India to Establish Hospitals in Nigeria

   In a bid to make India’s medical facilities more accessible to Nigerians,
the Asian country is contemplating setting up several Indian hospitals across the six geopolitical zones of the country.
Indian’s new High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Ghanashyam Rangaiah, said in Lagos on Monday that this measure would also make Indian medicine affordable to the growing number of Nigerian clients.
Rangaiah decried the high cost of travel and medical expenses being paid by Nigerians in India, and suggested that bringing the hospitals closer to them would be better.


He said, “We have discovered that what is being paid by a Nigerian patient who goes to India for treatment is even more than the treatment itself. What we have therefore decided is to have many Indian hospitals come to establish themselves in Nigeria's six geo-political zones.
Rangaiah said the hospitals would be sited across rural communities, towns and major cities in Nigeria, and hoped that the establishment of the hospitals would also make many Nigerian doctors trained abroad come home to serve.
The initiative, he said, is aimed at making Nigeria a referral medical treatment country in the region, by gradually standing on her own strength to be the beacon of medical strength for the rest of West Africa.