Provide Healthcare, PDP Tells Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday described President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment against oversea’s medical treatment by Nigerians as self-indicting and raises public apprehensions on high-level deceits of Buhari’s government.

PDP, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said that it was ridiculous that a President who patronises foreign hospitals and whose administration has failed to provide adequate healthcare in his country would turn around to pontificate against foreign medical treatments.

The statement said: “While the PDP do not approve of proliferated foreign medical tourism, especially by leaders and public office holders, the party holds that a leader who has failed to lead by example and whose government has neglected and wrecked the healthcare systems, lacks all rectitude to issue directives against foreign treatment.”

Consequently, the PDP urged President Buhari to show example by patronizing a Nigerian public hospital on his next medical appointment so that he can experience the healthcare reality that Nigerians have been subjected to under his government.

According to PDP, “our health system has suffered untold neglect under his watch, leading to dilapidated infrastructure, empty drug shelves, decrepit and worn-out equipment, brain drain and a demoralized workforce worse than his 1983 recollections.

“It is even more disheartening that all the investments and robust programmes of successive PDP administration, including the comprehensive National Strategic Health Development Plan, Saving One Million Lives Initiatives, National Health Insurance Scheme, among others, have been degraded and impaired by the dysfunctional APC administration.”