Garba Shehu, a former aide to the late President Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Buhari’s frequent medical journeys overseas have been a matter of non-public selection, not an indictment of Nigeria’s healthcare system.
Shehu made the assertion throughout an look on Channels Television’s Inside Sources programme on Saturday.
His remarks have been in response to earlier feedback made by Femi Adesina, one other of Buhari’s former spokespersons.
Adesina had beforehand claimed that Buhari “could have died a long time ago” if he had depended solely on Nigerian hospitals, citing what he described as an absence of ample medical experience throughout the nation.
However, Shehu disagreed with Adesina’s place, insisting that Buhari remained beneath the care of Nigerian medical doctors all through his time in workplace, suggesting that his overseas journeys didn’t mirror a insecurity in native medical professionals.
Shehu stated, “I believe it’s improper to imagine that he fenced himself off from the Nigerian medical system.
“He had a Nigerian doctor, a chief personal physician and a state house clinic, also led by a medical consultant, a distinguished doctor of many years of practice.”
He confused that Buhari’s medical staff was persistently obtainable to deal with his well being wants.
“In terms of the immediacy of his own medical needs, they were always present to administer to his own needs,” Shehu added.
While acknowledging Buhari’s common abroad therapies, Shehu defined that they have been based mostly on an current medical relationship overseas.
“As for his attachment to his previous apply overseas for his medicals, he had an attachment to that.
“It was not that he was disrespectful of Nigeria’s medical practice or that he didn’t believe,” he stated.
Shehu additionally identified the worldwide presence and competence of Nigerian-trained medical doctors.
“For most people who also travel abroad and they need to see doctors — I have experienced this in America — you go into the office of the doctor and you find that it’s a Nigerian surgeon, it’s a Nigerian doctor,” he famous.
President Muhammadu Buhari handed away on July 13 in a London clinic after a chronic sickness.
He was laid to relaxation at his residence in Daura, Katsina State, on July 15.
