Anyone can fall ill and we do. But not everyone who has suffered ill health has the opportunity to influence health care in their country, state or local government. There is not a hair thin indication of empathy from Buhari towards the thousands, maybe millions of Nigerians who suffer what he suffered. There is no indication from health policy and budgets or from Independence Day speeches that he sees an opportunity for additional research and development in any illness.
That the APC presidential candidate – from the same party and generation, with the same sense of entitlement and same ideology towards power – is also allegedly suffering from an undisclosed illness should make thinking people pause. It is not about his personal wealth providing him access to the best hospitals in the world, it is about the people he claims he wants to lead and whether they will have the same or better access to healthcare.
We are all one serious illness away from being impoverished and changing the fortunes of our families and we will give our kingdoms – all we have – to be well again. Decent, accessible, affordable public health is a right, not a privilege, and we should not give our votes to those who see the best health care as their entitlement and sub-par health care as a privilege to us.
It is hubris, not determination, to have a life threatening or debilitating illness but still contest the presidency of a broken country. There is no arrogance with ill health – it humanises, makes people kinder, more caring, more giving. If these are not the traits that we see with candidates, even before they enter into office, we will not see them when they have power, because as Michelle Obama points out, power does not change anyone, it makes them more of who they are.
Those whose bodies do not function like they used to or should, whose bodies are attacking them, will give anything to be well; whole again. We are all one serious illness away from being impoverished and changing the fortunes of our families and we will give our kingdoms – all we have – to be well again.
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