Comments on Nigeria Health Watch: Lagos State - continues to set the pace

In 2007, Professor Adenike Grange, said "Nigeria r...

2009-07-09T14:21:04.603+01:00

In 2007, Professor Adenike Grange, said "Nigeria ranks second in the world for the worst health indices, a situation that has sharpened its need to address some of the issues impeding access to quality health services, such as infrastructure, unfair distribution of resources and high cost of poor services." She was not thinking. Health care and services does not need to cost the earth, it is in simple solutions that success in guaranteed. Just the same way our Millennium Development Goals are pie in the sky since benefits will not come in building mega hospitals. There seemed to be a lot of activity in Lagos but how high is high in Nigeria?

The Yobe state Governemnt has also done the same.....

2009-07-08T22:13:07.845+01:00

The Yobe state Governemnt has also done the same...... importing Drs from Egypt. This is happening when there are over two hundred CHEWs and 150 Nurses trained by the state health training institutions (Schools of Nursing and Health Technology) unemployed. Do Egyptian Drs work in the rural areas??????? Pls ask the Yugudas of this world.

Hi, Just like the earlier candidate who comment...

2009-07-08T14:50:13.345+01:00

Hi,
Just like the earlier candidate who commented, i was denied online access to the news.
I'll like to say that this is just another ploy by politicians to siphon funds from their states. There are doctors in Nigeria who with the right benefit package will not hesitate to relocate to Bauchi.
He is obviously following in the footsteps of Boni Haruna who during his tenure as Governor of Adamawa, imported doctors from China who could neither speak pidgin English (the most basic in Nigeria) nor Hausa (most spoken language in the area). They were lodged in a hotel for months where they were being coached on tropical diseases, English language and probably "money laundering". They wrote the certification exams to practice in Nigeria at the end but failed woefully. Yet, the youth corp doctors in the state were not paid their remunerations for months.
It's sad the way our politicians reason.

I am glad I was denied access to the This day inte...

2009-07-08T14:16:52.571+01:00

I am glad I was denied access to the This day interview with oga Yuguda. It probably would have simply infuriated me. Doctors from Egypt? God will deliver us.

Anyway, my real comment was to say how much I agree with you wrt good leaders and the inconsequentiality of their 'tribe'. If we have someone who will change NGR for better, for all people of the country, no one would care a damn about where they are from. Things will change, it'll start with one people and spread. I pray Fashola stays on tho'.