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- The state of healthcare in Nigeria is pitiable.

- Nigerian leaders have failed.

- Problem cannot be solved in four years.
Kogo West Senator, Dino Melaye during a fundraising event �Nigerians4Nigeria' organized by Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care (GIPLC) in Abuja blamed the state of the nation's health facilities on failed leadership. He decribed healthcare in Nigeria as pitiable and concluded that if the facilities were great, we would generally have less people flying overseas for better alternatives.

Senator Melaye said "Were our health facilities in this country in wonderful shape, we would not need to fly anybody overseas for medical treatment.

"Nigeria with a population of about 200 million people does not have one single cardio-thoracic centre. Today, if there is a heart emergency, the survival rate is zero.

"Ghana has a population of 18 million people yet it is about completing its second national cardio-thoracic centre.

"The most pathetic aspect of it is that we have 34 Nigerian cardiologists currently working in Ghana National cardio-thoracic centre. It is a sorry state.

"I am not in the executive arm of government. I am a legislator but I want to categorically say that the health system in this country is in a very pitiable situation and it didn't start yesterday and it cannot be solved within four years.

"I tell all the political leaders in this country, myself inclusive, that we have failed in our responsibility of providing basic health infrastructures for the citizens of this country.

"I hope by this democratic evangelism, political leaders in this country will sit-up and fix what needs to be fixed in the health sector.

"But I want to assure you that the APC government is doing all they can within their powers to correct the situation.

"We should give the improvement of health facilities in this country the same drive we are giving the fight against corruption."�