Tanzania: Of 'Health Tourism' and Our Priorities

opinion

South Africa's Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi criticized the continent's leaders for seeking medical attention in other continents but their own. He argued that these leaders are "health tourists", and should be ashamed of going elsewhere for medical treatment.

He spoke in Zimbabwe of all places. While he was not entirely accurate on Africa being the only continent where its leaders seek medical attention elsewhere, his point is valid. Africa has a long list of leaders who travel abroad for medical attention with some of them taking extended medical leave or even die on foreign soil.

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