With the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority fully committed to reducing medical tourism by Nigerians to other countries, its former managing director Uche Oji, says Nigerians now pay less for cancer treatment than what they spend outside the country. In this interview with BENJAMIN UMUTEME, Oji reveals that the Authority has consistently made profits since it started operations.
Like you all know the initial project is the cancer treatment program in Lagos which has have more than 200,000 patient encounters and continuing we are now actually begin to expand that Lagos centre because we are not able to keep up with the demand and also the Lagos centre is currently operating on a mantra of high quality reasonable price to that extent from what we have seen, we are able to deliver the cost of these treatment at about 20% of what you pay elsewhere and we’ve been able to run it in a sustainable manner, so that has given us the big confidence to now expand into other states.
