Indian healthcare organizations to set-up in Nigeria soon –Minister
The Federal Government is working hard to help Nigerian businesses in India resolve challenges related to doing business in the country, according to the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment (MITI), Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, who also urged them to tap into the efforts of the new administration to make Nigeria a heaven for investment.
She told the audience that the Federal Government is determined to eliminate all impediments to doing business in the country as the first 100 days in office of President Bola Tinubu has indicated.
The Minister who spoke in New Delhi, India, last Thursday, during an interactive session with the Nigerian community, told them to come together, and galvanize themselves as a community and make use of trade desks in the country’s embassies and missions around the world.
“We need you to come together, and galvanize yourselves as a community. We have trade desks in Embassies and Missions around the world. Once you’re able to fully articulate your demands, we can table them before Mr. President, and also include them in our future negotiations with the Indian Government,” Dr. Anite-Uzoka said, in response to a request for the Federal Government’s intervention in resolving issues being faced by Nigerian nationals who are trying to set up and run businesses in India.
Answering another question about what the Federal Government is doing to tackle outbound medical tourism to India, the minister told the audience of her meetings with Indian healthcare institutions that are seriously looking at setting up hospitals and other medical facilities in Nigeria.
“I extracted a number of commitments from healthcare organizations in India, who will be setting up in Nigeria,” she said.
Among the Indian healthcare investors looking to invest or expand in Nigeria are an Indian Medical University that will be partnering with a Nigerian University to deliver medical education in Nigeria, and another firm that has expressed readiness to establish a school for nursing and paramedical personnel, as well as a chain of General Hospitals in the country.
The interaction was also attended by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu; the Governors of Kwara and Ogun States, Ministers of Foreign Affairs; Finance; Budget and Economic Planning; Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy; the Nigerian High Commissioner to India, and other senior government officials.
