We consider the term ‘medical tourism’ to be abhorrent and in bad taste. Tourism is normally associated with leisure, relaxation, fun and pleasure. Those who engage in tourism are usually those who have met basic existential needs and can afford the luxury of travel and adventure. A significant percentage of Nigerians who seek solutions to their medical challenges abroad are certainly not doing so for fun or pleasure. They cannot in any meaningful sense be described as tourists.


Community development could be attributed to the presence of ultramodern infrastructures that would have meaningful impact on the lives of the people in that community, but when a particular developmental structure in a community is generating so much controversies, questions are bound to be asked by the public, in order to alleviate the fears of the people residing in that community.
This is the case of Primus International Super Specialist Hospital, an ultramodern hospital in Karu community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, where so many allegations have been generated by some media reports to heighten the fears of people patronising the well-equipped hospital an alternative to high profile Nigerians involved in medical tourism to other parts of the world.


With the controversial reports about the hospital and the rumours surrounding the hospital, with some saying that instead of being the answer to many questions, it has been alleged to have become a threat to the lives of Nigerians which is not truth in anyway. From all indications, the health condition in Nigeria is highly deplorable. Among the most common diseases in Nigeria are malaria, guinea worm, pneumonia, measles, gonorrhoea, schistosomiasis, typhoid, tuberculosis, chicken pox, diarrhoea and, more recently, AIDS. The hospital was established to treat these patients in Nigeria considering the cost and inconveniences in traveling abroad.


Mrs. Rukayya, commended the staff of the hospital for their comprehensive medical attention to patients, saying she did not believe she could have get that kind of treatment, if she had obliged to the advice from her friends to travel abroad for the replacement of her knee cap.
“The treatment I got here is very good, I have been here since last year June, I was operated on the October 18 for replacement of Knee-cap by Dr. R. P. Singh and three days ago, I was operated for ovarian cyst. I am so happy now and I am okay. I want wanted to go abroad, so one of my sisters advised me to come to this Karu Hospital that it is an Indian Hospital and that they are very good when they do their jobs. I have also seen many people that they successfully conducted operation on. “My sister went to Egypt to change her knee cap on her husband’s advice but after the surgery in Egypt she cannot move the legs. She did physiotherapy somewhere for one month but after spending N300, 000 for that one month, the legs still could not move. But when she came here, the first day after the physiotherapy, the feet started moving,” she said.
Abbah Abacha, son of former Nigeria’s Head of State, late Gen. Sani Abacha condemned allegations made against the hospital, commending the medical personnel in the hospital for being up to task in delivering their medical responsibilities to patients, saying that there was no way any person that had received treatment from the hospital would go out to discredit the job done in the hospital.

“I was involved in a road accident and had problems with my neck. Initially I was rushed to a clinic before I was later brought to this hospital. The management seems to be quite up to task and I have seen how efficient they are taking care of patients and they do it diligently,” he said.
The hospital has 8 dialysis machines, advance CT Scan, MRI 1.5 Tesla, 4 operation theatres, digital x-ray machines, a state of the art radiotherapy, mammography and intensive care unit that can meet the solution to most health challenges that make Nigerians abroad.
Primus International Super Speciality Hospital Abuja “LIFE, HOPE, CARE” has brought life, hope and care to the good people of Nigeria a quality health assurance.

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