FG to Ban Medical Treatment Abroad

The Federal Government has said that plans have been concluded to place a ban on Nigerians seeking medical treatment that could be handled by some public and private health facilities in the country abroad. The Minister of Health, Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu, who stated this Monday in Asaba, the Delta State capital, during the opening ceremony of the first Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) National Health Summit, said government was no longer comfortable that Nigerians rush abroad unnecessarily for health challenges that could be handled in the nation’s public and private facilities. Chukwu in his key note address said: “The Federal Ministry of Health has also directed that on no account should cases which could be handled by some of our private health facilities be referred from government teaching hospitals to private hospitals overseas.”