(Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to London for a “routine” medical check-up two days before the country’s doctors go on strike over unpaid salaries. Buhari, 78, is set to leave the country Tuesday after meeting the nation’s security chiefs, spokesman Femi Adesina said in an emailed statement Monday. The trip will last until the second week of April. It’s Buhari’s first medical trip abroad since the pandemic, which stripped much of Africa’s elite of the option of flying to the U.K., France or India to see a doctor.

While Buhari consults with doctors in London, millions in Africa’s most populous country will be left without access to medical treatment from April 1, when doctors will stop going to work. They’re complaining about the non-payment of medical interns for months and demanding an upward review of hazard allowances and Covid-19 care incentives, according to a statement issued by the National Association of Resident Doctors on March 29.

Nigerians have for decades suffered from an inadequately funded health-care system, squalid clinics and hospitals, and poorly paid and overworked health care workers who frequently move abroad for employment. There are at least 8,178 medical doctors of Nigerian origin working in the U.K., according to data on the U.K. General Medical Council website, a more 50% increase from 2015. The exodus has worsened health care in a country that has one doctor for every 5,000 people, according to the Nigeria Medical Association.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/nigeria-s-buhari-takes-medical-trip-abroad-before-doctor-strike

Very shameful. Running to another country for checkups while your own country health system isn't something to write home about.

Frontpage Lalasticlala,Mynd44,Domnique

It's a good thing that the world sees how wicked and evil the zoo president is.


Shame on all those who voted this useless dunce a second time.

BMC crew come and defend your master.

Yes now....

The truth is that majority of Nigerians are just too docile.

Anigreat:






It's a good thing that the world sees how wicked and evil the zoo president is.


Shame on all those who voted this useless dunce a second time.

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If it was Jonathan's government, Bmc miscreants would have insulted him and called him names.. Hypocrites!

Jack005:
If it was Jonathan's government, Bmc miscreants would have insulted him and called him names.. Hypocrites!

Even General Ironsi in 1966 used to go to England for medical treatment and also sent his children to boarding school there as well. The rot did not start today.

Dreambeat:
The truth is that majority of Nigerians are just too docile.

And willing to sell their soul for peanuts to their oppressors.

This is the most hypocritical regime we have witnessed in this Corntree.


You are fighting corruption and call yourself Mr integrity yet you are setting a bad example.
Later Dem go tell us "buy Naija grow Naija".

Hypocrites!!

sunnytitilayi:
Buhari has no interest in Nigeria, Nigerian youths our future is in our hands.

The youths have sold their soul.

And tinubu who is almost same age with buhari wants to be president in 2023

God forbid.

This old fools should get lost already so the youths could grow .

PrinceOfLagos:
And tinubu who is almost same age with buhari wants to be president in 2023

God forbid.

This old fools should get lost already so the youths could grow .

Bola "Pablo Escobar" Tinubu, just came back from his France medical trip a few months ago paid by Lagosians courtesy of the pension bill he passed in 2007, that is yet to be repealed.

RuudVanNisteroy:

Bola "Pablo Escobar" Tinubu, just came back from his France medical trip a few months ago paid by Lagosians courtesy of the pension bill he passed in 2007, that is yet to be repealed.

That thief called tinubu won't be allowed anywhere close to our national coffers in 2023 .

PrinceOfLagos:

That thief called tinubu won't be allowed anywhere close to our national coffers in 2023 .

According to TMC crew he is the best thing to happen to the country since Agege bread.