Alliance Hospital: Nigeria’s Pathway To End Medical Tourism

With twenty-three complex spine surgeries, twenty-seven joint replacement surgeries, and sixteen brain surgeries, within a year by Alliance Hospital specialists Nigeria can bondly boast an end to medical tourism.

The Hospital is one of the best equipped so far in the country, having 66 beds space and five Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds to attend to patients in critical health conditions.

At a parley with the Association of Nigeria Health Journalists (ANHEJ) in Abuja, the Chief Medical Director of Alliance Hospital Group, Dr. Christopher Otabor, said are underway for a 200-bed hospital facility, which will be completed before the end of this year.

While speaking on the relationship between public and private institutions, Dr. Otabor noted that it was necessary for a cordial relationship between government hospitals and private hospitals, where patient referrals can be the key to saving lives.

According to him, ”Not having good diagnostics of patient’s illness was a big problem in Nigeria healthcare system, because not too many diagnostics centres have the equipment to accurately diagnose a problem.”

“So you find people throwing medications at something saying they are treating malaria and typhoid whereas something is going on underneath because they don’t have the equipment to diagnose,”

The CMD also stressed the need for health journalists to hold the government accountable, especially in the health sector.

” You need to know more, you need to have the average knowledge in the area of health,” he said. READ ALSO : FG Begins Assessment Of Challenges Facing Vaccine Rollout

Also speaking, the president of ANHEJ, Mr Joseph Kadiri said the association was in Alliance to introduce the new leadership to the management of the hospital and to see the area of collaboration.

”We are here to collaborate, with Alliance Hospital, journalists need input from experts, and there is a need for collaboration with the hospital to improve our reportage.

On his part, the Director of Operation, Mr. Sunday Ekpen said Alliance Hospital is one that is friendly to all Nigerian society.

” One of the reasons the hospital is set up is to reach out to the middle and the high class in the society.”