Nigeria is a country of distinct contradictions. Public officers make a round of the world attending seminars and conferences on health, for example.
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They then conclude health is important to the country's well-being.
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Budgets at national, state, and local government levels – are never more than three per cent of the total – truly reflecting the priority we place on health services. Most health budgets are for payment of salaries and maintenance of old facilities that barely provide any services.
In a world leveraging technologies to improve lives, our health services remain ancient, and exorbitantly expensive where they appear modern.
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The ease with which government officials, and all who can afford it, travel abroad for their medical check has left millions of Nigerians to their fate.
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Would government officials bother with health facilities they do not use? How would they appreciate the challenges ordinary Nigerians face to access