Controversial media personality, Daddy Freeze has backed the claims of Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Ali Pate, that citizens from far away places such as, the UK, USA, and West Africa come to receive quality healthcare in Nigeria.
TheNewsGuru reports that Prof Ali Pate while briefing State House correspondents, following the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, which held on Tuesday disclosed that people are now coming to Nigeria from far away places like the United Kingdom and United States to receive quality healthcare in the country.
Pate also disclosed that the federal government has granted approval to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to ratify the African Medicines Agency treaty.
Pate said the treaty was initiated by the Africa Union Heads of State and Government at the 32nd meeting in Addis Ababa in February 2019.
“Despite the challenges we face, significant progress is being made, and the transformation promised by President Tinubu is already taking shape,” Pate said.
The minister’s claims sparked reactions on social media, with many expressing doubt, however, Daddy Freeze, while reacting to the story via the comment section of an Instagram blog, confirmed the statement was true.
According to the media personality, he knows about thirty people who have travelled from the UK, Canada, and the US to Nigeria to seek medical attention in the last two years.
He said they came in for various reasons ranging from long waiting lists to costly private alternatives.
He wrote, “In the last 2 years, I personally known at least 30 people that came to Nigeria from UK, USA and especially Canada for medical treatment. The issues raised where unbelievably long waiting lists and costly private alternatives, this is true.”