We consider the term ‘medical tourism’ to be abhorrent and in bad taste. Tourism is normally associated with leisure, relaxation, fun and pleasure. Those who engage in tourism are usually those who have met basic existential needs and can afford the luxury of travel and adventure. A significant percentage of Nigerians who seek solutions to their medical challenges abroad are certainly not doing so for fun or pleasure. They cannot in any meaningful sense be described as tourists.
Community development could be attributed to the presence of ultramodern infrastructures that would have meaningful impact on the lives of the people in that community, but when a particular developmental structure in a community is generating so much controversies, questions are bound to be asked by the public, in order to alleviate the fears of the people residing in that community.
This is the case of Primus International Super Specialist Hospital, an ultramodern hospital in Karu community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, where so many allegations have been generated by some media reports to heighten the fears of people patronising the well-equipped hospital an alternative to high profile Nigerians involved in medical tourism to other parts of the world.
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