The Nigerian Health Minister, Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole has opened up on why the President, Muhammadu Buhari had to fly out of the country for his medical treatment instead of staying in the country and having Nigerian doctors tend to his health.

Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole who also assured Nigerians and the international community that there is no cause for alarm over the president’s health noted that he chose to fly overseas to the UK because of his rapport with the foreign doctors.

While revealing the the president’s health issues are complex and need the expertise of his foreign doctors, the health minister said: “One thing we must realise is that health is a complex issue. There’s what we call patient-doctor relationship; there is also a bond between the patient and the doctor and these are things we can’t play with.”

The health minister who is a professor of surgery further added: “I used to have patients in Ibadan and they still call me, and say ‘we will like to see you’.



“Then I have to say no to them because I’m no longer available and ask, ‘why can’t you see somebody else?’ But many of them are reluctant to do so. That’s the complex thing about health.”



Read more at http://www.herald.ng/buhari-not-allow-nigerian-doctors-treat-health-minister/#LHZlUm0cvKOoQSwc.99

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President no wan risk him life with Nigerian hospitals esp public, imagine make them dey treat am
NEPA come take light during treatment
go fuy fefrol, filling station no get.. na den im go no say treatment with naija doctors na big risk esp public hospitals..

Ooooooooooooooooohhh... Which kind thing b dis na... Mods abeg enof of dis PMB health jare.. If dey like let dem use oyibo ifa priests or Indian Sango, dats their cup of tea. So dey can have Patient Doctor confidentiality but wen any other citizen tries to get confidential via a foreign medical trip, it's termed medical tourism... Like his aides and d govt have stated tym and tym again, HIS HEALTH, HIS BUSINESS....