The Nigerian Elites and the Ordeal of National Health Care

As the Marxists concluded there are only two classes, the elites and masses, and as usual the masses are in the majority yet the elites enjoy heaven on earth at the expense of the masses. George Owell argued that “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”. One of my mentors Professor Oyedele a radical anti capitalist once lamented that even in the most advanced capitalist countries such as the US the masses suffer because elites derived pleasure in the plight of the masses, a paradox of plenty. But atleast those countries can say they have the best hospitals on earth and their leaders don’t steal from tax payers money to go for medical tourism.

In My dear country, with our dependent crony capitalism, after 59 years of independence, with vast oil revenue we are yet to achieve any concrete and tangible success in health care, yes we have 23 federal medical centers, teaching hospitals, General Hospitals, dispensaries, clinics, etc meant for the masses but the funny thing is that the elites make sure that such hospitals are in sorry state since they don’t patronize them.

Firstly, they won’t care about the quality and quantity of the hospitals as per population ratio, and they would deem it a suicide mission to take their “humble” selves or their family members to such hospitals under their very watch because they lack an iota of confidence in such institutions under their watch. How can you run a hospital where you your self can’t ascertain the quality of such hospitals. But they encourage the masses to admit themselves there. In this inglorious adventure theirs by compromising public health care, they care not if their victims are Muslims or Christians or they share any ethnic or regional affiliation, after all the northern elites are Muslim Hausa Fulani and the southern ones are mostly Christian Igbos, Yorubas as the case may be. They are so heartless that they kill their own own people that voted them, and with this blood on their hands they go to Makka or Juresalem for pilgrimage, pray in churches and mosques.

This lead us to second point, since people including the Nigerian elites and their families get ill, but since they can’t send their selves to early graves by going to the very hospitals they campaign to revive and budgeted money to repair, they fly out to India, Egypt, London, Spain, USA for medical tourism with public money, from the president down ward.

The most heartless amongst them have to steal from monies meant for public health care to cure them selves and their beloved family members outside Nigeria. To them,
It doesn’t matter if they steal from their people be it Christians or Muslims or their village people. Most of our regional leaders are from our indigenous communities and adhere to our religion. Health is in the concurrent list.

Them and their cronies would build private hospitals mostly with Ill gotten wealth from public coffer and equipped it with modern facilities, employ doctors from public institutions to extort the masses, they won’t pay taxes and make it as business enterprise . As their religion person or tribes men if your child dies due to lack of medical treatment they don’t care. Most Muslim and Christian masses die d even when their is private hospitals -mostly built from stolen public money- in their environs belonging to their religious or ethnic set of elites, they would later come for burials and prayers if they are lucky.

I think they kill public hospitals so that they may have escape route while on trial for corruption, remember the wheel chair charade, escaping prosecution while going to foreign medical leave,? Its a deliberate move, if they revive our Medical centers where would they run. They would also loose campaign speeches during elections.

The rate of infant and maternal mortality is alarming, they would always declare free healthcare system, but even to get bed in public hospital you need connections and bribes. You have to buy medicine, and even old retirees that have spent their young age serving the country ain’t excluded even when same people steal their pension. You don’t expect them to care high ranking rates of infant and maternal mortality, aged people ailments and reduction in years of life expectancy even when the victims share the same religion, region ethnicity or tribe with them, even if their victims voted for them, even when they promise health care during campaigns, their problem is their family and friends.

This is happening in Nigeria, yet in the same planet American Congress is debating whether Health care is Human Right or not? President Obama introduced the obamacare that lifted 20 million vulnerable Americans out if misery.

Someone might say that America is too advanced compared to Nigeria, but look at South Korea with a cutting edge medical technology and
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Dentistry , which as of 2017, was ranked as the number one top dental school in the world. Just look at India, Egypt, and Isreal. Here they left our teaching hospitals in comatose our medical schools outdated, no incentives for research, we have the bright brains but are being frustrated. Doctors going to strike and government withholding their salaries. Yet, no any politician is on industrial action (strike) over salary, they renovate governments houses and build private residence with public funds but left villages with out hospitals. These set of people don’t care if pastor or Imam is going to die due to their recklessness, or the children of their entire religious or ethnic affiliation, they don’t care, they want their own version of heaven here on earth with public money.

We need to start asking these people questions, they need to ban medical tourism for public officials, if you insist in going out for medication then resign your post, even if they say we don’t have qualified doctors let them hire expatriates, buy the equipments or we die together here. A consultant in London said as director in public health you can’t drive flashy cars or else people would ask you questions and call for your head. A minister in the change government told us that we even have surplus doctors, yet his president jets out to London for medical tourism. Him and his family can’t consult such surplus Doctors, how many villages have qualified doctors? How many doctors do we have compare to our population?

May Nigeria succeed and may her enemies perish.The Nigerian Elites and the Ordeal of National Health Care.

As the Marxists concluded there are only two classes, the elites and masses, and as usual the masses are in the majority yet the elites enjoy heaven on earth at the expense of the masses. George Owell argued that “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”. One of my mentors Professor Oyedele a radical anti capitalist once lamented that even in the most advanced capitalist countries such as the US the masses suffer because elites derived pleasure in the plight of the masses, a paradox of plenty. But atleast those countries can say they have the best hospitals on earth and their leaders don’t steal from tax payers money to go for medical tourism.

In My dear country, with our dependent crony capitalism, after 59 years of independence, with vast oil revenue we are yet to achieve any concrete and tangible success in health care, yes we have 23 federal medical centers, teaching hospitals, General Hospitals, dispensaries, clinics, etc meant for the masses but the funny thing is that the elites make sure that such hospitals are in sorry state since they don’t patronize them.

Firstly, they won’t care about the quality and quantity of the hospitals as per population ratio, and they would deem it a suicide mission to take their “humble” selves or their family members to such hospitals under their very watch because they lack an iota of confidence in such institutions under their watch. How can you run a hospital where you your self can’t ascertain the quality of such hospitals. But they encourage the masses to admit themselves there. In this inglorious adventure theirs by compromising public health care, they care not if their victims are Muslims or Christians or they share any ethnic or regional affiliation, after all the northern elites are Muslim Hausa Fulani and the southern ones are mostly Christian Igbos, Yorubas as the case may be. They are so heartless that they kill their own own people that voted them, and with this blood on their hands they go to Makka or Juresalem for pilgrimage, pray in churches and mosques.

This lead us to second point, since people including the Nigerian elites and their families get ill, but since they can’t send their selves to early graves by going to the very hospitals they campaign to revive and budgeted money to repair, they fly out to India, Egypt, London, Spain, USA for medical tourism with public money, from the president down ward.

The most heartless amongst them have to steal from monies meant for public health care to cure them selves and their beloved family members outside Nigeria. To them,
It doesn’t matter if they steal from their people be it Christians or Muslims or their village people. Most of our regional leaders are from our indigenous communities and adhere to our religion. Health is in the concurrent list.

Them and their cronies would build private hospitals mostly with Ill gotten wealth from public coffer and equipped it with modern facilities, employ doctors from public institutions to extort the masses, they won’t pay taxes and make it as business enterprise . As their religion person or tribes men if your child dies due to lack of medical treatment they don’t care. Most Muslim and Christian masses die d even when their is private hospitals -mostly built from stolen public money- in their environs belonging to their religious or ethnic set of elites, they would later come for burials and prayers if they are lucky.

I think they kill public hospitals so that they may have escape route while on trial for corruption, remember the wheel chair charade, escaping prosecution while going to foreign medical leave,? Its a deliberate move, if they revive our Medical centers where would they run. They would also loose campaign speeches during elections.

The rate of infant and maternal mortality is alarming, they would always declare free healthcare system, but even to get bed in public hospital you need connections and bribes. You have to buy medicine, and even old retirees that have spent their young age serving the country ain’t excluded even when same people steal their pension. You don’t expect them to care high ranking rates of infant and maternal mortality, aged people ailments and reduction in years of life expectancy even when the victims share the same religion, region ethnicity or tribe with them, even if their victims voted for them, even when they promise health care during campaigns, their problem is their family and friends.

This is happening in Nigeria, yet in the same planet American Congress is debating whether Health care is Human Right or not? President Obama introduced the obamacare that lifted 20 million vulnerable Americans out if misery.

Someone might say that America is too advanced compared to Nigeria, but look at South Korea with a cutting edge medical technology and
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Dentistry , which as of 2017, was ranked as the number one top dental school in the world. Just look at India, Egypt, and Isreal. Here they left our teaching hospitals in comatose our medical schools outdated, no incentives for research, we have the bright brains but are being frustrated. Doctors going to strike and government withholding their salaries. Yet, no any politician is on industrial action (strike) over salary, they renovate governments houses and build private residence with public funds but left villages with out hospitals. These set of people don’t care if pastor or Imam is going to die due to their recklessness, or the children of their entire religious or ethnic affiliation, they don’t care, they want their own version of heaven here on earth with public money.

We need to start asking these people questions, they need to ban medical tourism for public officials, if you insist in going out for medication then resign your post, even if they say we don’t have qualified doctors let them hire expatriates, buy the equipments or we die together here. A consultant in London said as director in public health you can’t drive flashy cars or else people would ask you questions and call for your head. A minister in the change government told us that we even have surplus doctors, yet his president jets out to London for medical tourism. Him and his family can’t consult such surplus Doctors, how many villages have qualified doctors? How many doctors do we have compare to our population?

May Nigeria succeed and may her enemies perish.