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The COVID-19 pandemic has served to save the Nigerian state of Niger N300 million (US$0.73 million), as the state paid for no outbound medical tourism in 2020.
According to the Niger State Commissioner for Health, Niger State saved over N300 million (US$0.73 million) that would have been spent on medical tourism in 2020.  Estimates of the cost of outbound medical tourism to the country overall vary from US$400 million to US$2 billion.
Niger State has spent the savings on reviving the medical system, in an attempt to reduce future outbound medical travel costs. The Niger State Commissioner made the problem very clear; âIn the Niger State Ministry of Health, we are trying to kill medical tourism abroad because if we do not kill it, it will kill the Ministry of Health. This is because the money taken for medical assistance abroad is taken from our overheads. It is horrible and has put the health sector in an emergency state. While domestic medical touris
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The Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal in Abuja has barred a medical doctor from practicing for life, while another one earned a six-month suspension.
The two medical practitioners were punished for gross negligence, incompetence and malpractice, the tribunal ruled, Punch is reporting.
Delivering his judgment on Thursday, chairman of the MDPDT, Prof. Abba Waziri Hassan, said the name of a Consultant Surgeon at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Prof. Sunday Elusoji, should be struck off the register of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
The interpretation of the verdict was that Elusoji had been barred for life from practicing as a medical doctor.
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Dear Àare Lanre-Ojo,
Thank you for your comment. However, the proper grammar is ‘you are even worse than Buhari’. When you have a negative comparison between two people, the word is worse. When it exceeds three, you can use worst.
Our administration built 165 almajiri schools, and 13 new universities and 1 specialised university. We did this because we were committed to educating Nigerians, like you.
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