Yaradua Goes For Health Check Up In Germany?

Is that an admission the health system he presides over is not fit for purpose?

How about leading by example?

Nigeria: President Yar'Adua Signs 2008 Budget, Leaves for Germany

http://allafrica.com/stories/200804141813.html
14 April 2008
Posted to the web 14 April 2008

Abuja

The 2008 Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly was formally signed into law on Monday April 14 at the Presidential Villa by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.

President Yar'dua's assent to the bill was witnessed by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Usman Bayero Nafada, amongst others.

 
Speaking at the occasion, the President said that he expects all agencies of the Federal Government to implement the 2008 budget with "the highest sense of responsibility and with total deference to due process".

In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Communications, Mr Olusegun Adeniyi, President Yar'Adua pledged that every effort to ensure that actual results, commensurate with the resources provided, were achieved with the 2008 budget, the main thrust of which, he said, is to deliver on the Administration's promise of poverty alleviation and pursue its seven-point agenda.

Meanwhile, the President will leave for Wiesbaden, Germany later today to see his private physicians for a medical review of an indisposition believed to be due to an allergic reaction.

He is expected back in the country before the weekend.

he is obviously laundering money also, in the name of sickness. My biggest grouse is that the religious leaders cheer them on and pretend they know nothing about this.

There is no doubt that many Africans have an Obsession with Western Products from Education to Football.

There will always be some cases when the medical expertise needed may not be available locally for some ailments but the general attitude of rich Nigerians is to go abroad for the slightest medical discomfort.

Look at the case of Kanu Heart Foundation, It has heped many families with treatment of heart ailments of their loved ones but as we speak little or nothing is being done to have a local hospital take care of the patients but they prefer to send the patients abroad. If the K.H.F builds it's own hospital  or partners a local hospital, more will be done for the people with heart ailments.

The health care of Nigerians should be both a Public & Private concern.

u  sounded very funny with that response of yours, how do you mean?

all traveling expenses for Nigerian government officials are usually paid by public funds.  he would be accompanied to Europe by staff whose welfare are paid by public funds. this is absurd in whatever way u think of it.

If na you, you go go to any hospital for Nigeria?  Leading by example ko, dying by example ni. So those doctors and nurses will operate on him without gloves or electricitymopping sweat from their eyebrows as they work in the deadly humidity of the roach infested theatres/Operating Rooms crawling round with termites and lizards?

Have you been in any Nigerian Hospital recently? Never mind those ones that were built for cosmetic reasons to show pictures to the outside world in Lagos and Abuja.  They have no qualified personnel to even hasten your departure from this planet!

An oil producing country that employs humans to wipe sweat and snort from the faces of so-called doctors while the butcher people in the so called residential real estate property turned hospitals.  Any hospital you visityou will find "cupboards and wardrobes", even sinks and bathtubs in the doctors' offices to let you know that that was someone's house prior to the conversion of a make swiftmedical center or cemetary.  Looking in the back of the property, you will discover many tombstones to also let you know that most of the ancestors of the original owners of the building have been laid to rest there.

Or maybe victims of malpractice still considered missing by the worried family members left behind in the villages!

You think Yar'adua is that daft?

I would rather take ma chances with the native doctors thank you!

We're saying the same thing thank you.

Well, unfortunately, its not only Govt money, it's also tax payers money, public funds, and precious govt/offical public time that is being spent on all these foreign travels. Much as we wish the president well in his health, no well-meaning, patriotic Nigerian will be happy to hear that about all these flying abroad for medical treatment. Height of hypocrisy. He has had a year now in office to have at least put the Abuja hospital in such a hi-tech state that a foreign trip would be unneccesary, but here we are, all talk and no action.

Plus 8yrs as Katsina state governor.

speaks so much about his performance. after 11 months, his country's hospitals can't help him!

Yar' adua is die     

yes now! it has to be germany. perhaps he'll get a pedicure in london while he's at it. i wonder how these mad men feel going for CHECKUPS abroad; thereby admitting their inability to provide ONE decent hospital in nigeria with all our oil money. may he decide to fly to germany when he has a heart attack or massive stroke!

please don't ask about his vision. that is all we have been hearing about since his campaign. none is yet to materialise. rather he is revoking the on-going projects we have been using to console ourselves. i'm sure he'll have a laryng-vocalchords-whatever check up while in germany. get a specialist to check him well well, so he can lecture us some more.

bulls, t!

He was Governor of Katsina State for 8 Years before Aso Rock. There is still something wrong there. Why in all that time did he not think to have a hospital of the same caliber or close  constructed in Katsina???

You can't have a world-class hospital in a cesspit of a nation.

Lets say it costs $100m to build one.Remember you have costly maintenance to undertake to retain standards and you also have to hire top notch medical and other personnel to run it.

As a Gov,you also have other issues that are no less important demanding resources.What about providing world class water facilities,what about education,hospitals and clinics throughout the state,e.t.c? At the end,you are left with no choice but to split your meager resources in order to meet the various needs.

Its better to spend $100m across board-building small clinics,schools and water facilities-than to dole out a whopping amount to build a hospital of the same standard as he visits in Europe.Actually,its your kind of thinking that is behind the phenomenon of 'white elephant' projects which dot the landscape of Nigeria.