Despite some private hospitals in Nigeria attaining world-class status and Nigerian doctors competing favourably with their foreign counterparts, the country’s past and present leaders have continued to shun Nigerian hospitals. Ejiofor Alike reports
Nigeria was thrown into mourning last Sunday when the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari was announced by his family.
His death at a London clinic, however, exposed the failure of successive Nigerian leaders to fix public hospitals and their apparent lack of faith in the country’s world-class private hospitals.
