Patient's Relative Beat Nurse to Stupor in Ekiti University Hospital, Nurses declare strike

Relative of a patient, who died at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado-Ekiti beat a female Nurse, Mrs Akinniyi to stupor yesterday.

The incident, which happened during the wee hours of yesterday, November 2, 2013 was triggered by the death of a patient, admitted at the Female Surgical Ward.

The patient died owing to non-availability of a Nurse to attend to her as Mrs Akinniyi was the only Nurse on Night Shift, attending to over 30 Post-Surgery patients.

Sources disclosed that a relative of the dead patient descended on Nurse Akinniyi, beating her blue black. The nurse that was nearly strangulated is still critically ill and on admission at the EKSUTH Accident and Emergency (A & E) section.

Angered by this development, Nurses at the Hospital declared 24hrs strike immediately, demanding that the State Governor, Kayode Fayemi should employ more Nurses.

Investigations revealed that only one Nurse each attend to over 30 critically ill post-surgical patients at the Female Surgical and Male Surgical wards.

The A & E department is manned by only two Nurses for a whole night shift with over 50 seriously sick patients, facing challenges of patient's relatives frequent calls for attention.

The other time, a certain cousin of the Ekiti House of Assemble Speaker slapped a doctor, who is said to have suffered partial hearing loss. Reason was that the only doctor in A & E was attending to other patients who were on the queue before him.

Further investigation revealed that last year's December (2012), about 6,000 poor unemployed youths of varying fields/professions obtained Employment Form at N5,000 each, wrote exams, did final interview but 11 months after, Gomina Fayemi has refused to give go ahead for them to be employed.

It should be recalled that I have reported several times the rot in the EKSUTH and the non-availability of medical personnel at the Hospital. Relatives of patients are the ones bringing fans and water to the hospital.

As at the time Fayemi became governor, there were 36 Consultants, 90 Doctors, 271 Nurses and 12 Pharmacists working at the University Teaching Hospital.

70 percent of these medical personnel have since left the hospital due to Gomina Fayemi's refusal to the State Government's nonchalant attitude towards their welfare.

"Why will patient not beat doctors and nurses when they see their sick relatives dying because of lack of medical personnel to attend to them. A day is coming that angry patients will set the hospital on fire. Please help save our soul in EKSUTH," a nurse said.

So, over to you, Gomina Fayemi. When are you going to employ doctors and nurses to work in EKSUTH? Abi na like this we go dey go, with continuous assault on doctors and nurses by angry relatives of patients?

One nurse in a ward? Jeez!

The nurse sef try. I wouldn't do it,if I were her.

This is ludicious! Our healthcare system is in chaos. And to think that this is a teaching hospital.

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