Invest in Equipment and Manpower - Alayaki tells Buhari

The Secretary General, Nigeria Medical Association, Dr.
Adewunmi Alayaki, has advised the president-elect, Maj.
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to invest in modern
equipment, training of doctors and to ensure constant
power supply in order to make Nigeria’s health care
delivery one of the best in the world.
Alayaki said this in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Friday in an
interview with our correspondent.
He said, “We believe the new government will be able to
give us a health sector that will attract even foreigners to
come here for their health care.
“The president -elect should look into the health of the
citizens to give them the best rather than going abroad for
treatment.
“He should give us the equipment, the manpower and the
energy that will run hospitals in the right direction.
“Nigeria is lagging behind in modern equipment. If you
travel out to most of these European and Asian countries,
you will see the type of equipment used which we believe
Nigerian government can procure for our hospitals so that
the common man can be assisted.”
Alayaki bemoaned the practice whereby Nigerian trained
doctors travel abroad and never stayed back in the country
to attend to health care needs of the people.
While he commended President Goodluck Jonathan for
allowing the vote of Nigerians to count, he, however,
maintained that the health sector in the country had really
gone down the drain and needed to be rescued urgently.
Alayaki urged Nigerians to forget the past and support the
president-elect as he assumed the mantle of office on May
29.
He said, “We should forget the past because every Nigerian
belongs to one party or the other but whenever there is a
change of government, let us give that government a
chance of its four years.
“I want to appeal to everybody that we should give the
government of the day the privilege to perform within the
four years and if it fails to perform, that same process that
was used to bring them in will be used to send them out.”