{"id":738414,"date":"2019-11-05T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/05\/buhari-committed-to-ending-medical-tourism-minister\/"},"modified":"2019-11-05T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:43:18","slug":"buhari-committed-to-ending-medical-tourism-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/05\/buhari-committed-to-ending-medical-tourism-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Committed To Ending Medical Tourism: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_716453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716453\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-716453\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Buhari.jpg\" alt=\"President Buhari\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-716453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Buhari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Olororunnimbe Mamora, minister of state for health, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is resolved to bring an end to medical tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Mamora said this on Monday in Abuja when a team from CPL Medical Group Limited, a local engineering company engaged in the rehabilitation of teaching hospitals in the country, paid him a visit, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister, hospital environment and bad attitude of workers were largely responsible for medical tourism in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Mohammadu Buhari has resolved to curb medical tourism by supporting initiatives from individuals and groups,\u201d Mamora said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are focused on improving working conditions in the hospitals because medical tourism is not necessarily an outcome of lack of medical equipment. It encompasses factors like lack of conducive hospital environment and poor attitude of health workers towards health care delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Atiku Defends Buhari\u2019s Economic Policies, Knocks Critics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He explained that the federal government was working towards entrenching the right standards in terms of attitudinal change and procurement of equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Buhari spent about three months in London on medical vacation in 2017 \u2014 which were followed by frequent \u2018private trips\u2019 to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Buhari Olororunnimbe Mamora, minister of state for health, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is resolved to bring an end to medical tourism. Mamora said this on Monday in Abuja when a team from CPL Medical Group Limited, a local engineering company engaged in the rehabilitation of teaching hospitals in the country, paid him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari Committed To Ending Medical Tourism: Minister - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/05\/buhari-committed-to-ending-medical-tourism-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Buhari Committed To Ending Medical Tourism: Minister - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"President Buhari Olororunnimbe Mamora, minister of state for health, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is resolved to bring an end to medical tourism. 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