad – AAC Presidential Candidate, SoworeHe said that the Buahri-led government failed Nigerians in the healthcare sector.
According to Sowore, although Buhari knew from the beginning of his administration that he needed a world class standard hospital for medical services, he rather chose to patronise the UK, leaving over 200 million Nigerians to languish in the country with a dilapidated, non-functional healthcare system.
Berating President Buhari for his incessant foreign medical trips while Nigeria’s healthcare system got rotten on a daily basis, Sowore affirmed his determination to revive Nigeria’s health sector if elected in 2023, the #RevolutionNow convener said, “I am a presidential candidate that has said that any healthcare problem that Nigerian doctors and pharmacists cannot take care of, that healthcare problem better kill me. That is my promise to you today.
Sowore decried the high rate of exodus of Nigeria’s medical experts, saying “One thing that we must all agree is that Nigeria has failed us. Your president was saying that over 6,000 pharmacists have left . I think since the end of COVID-19, some 8,000 doctors have left. We can't count how many nurses who have left.
“This country has had a president who died in office. For five months our president was in a hospital in Saudi Arabia. You would think that the next presidents, who of course know that they are not too well, could help us build hospitals in this country, so that in case of emergency, they could be attended to, but as you know, they have learned nothing and they have forgotten nothing.
“Out of 177 countries in the world, Nigeria ranks 144 in healthcare performance. Today, we have nothing that could be called healthcare.”
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