Medical Crisis
The current population of Nigeria is 192,207,088 as of Thursday, August 3, 2017, based on the latest United Nations estimates.
Nigeria population is equivalent to 2.55% of the total world population.
Nigerian government spends only N3,074 on her citizens annually.
Nigeria has 87,000 registered doctors on the Nigerian Medical Association’s register.
Nigeria has 35,000 registered doctors actively practicing out of 87,000.
Nigeria has 52000 registered doctors that are unaccounted for.
Nigeiria has 24500 registered doctors practicing in urban areas where only 57.7m of the populace lives. A ratio of 1:2353 Physician:Patient
The standard of WHO for Physician:Patient is 1:600
Nigeria has 10500 registered doctors practicing in the rural area where 153.8m of the populace lives. A ratio of 1:14647 Physician:Patient
Nigeria needs extra 285,345 doctors to make 320,345 doctors to match a ratio of 1:600 Physician:Patient.
Nigeria’s universities produce less than 3000 doctors annually where a larger chunk seek greener pastures abroad.
Nigeria needs around 90-95 years to get the required numbers of doctors. A task which on Mount Everest.
Nigerians spends a minimum of $1bn annully on medical tourism where 80% is remitted to the Indian medical tourism industry matching 27% of India's earning annually.
Nigeria’s 2017 budget allocated a paltry N304b representing 4.3% to the health sector contrary to the recommended 15 percent by African Union countries in the 2001 Abuja declaration which commits member nations to improve national health budgets.
FG, States Spend 4.3% of N13.5tr Budgets on Health which is N591b
Solutions
Invest massively in the Medical sector. This would allow Nigerians to visit our hospital instead of traveling abroad.
Grant Scholarship to all Medical students with a bond to work in Nigeria.
Offer Juicy salaries to Doctors abroad and in Nigeria . This would push them to Nigeria.
Take a look at Nigerian health Sector in the last 2year
A Case of Mentally Bankruptcy!!!!! May 2015-May 2017
Nigerians from 2015-2017 coughed out $1.6bn as the barest minimum to the Indian Medical sector from May 2015-May 2017.
- What is Medical Tourism?
Medical tourism is defined as travel by an ill person to another country for medical care and well-being, rehabilitation & recuperation.
- What is the worth of India Medical Tourism annually?
As at 2017 its $3b and it is being projected to touch $8 billion by 2020
- How many Nigerian Visit India annually?
40,000
- How many Nigerian Visit India annually for medical tourism?
20,000 that is 50% of Nigerians visiting India annually
5.what is the average cost of ticket, Accommodation, feeding and feeding for patients?
$40,000 depending on how severe the case is.
- How much is the cost of medical tourism to Nigerians annually?
($40,000*20000) =$800m/yr.
7.What is the % size of what Nigerians spend as compared to Indian medical tourism worth?
26.7% is the size.
8.How much has Nigerians spent in two years on medical tourism on the average?
$1.6bn
This is what $1.6bn will do in two years
- How many mobile cancer care/ screening machine will it buy
It will buy 112 nos MCC machine @$1m each with 18 per region and 4 for ABJ making 112 nos of MCC machines to detect and take care of cancer patient.
$112m
10.How many hospital will it build
It will build 38 world class hospital in our 6 geopolitical regions and 2 in ABJ making 6nos. nos each region and two in Abuja @ $20m=
$760m.
- How many Medical consultants will Nigeria engage:
We will engage world class Consultants 72 per region making 432 consultants and 16 in FCT making 448
Salary $13,000/month
$68.8m/yr
12.How many young doctors will we engage:
We will engage 1600 young doctors/ region making 4800 doctors and 320 in The FCT making 9920
Salary @ $1500/Month
$178.5m
13.How much accommodation and cars can it provide for the Doctors?
We will advance the Consultants
$20,000 for accommodation
$10,000 for Car
$13.4m
The young doctors
$10,000 for Accommodation
$5000 for Car
$148.8m
Interest Rate : zero
Payment period : 60 equal installments.
Making a total $162.2m one off.
14.How much will be approved for running cost for each hospital:
We will make available $3m for running cost of each hospital per region making $104m
15.How will the hospitals be powdered:
We will make available Energy via solar energy solution and for each hospital 2MWx 38nos 76MW
$138m
16: How much drugs will we make available to each hospital.
$2.01m/hospital
We have $76.5m for subsidized drugs for 38 hospitals where people will pay.
17: How will the hospital be managed
We will hand over the hospital to seasoned professionals who will manage at an agreed fee from the revenue generated from the hospital.
Finally we will embarked on a massive reorientation for the need to take up medical insurance to forestall having to look for medical fee in the event of illness.
All this can be done in 4 years and all the investment will be recouped back in less than 120months.
There will be investors in droves but we have a government who doesn't care about her citizens.
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