Ogoh Alubo S
Soc Sci Med. 1987;24(5):453-62. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(87)90220-6.
Subsequent Nigerian Governments since independence have been committed to a policy of health-for-all. The right to medical care is now constitutionally guaranteed. But it takes more than the constitution to translate medical, and indeed all rights, to reality. In practice, as this study reveals, status, power and privileges determine whether or not one gets Western medical services and of what type in contemporary Nigeria. Further, medical services for the generality of the people have remained a second rate priority of post-colonial governments, very much like the situation in colonial days. The care for state employees and other elites continues to take precedence.
自独立以来，尼日利亚历届政府都致力于全民健康政策。医疗保健权现在得到宪法保障。但要将医疗权乃至所有权利转化为现实，仅有宪法是不够的。正如本研究揭示的那样，在当代尼日利亚，地位、权力和特权决定了一个人是否能获得西医服务以及能获得何种类型的服务。此外，为广大民众提供医疗服务仍然是后殖民政府的次要优先事项，这与殖民时期的情况非常相似。对国家雇员和其他精英的医疗照顾仍然优先。
