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The late Nigerian President Alhai Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua’s long absence for treatment in Saudi Arabia for a heart ailment in early 2010 made headlines across the continent. Three years ago in 2007, Yar’ Adua had sought treatment in Germany after he collapsed during his presidential campaign (BBC Hausa, 2010). In May 2008, Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe is reported to have undergone tests for cancer in Singapore (Douglas, 2008). Earlier this year, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, underwent gall bladder surgery at the Heidelberg University hospital in Germany (BBC World News, 2010). The above list is not exhaustive but merely illustrative. It validates the fact that the political elite in Africa do not have faith in their own medical systems and vote with their feet at times of medical emergency to access healthcare beyond their state boundaries.
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Modi, R. (2011). Healthcare of Africans in India. In: Modi, R. (eds) South-South Cooperation. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230316812_7
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