The Lagos State (Southwest Nigeria) Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has appealed to private institutions and individuals to invest more in health financing as a way to help reduce medical tourism and brain drain.
Sanwo-Olu stressed that there is a need to create an ecosystem where Private Public Partnership would be effective in providing healthcare services to the vulnerable and weak in society.
Speaking at the official commissioning of Atlantis Paediatric and Multi-Specialist Hospital in the Lekki area of the state, the governor said increasing investment in the provision of medical infrastructure and facilities from the public and private sectors would have a combined positive effect in reducing medical tourism and brain drain.
He expressed his administration’s commitment to collaborate with private investors in reducing medical tourism and brain drain through a diagnostic capacity and capability.
The governor, however, commended the Medical Director of Atlantis Paediatric, Dr Atinuke Uwajeh for coming back to the country to invest in children’s healthcare.
