But there are still questions regarding the state of the health sector. For instance, on the lips of most Nigerians are: What would Nigeria have done without the free donation of vaccines by the COVAX facility? Nigeria took delivery of COVID-19 vaccines made in India.
The first batch of Oxford/AstraZenica COVID-19 vaccine doses are offloaded from a plane during its arrival at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, in Abuja, Nigeria, on March 2, 2021. - A shipment of nearly four million coronavirus jabs arrived in Nigeria on March 2, 2021, making Africa's most populous nation the world's third country to receive vaccines under Covax, a global scheme to provide free inoculations.
On importing vaccines from India, Uyilawa said: “It is true Nigeria in yesteryear’s was a health tourist nation but that was in the past. According to the International Medical Travel Journal in 2018, Nigeria spent about 200 million US dollars on medical tourism to India alone. Now, let us ponder on this amount and what it has done to the health institution in India; that’s a lot of money. So, India sat down and grew its health sector, so we should copy from them.
On importing vaccines from India, Ojo added: “We have said it over and again that Nigeria, as a nation, a resource-rich nation for that matter; has sub-optimised her potentials through lack of visionary leadership.
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