Buhari: “We will soon stop medical tourism.”

According to President Muhammadu Buhari, the country will soon have access to the medical personnel needed to reduce medical tourism.

Speaking on July 18 at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Administrative/Senate Building, College of Medicine Building, and Principal Officers Quarters at the permanent site of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO) in Otukpo, Benue State, Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Education, Prof. Adamu Adamu, expressed his admiration for the university’s administration for getting things started quickly and expressed confidence that the desired impact would be achieved.Buhari also said that his administration recently approved the sum of N3billion as a high-impact intervention fund through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund) for FUHSO to further enhance infrastructural development that will provide enabling environment for teaching, learning, research and innovation.

The President also commended the Minister of Education, National Universities Commission (NUC), Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and Ministries of Agriculture and Natural Resources for assisting the new university move speedily to commence academic programmes within one year of its operation.