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“A’Ibom, To Be Africa’s Medical Tourism Centre”a
Chairman of the Healthcare Committee of the Akwa Ibom Diaspora Network (AIDN), Dr Moses Udoh, says he wants to make Akwa Ibom Africa’s medical tourism destination.
Udoh told newsmen in Uyo that his passion for quality healthcare and improvement “is no secret”.
He said that as a physician in the forefront of issues in the U.S., he was qualified to consult and assist Akwa Ibom in quality healthcare delivery, using technology to achieve efficiency in diagnoses and treatment of complex diseases.
“We can position our State as the destination of choice for the treatment of heart diseases, stroke and hip replacement”, he said.
Udoh, who is a diplomat in the American Board of Internal Medicine, said that Akwa Ibom could become medical tourism capital for Africa where people would fly in to get cardiac treatment, intensive cancer treatment and other specialized medical treatments obtainable in western countries.
“Imagine the economic impact these could have on our state”, he said.
Udoh said in his 10 years of medical mission to the state, it was discovered that there was need to provide a short-term solution to a long-term problem as well as access to affordable health care.
“I think that we need to develop a sound policy that will alleviate the healthcare shortage of Akwa Ibom and also to build a western-style hospital where we can practise evidence-based medicine so that the state can be transformed into a medical tourism destination of choice”, he said.
According to him, a team of specialists, including Dr Gabriel Udoetuk, Dr Nse Ntukidem and others who are working collaboratively with various healthcare institutions in the U.S. are already being assembled.
Udoh said this was being done with the hope of establishing an American-style hospital that would be internationally recognised as a destination of choice for treatment of acute and complex diseases.
On what inspired him in his philanthropic activities in Akwa Ibom, Udoh said: “It came from within, it started out of true conviction that I want to give back to my community, I want to contribute positively to our world so as to make it a better planet for future generations”.
Udoh, who hails from Akwa Ibom was honoured last year as one of America’s top physicians by the Consumer Research Council of the U.S. and he currently works with Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals in Columbia as the Vice Chair of Medicine.
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