Medical Tourism: Implication for Health Care Delivery in Nigeria

• Ensure that every Nigerian has access to good health care services
• Protect Nigerians from the financial burden of medical bills
• Limit the rise in the cost of health care services
• Ensure efficiency in health care services
• Ensure equitable distribution of health care costs among different income groups; equitable patronage of all levels of health care
• Maintain high standard of health care delivery services within the scheme
• Improve and harness private sector participation in the provision of health care services
• Ensure adequate distribution of health facilities within the Federation
• Ensure the availability of funds to the health sector for improved services.

CONTENT

• Introduction to medical tourism
• Ethics, challenges, standards & future of medical tourism
• Nigeria healthcare case laws
• Important healthcare/medical laws in Nigeria
• Medical professional, patient & the law
• Marketing concepts
• Healthcare marketing ethics

FOR WHOM:

Relevant Healthcare Practitioners

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.