The Nigerian government has said that the nation's health care system has been transformed is now attracting patients not just from the West African sub-region but also from countries as far as the United States and the United Kingdom.

Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday, February 4.

“People are now beginning to come from the subregion, and even from faraway places like the UK and the US, to receive quality healthcare in Nigeria.

Despite the challenges we face, significant progress is being made, and the transformation promised by President Tinubu is already taking shape.”