Nigeria loses more than $2 billion annually to India through medical tourism

Dr. Dayo Adeyanju is the Commissioner for Health in Ondo State. In this chat, he speaks on  how Nigeria loses more than $2 billion annually to India through medical tourism, explained in details the management of deaths arising from the consumption of local gin (Ogogoro) in Irele community, while outlining the gains of  the state’s deliberate investments in the health sector.
By Olufemi Ajasa
 
What is the state of Ondo State’s health sector ?
When we came in, under the leadership of Governor Olusegun Mimiko, all the indices indicated that Ondo had the worst health status with our maternal mortality standing at 745 per 100,000 live births. So, as a responsible government, we decided to launch the Abiye project and built Mother and Child Hospitals to reverse the trend. So, between 2009 and 2012, the maternal mortality dropped to 317, and, today, we have come down to 187.