Why presidents go abroad for treatment and why?
National healthcare system in some African countries are experiencing serious problems with financing, therefore, their leaders prefer to improve your health abroad — in contrast to ordinary citizens who have to settle for the level of medicine that there is in the country.
What is common between the presidents of Nigeria, Angola, Zimbabwe, Benin and Algeria? The fact that they — clearly — do not trust the health care system at home.
By the total amount of time spent in foreign hospitals, ranks first among equals in this kind of “competition” definitely deserves to be Nigeria’s President, 74-year-old Mohammad Bukhari. But all five of the above mentioned leaders this year went abroad for treatment.
National healthcare system in their own countries have serious problems with financing, therefore, their leaders prefer to improve your health abroad — in contrast to ordinary citizens who have to settle for the level of medicine that there is in the country.
According to the world health organization, in 2010, African countries on average spent on medical needs of about 135 budget dollars per capita, while in more affluent countries of the West the average is $ 3150.
For comparison, in Russia in 2010, spending on health care per capita was about 727 dollars at the exchange rate in Ukraine — 233 dollars, in Belarus — 322, in the Baltic countries — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — an average of 823 USD — note in the Russian service.
According to the same data, for example, public hospitals in Zimbabwe often lack the most basic drugs — painkillers and antibiotics
Who says that the national health systems in many countries continue to deteriorate at an alarming rate.
As for the Nigeria, where, according to the editor of Bi-bi-si in Abuja Nazir Michaela, cases with health are just awful.
With the help of the health insurance of civil servants and some employees of commercial companies get access to private medicine, but the majority of the population still have to rely on public health.
In both countries if you have money you can get a great treatment in private hospitals, but often patients have the feeling that medicine is still better.
This year, the President of Nigeria spent more than four months for treatment in London, and his diagnosis remains unknown to the General public, causing understandable concern to residents. Unlike its predecessor, which at one time flew for treatment in Saudi Arabia without even having appointed temporarily fulfilling duties of the President, Buhari left his place of one of the deputies, however, the dissatisfaction of ordinary citizens has not decreased.