New reports confirm that 7 soldiers wounded while fighting Boko Haram terrorists will be flown abroad for medical treatment. This was made known by the Nigerian Army in Lagos yesterday. Brig.-Gen. Adekola Dada, the acting Chief Medical Director, 68 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital Yaba, made this known to journalists at the hospital in Lagos. 
According to Dada, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, had approved the foreign medical trip for the troops to see that they are properly treated. “We have some wounded soldiers who have been referred abroad. As I speak to you, we have about seven approvals we just received. Those ones will be on their way to India in a few days for treatment. They were approved by the COAS and they were wounded in action,” he said. 
Reacting to online reports about an army captain who accused the Nigerian Army of neglect after he was injured in Maiduguri in 2014, Dada maintained that the army has no record of such person, as all wounded soldiers are duly taken care of. “It beats my imagination that someone could put up such kind of allegation. As long as I can remember, every single personnel wounded in action have been taken care of. Sometimes, there are thousands of dollars involved in each person’s treatment. There are soldiers who were wounded whose cost of treatment runs into 25 to 40 thousand Dollars. 
If you compute that, then you will know the cost is enormous. If you combine that with the fact that any personnel who is going for medical treatment abroad must be accompanied with a medical escort who will also be taken care of by the system. Then you know how much is been done by the COAS. Of course you know that there is nothing you will do that you won’t find people who are not satisfied. If someone has an issue, he should be able to come out, tell his name and state his issue not hide under an anonymous person and writing what is not true,” he said. He concluded that there is a process to follow for every wounded personnel depending on the degree of the injury.
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