Greed, Bane of Healthcare Delivery In Nigeria

From Alphonsus Nweze,

The National President of National Complementary and Alternative Medical Association (NACAMA), Prof. Peter Emeka Katchy (FCAI), has attributed the decay in healthcaredelivery in Nigeria to greed and avarice.
Prof. Katchy stated this in Onitsha, Anambra State commercial nerve centre during a press briefing to pay tribute to the former Minister of Health, late Prof.Babtunde Osotimehin, who died onJune 4, 2017 in United States of America (USA) at the age of 68.
Katchy who is also the Vice-chairman of Anambra State branch of Red Cross Society lamented that the major contribution of the Prof Osotimehin to the development alternative medicine Nigeria by establishing the Federal College of Comlementary and Alternative Medcine (FEDCAM), was being “obliterated by unpatriotic elements to allow them divert attractive budgetary provision of the College”.
Speaking on the importance of alternative medicine to the healthcare delivery in Nigeria, Katchy said that is the only branch of medicine that can reduce medical tourism to India and other parts of the world by Nigerians .
Stressing that NACAMA is a key partner in healthcare delivery, the President said until they were given full recognition in Nigeria, all efforts to improve healthcare delivery in the country will amount to a fruitless exercise.
He boasted that Ngeria “annihilated Ebola disease in nine days using Nino Silva, stating that the United States of America which threatened to drag Nigeria to World Health tribunal for treating Ebola patients with insecticide, later came back to beg them teach them how they cleared Ebola in Nigeria in nine days.
He said if the College was encouraged to flourish, all these people trouping abroad for mdecial treatment would be drastically reduced, noting that a former President of the Senate was at a time treated at the College.
He however vowed that the College which is situated at Abuja will never die, instead NACAMA would acquire and convert it to National CAM training and Research Institute.
Paying tribute to Osotimehinm, former executive director, United Nationas Population Fund (UNFPA), ex-director-general of National Agency For Control of AIDS (NACA), Katchy said he was “ a great champion of comprehensive healthcare delivery system of Nigeria, faithful and compassionate medical expert, a champion of peace and rapid responder to medical emergencies all over the world”.