#COVID19 is here to teach us a lesson; I hope we learn. Nigeria’s healthcare is unhealthy.But instead of fixing it, our rulers have been busy flying up & down abroad.
If we survive COVID-19, we need a law to restrict all public officials from seeking medical care abroad.
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With #COVID19, reality is upon us. No more running overseas for medical vacation. Our rulers cannot travel to the United Kingdom, United States of America or India anymore for medical care. These countries are also hanging on their last breath, battling to survive the pandemic.

Let’s give every Nigerian a space to live and a not chance to die.

Please RT. Thanks.

Runcie C.W. Chidebe
Cancer Control Advocate.

Nigeria has one of the worst cancer survival rates in the world, with only 2 to 3 cancer radiotherapy machines working at any particular time and less than 70 oncologists for a population of over 200 million. #COVID19

Nigeria is a country where our rulers make laws today & break the same laws tomorrow. . @NCDCgov followed @WHO guideline & encouraged all Nigerians coming from certain countries to self-isolate & monitor themselves, as a strategy to contain or to delay the spread of #COVID19

If we survive COVID-19, we need to consider a law to restrict all public officials from seeking medical care abroad. It may be perceived as strict, but it will save future generations since we don’t know which pandemic would come next and when. #COVID19 #COVID19Nigeria

More than 3,000 women died of breast cancer, more than 2,000 women died of cervical cancer and more than 1,500 men died of prostate cancer, according to World Health Organization (WHO) figures on annual cancer mortality.
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On March 22, 2018, @BillGates , founder of @Microsoft & the @gatesfoundation criticized the Nigerian government’s poor funding of healthcare in the country. In his words, “One in three children is chronically malnourished.”
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Nigeria has remained one of the countries in the world with the worst healthcare system with over 60 deaths per 1000 live births.

The Centre had a budget of N1.4b, but only N224m was released. In the same year, over 472 Nigerians were diagnosed with Lassa fever and over 110 people died from this viral hemorrhagic fever. Clearly, NCDC cannot perform magic.
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Months ago, being unwell evoked empathy; today being unwell evokes fear. The fear of COVID-19?
No! It is the fear of not having access to the care that you need, the fear of absence of ventilators, the fear of a broken health system. It is the fear of death.
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