Former Chairman of Abuja Medical Laboratory Scientists (AMLS), FCT chapter, Dr Ifeanyi Casmir, has described Nigeria’s health care system as a paradox saying that if the key capacities in the country were built and sustained on, it would have repositioned to become the hub of medical tourism.
In an exclusive interview, Casmir explained that “If you go to health facilities outside the shores of Nigeria you are going to certainly find Nigerian doctors providing care in other parts of the country.
“That simply means we have really cut out teeth’s as professionals to provide service globally and we are at the cutting edge of capacity and skills, unfortunately at home the story is not the same.
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According to him, the country had the capacity to produce vaccines, but as at today all the vaccines produced are imported but “then we were producing yellow fever vaccine for local use and export but today the capacity is lost” . “If you don’t have home grown capacities you are very vulnerable so Nigeria as a nation is vulnerable health wise because people can package anything and ship down to us here.
“The memories of the Pfizer vaccine scandals in Kano are still fresh in our memories that make us vulnerable. The long year of military rules introduced impunity in the Nigeria health sector destroyed the health care administrative system. “
The major challenge we had the Nigeria health system is the health care administrative system were hegemony and monolithic emphasis on a given profession is now robbing off on us. We have really misinterpreted globally as clinical governance to replace the health care administrative system.
“Almost 95 percent drugs in Nigeria are generic drugs produced from China, why can’t we build this capacity to produce it locally don’t we train pharmacists anymore we do , our pharmacists can compete favourable with their contemporaries anywhere in the world,” he said.
By: Adeola Tukuru
National Mirror News
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