gabe_logan:

definately, there should be free healthcare for all. as the saying goes, health is wealth, therefore a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. its just unfortunate that we have nutcases for leaders who are more concerned with lining their pockets with the nations commonwelath at the expense of the masses.

bawomolo:

free healthcare for a country of 140 million people. the same bunch of people that love to evade tax. dream on

Queenisha:

That's not even the issue.
Even if we start with just the most vulnerable (pregnant women and infants)
Can we even sustain it for any length of time

Kobojunkie:

I don't mean to hate but Nigeria is a country that is not ready for Free HealthCare at all. With people living right next to trash and teenagers sniffing the dumps for a high, such a system will end up bankrupt in a matter of weeks, assuming the government were to fund it with oil money. LMAO!!!

lucabrasi:

i wonder why some set of we nigerians will always chime in the negative 9 times out of ten each and every time, cuba has shanties and people living rough yet they have one of the best medical facilities in the world,india is one of the dirtiest countries in the world yet heart surgeries and other complicated surgeries is done routinely,so does it mean that because people are living next to thrash and teenagers are sniffing they do not qualify for health care??guess its the children living in ikoyi,lekki,aokoro,e.t.c who do not sniff or live next to thrash that are more qualified then
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if healthcare for all is the only achievement for the present administration,then nigerians will pray for them no matter how much money they v stolen,the problem is not the skills,funds or other logistics but the will to actually make it happen

madamkoko:

Free Healthcare in Nigeria CANNOT work.  

Meaning: FREE is not the issue but QUALITY Healthcare.

Poor people will continue to have access to rubbish, and rich people will continue to send their families abroad for treatment.

bawomolo:

cuban gdp per capita is about 4000 dollars while nigerian gdp per capita is about 1500 dollars. this is no comparison. cuba has more money to spend per head.

You are one ignatius woman - or man - or both - its people like you who sayd nothing can work in Nigeria

see yah head.

madamkoko
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Free Healthcare in Nigeria CANNOT work.  

Meaning: FREE is not the issue but QUALITY Healthcare.

Poor people will continue to have access to rubbish, and rich people will continue to send their families abroad for treatment.

EloSela:

I believe that Nigeria has more money than the Uk and they can easily afford to fund a healthcare system that would benefit the most vulnerable in society. However Nigerians (the politicians) have less sense than those in the UK).

The saying 'a fool and his money are easily parted' is quite apt when describing the government in Nigeria. How else would one describe the dismal state that the country is in despite generating billions upon billions of money through oil revenue a week? The UK doesn't even have a quarter of the money that Nigeria has yet the country can still manage to provide healthcare for its citizens, decent schools, basic resources, and good roads to say the least. Speaks volumes don't it?

lucabrasi:

yes and did you think of the diffrent vices that brought about the 1500 figure?how r bout corruption,nepotism,spending government revenue on misplaced priorities e.t.c plus we practice a totally diffrent form of government to cubas,  cuba doesnt have as much money to spend on each citizen that nigeria if we were properly governed or we had visionary leaders like castro

PapaBrowne:

@Lucabrasi
You are muddling up the need for quality health care infrastructure with the need for free health care.
Funnily, free health care would hamper the needed investment in health care infrastructure.Monies which would hitherto have been spent on building qualitative hospitals and buying equipments would now have to be spent on free health care.
Remember most of that money would be spent on treating people with easy to cure/avoidable diseases like malaria.