Medical doctors associations to Buhari: Use Aso Rock Clinic henceforth

The Commonwealth Medical Association and the Nigerian Medical Association have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to, henceforth, use the State House Medical Centre, also known as Aso Rock Clinic.  

While the CMA said the President should lead by example and desist from travelling abroad for medical treatment, the NMA said it was not opposed to him travelling to get a second opinion on his health.

The NMA, however, joined the CMA to urge the President to upgrade the Aso Rock Clinic and all public health institutions across the country to the level of the hospital that he used in London. They said upgrading the clinic and the President’s subsequent patronage of the centre would be the only way to justify the billions of naira budgeted annually for the running of the clinic.

Findings by Punch had revealed that a total of N3.16bn was allocated to the Aso Rock Clinic in the 2016 and 2017 budgets. But, based on an investigation, that lack of drugs and other medical items had crippled operations at the clinic, which was designated to provide medical services to the President, Vice-President, their families, aides, members of staff of the State House and other entitled public servants.