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The average wait time to see a specialist doctor in Canada is four months. Before insulting me with your excitable nerves, why not research this and only return here to abuse me if you have fact-checked me and found out that I lied?
You can wait as much as 28 days in the United Kingdom to see a regular doctor. If it is a specialist, just buy a ticket to Lagos, Nigeria and see one there, because you can wait until your sickness kpai you.
In America, the average wait time is 26 days.
I schooled in England and have lived in the U.S. for decades, so believe me when I testify that you can die in the West while waiting to see a doctor.
And the funny thing is that when you eventually see the doctor, the probability is relatively high that they may be a Nigerian like you.
If all Nigerian doctors, nurses, and medical professionals return home from Europe and the Americas, the healthcare industry in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada will be in crisis.
Meanwhile, in Nigeria, you can walk into public hospitals today, pay a token for a registration card, and see a doctor on the same day, even if you must wait. You do not have to be a big man.
I know that the nurses will hiss and give you an attitude. The waiting room may be crowded. Some of the people there will smell because they did not shower that morning or even the morning before. They may not have a TV or magazines in the waiting area. But if you wait, you will still see a doctor that day.
Yes, our hospitals are not as well equipped as foreign hospitals. But that is not an issue of access. That is an issue of quality. And our own quality will also improve if Nigerians pay for health insurance. But do we pay for health insurance? No!
Yet, we feel entitled to what we see in foreign hospitals that are completely private owned.
Nigeria has some of the best medical professionals on Earth. They work under sometimes horrible conditions and are not well paid, yet they do a good job under circumstances that are not ideal.
We are often too quick to condemn our institutions and just assume that everything abroad is honky dory and better than in Nigeria. However, let us appreciate Nigeria for some of the good things it gives us!
And maybe if you and I stop speaking negatively about Nigeria and de-marketing her on social media, who knows, things might get better.
But you will join Peter Obi, who did not build a single nursery, primary and secondary school, or university, to talk down on Nigeria and insult those who refuse to believe that a man under whom poverty almost doubled in Nigeria is the Messiah we need to make Nigeria like heaven.
Reno Omokri
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