Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday disclosed his administration’s plan to minimise the rate at which Nigerians seek medical care abroad. Fashola said the state government planned to cite a medical village for treatment of different ailments. According to him, the medical village would parade different cluster of specialists to take care of ailments that made Nigerians and Africans to seek treatment abroad.
Speaking when the management of the West African College of Surgeon led by its President, Prof. Harve Yangni-Angate, visited him at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, Fashola assured that the village would turn the state to medical hub.
The governor said: “With this, we will have a cluster of health practitioners. And I believe that this will help turn the state into medical hub for the country. “I believe that the objective to keep our people within the country especially within the West African sub-region whenever there is need for any serious surgical operation is realisable.
It is realisable in a very short time. “We initiated that policy in response to many of the Nigerian doctors who signified their interest of returning home, to establish their own medical outfit. “And I told them that we should get about a land that is about 20 hectares and divide it in order to accommodate all the medical experts. We have received a few applications from interested medical practitioners.”
Fashola, who likened the specialties of medical experts to a football game, said surgeons who perform complex surgeries deserve to be paid more. He said: “They could be paid on the basis of their skills.
They are professionals, marketing specialised skills and if you like the argument, not all football players earn the same wage, some score goals, some prevent them from coming in and some have other roles to play. Maybe there would be a base minimum and from there professionals must put their skills into competition and that is the way the industry grows”.
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