The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, has said that to curb medical tourism in Africa, stakeholders must build health systems that Africans can trust.
To achieve this, the teaching hospital said healthcare stakeholders on the continent must adopt a comprehensive strategy to tackle Africa’s pressing healthcare challenges.
Addressing a media roundtable meeting in Lagos on Wednesday, AKHU’s Chief Operating Officer, Khurram Jamal, explained that the strategy must be centred on improving the quality of care, training more healthcare professionals, strengthening research, and making access to specialist care easier across the continent.
According to him, Africa has the expertise and opportunity to build health systems that people can trust, reducing the need for patients to seek treatment outside the continent.
“Every year, billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of patients leave our continent in search of healthcare.
