Check Out the Huge Amount Nigeria Loses Yearly on Foreign Medical Attention
The effect of medical trips abroad by Nigerians seem to be taking its toll on the downtrodden status of the Nigerian economy.
Nigeria loses over 28 billion United States dollars annually to
medical tourism, and risks losing more this year, as over 23 percent of
pregnant Nigerian women insist on having their children abroad, in spite
of the stern warning by the Ministry of Health that babies of pregnant
travelers to the United States and Latin America, risk contracting the
deadly Zika fever.
The Medical Tourism Association research statistics, disclose that “23 percent of Nigeria’s population has access to a combined buying power in excess of US28 billion dollars, mostly made up of professional and middle-class Nigerians whose desire to seek privileges such as better health care services or simply dual citizenship options for their child/children is on the rise”, despite the warning.
As it implies, Birth tourists are women who travel out for the singular purpose of giving birth. Some circles crudely refer to some of these kids as ‘anchor babies’ because of their access to citizenship of other ‘greener’ countries under the jus soli.
Indications by the centre for immigration studies in Washington estimates that as many as 36,000 birth tourists go to the United States every year and further identifies that Nigerians represent a strong number of guests from Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Medical Tourism Association research statistics, disclose that “23 percent of Nigeria’s population has access to a combined buying power in excess of US28 billion dollars, mostly made up of professional and middle-class Nigerians whose desire to seek privileges such as better health care services or simply dual citizenship options for their child/children is on the rise”, despite the warning.
As it implies, Birth tourists are women who travel out for the singular purpose of giving birth. Some circles crudely refer to some of these kids as ‘anchor babies’ because of their access to citizenship of other ‘greener’ countries under the jus soli.
Indications by the centre for immigration studies in Washington estimates that as many as 36,000 birth tourists go to the United States every year and further identifies that Nigerians represent a strong number of guests from Sub-Saharan Africa.
The figures are not unlikely to increase as statistics disclose
that 23 percent of Nigeria’s population has access to a combined buying
power in excess of US28 billion dollars, mostly made up of professional
and middle-class Nigerians whose desire to seek privileges such as
better health care services or simply dual citizenship options for their
child/children is on the rise.
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