drered: So the diesel keeping patients on life support is a waste? You really are concerned sir!

duni04: Public service in nigeria is a joke. its not about rendering service or contributing to national development, it mostly about how much you can gleen from the government and the number of doors you can open for your friends and family members while doing nothing. Most of these guys, from university lecturers to doctors and NNPC workers, own their own businesses and consult in the private sector but they still want to eat from the national cake. its nothing but shameful greed

elpatch: The Lab tech guy that sponsor this thread need learn how to sort the raw information before you dish it out to people.I am a doctor and this is the first time I'm commenting on the issue that borders on the on going strike.why don't you get your facts right.You can be in the position of power too and I'm sure you won't like people dishing out wrong information about your establishment.
We sometimes don't need to paint others black for us to look pristine.
Is it economically sensible to be supplying electricity to empty wards or laboratories that are not working?I am sure you know how much a litre of diesel cost.
The OP is a smart kid and he has being trying hard to turn the nairaland's mind against the doctors,if you doubt my assertion,take a trip through his write ups.My advise is for all to take it cool with each other,we are in the sector together and we will continue to need eachother.

Sylverbox: Dear Op am sorry to burst your bubble. You should be careful with the kind of false news you spread here. I happen to have trained in the very institution you are refering to and have friends who still work there.
Now I was there over the weekend and can tell You categorically that nothing, I repeat nothing is going on in the hospital. We have 2 very large diesel plants that power the entire hospital, many other dedicated backup generators for almost every department eg, Blood bank, Casualty, dialysis suite,radiology and orthopaedic wards. So any unit that feels they are 'working' should utilize their backup plants and stop all this ranting. JO really hates You.

heykims:
O boy, abeg when did Johesuite start keeping patients on life support machines in d absence of doctors' orders?

drered: Don't be daft. Nobody was on those machines before they went on strike? + Consultant doctors are supposed to maintain status quo pending their court case with PCN so why can't fresh patients be placed on life support?

heykims:
me a daft?
At least its good u admitted managing patients on life support isn't d kids JOHESU play.
But d issue of fresh patients being placed on life support doesn't come to play here, consultants will merely manage those already in d delimna before onset of strike..

drered: Don't be daft. Nobody was on those machines before they went on strike? + Consultant doctors are supposed to maintain status quo pending their court case with PCN so why can't fresh patients be placed on life support?

Jummymine: the poster is a joker. i do not know whether he has ever been in within the four walls of a hospital.
in fact, it is the only meaningful thing for the guy to do.
its thensame over here in ife. Except for a very very few pts i see, like a matron who is vey sick that we are helpin specially by treating, and the very long stayers like the ortho pts whom we do not discharge, yhe wards are empty. the nurses, lab guys and the rest are just sitiing down doing nothing.
to continue wasting money on diesel is mere foolishness. the wis thing to do is to use only he nepa light.
mind you, same happens when johesu, which includes everybody except the doctors, goes on strike.
it is only when individual worker groups , like the pharmacists, physios, lab guys etc go on strike, that no one misses them. work just continues as near normal. that is why you have a union like johesu msde up of sooo many strange bedfellows.

elpatch: The Lab tech guy that sponsor this thread need learn how to sort the raw information before you dish it out to people.I am a doctor and this is the first time I'm commenting on the issue that borders on the on going strike.why don't you get your facts right.You can be in the position of power too and I'm sure you won't like people dishing out wrong information about your establishment.
We sometimes don't need to paint others black for us to look pristine.
Is it economically sensible to be supplying electricity to empty wards or laboratories that are not working?I am sure you know how much a litre of diesel cost.
The OP is a smart kid and he has being trying hard to turn the nairaland's mind against the doctors,if you doubt my assertion,take a trip through his write ups.My advise is for all to take it cool with each other,we are in the sector together and we will continue to need eachother.

Sylverbox: Dear Op am sorry to burst your bubble. You should be careful with the kind of false news you spread here. I happen to have trained in the very institution you are refering to and have friends who still work there.
Now I was there over the weekend and can tell You categorically that nothing, I repeat nothing is going on in the hospital. We have 2 very large diesel plants that power the entire hospital, many other dedicated backup generators for almost every department eg, Blood bank, Casualty, dialysis suite,radiology and orthopaedic wards. So any unit that feels they are 'working' should utilize their backup plants and stop all this ranting. JO really hates You.

heykims: This is mere propaganda nd only d gullible will fall for it. Physiotherapists attending to patients as if they are d primary owners of d patients, these re patients referred to them by doctors nd they usually visit on outpatient basis(from their homes) during d day time.
But who re those treating those said to be on d wards, d nurses? d op is a joker!!
I'm pretty sure hardly will any patient remain on d wards except maybe some doctors re secretly visiting wch is a usual thing in strikes or maybe d orthopedic patients too who re actually stable but for some tractions on their limbs..
The scenes in hospitals during strike actions in virtually all hospitals is nurses, lab scientists etc all being in their respective posts doing nothing nd conserving fuel at nights during power outage is almost a norm in most hospitals.

Jummymine: the poster is a joker. i do not know whether he has ever been in within the four walls of a hospital.
in fact, it is the only meaningful thing for the guy to do.
its thensame over here in ife. Except for a very very few pts i see, like a matron who is vey sick that we are helpin specially by treating, and the very long stayers like the ortho pts whom we do not discharge, yhe wards are empty. the nurses, lab guys and the rest are just sitiing down doing nothing.
to continue wasting money on diesel is mere foolishness. the wis thing to do is to use only he nepa light.
mind you, same happens when johesu, which includes everybody except the doctors, goes on strike.
it is only when individual worker groups , like the pharmacists, physios, lab guys etc go on strike, that no one misses them. work just continues as near normal. that is why you have a union like johesu msde up of sooo many strange bedfellows.

finn: Same thing Johesu people did last year during their strike. Nurses locked up their cabinets with ward equipments, locked up some theatre equipments. Records people locked up files. Porter locked up gurneys. Lab scientists locked up reagents and all. We could run these things but they locked them up so we wont have access to them.

Jummymine: the poster is a joker. i do not know whether he has ever been in within the four walls of a hospital.
in fact, it is the only meaningful thing for the guy to do.
its thensame over here in ife. Except for a very very few pts i see, like a matron who is vey sick that we are helpin specially by treating, and the very long stayers like the ortho pts whom we do not discharge, yhe wards are empty. the nurses, lab guys and the rest are just sitiing down doing nothing.
to continue wasting money on diesel is mere foolishness. the wis thing to do is to use only he nepa light.
mind you, same happens when johesu, which includes everybody except the doctors, goes on strike.
it is only when individual worker groups , like the pharmacists, physios, lab guys etc go on strike, that no one misses them. work just continues as near normal. that is why you have a union like johesu msde up of sooo many strange bedfellows.

eejo: ignoramus Nigeria Doctor comment who knows nothing, let me ask you so motuary, lab blood bank, babies in incubators to mention but a few don't need light?

riskit33:
It's you who's spreading very false rumour here! I'm a Physiotherapist in the said institution and our department has NO backup generator just like many others. The few that have are those under the revolving fund and have to depend on the management to release funds for fueling those generator sets. Feed the public with ONLY the truth!

texazzpete:

But the OP specifically mentioned that it's the generator for the wards that have been cut off.

Do you keep blood in the wards? Do the wards double as mortuaries?
Do you know if they have any babies in incubators right now?

Ignoramus.

finn: Same thing Johesu people did last year during their strike. Nurses locked up their cabinets with ward equipments, locked up some theatre equipments. Records people locked up files. Porter locked up gurneys. Lab scientists locked up reagents and all. We could run these things but they locked them up so we wont have access to them.

Jummymine: the poster is a joker. i do not know whether he has ever been in within the four walls of a hospital.
in fact, it is the only meaningful thing for the guy to do.
its thensame over here in ife. Except for a very very few pts i see, like a matron who is vey sick that we are helpin specially by treating, and the very long stayers like the ortho pts whom we do not discharge, yhe wards are empty. the nurses, lab guys and the rest are just sitiing down doing nothing.
to continue wasting money on diesel is mere foolishness. the wis thing to do is to use only he nepa light.
mind you, same happens when johesu, which includes everybody except the doctors, goes on strike.
it is only when individual worker groups , like the pharmacists, physios, lab guys etc go on strike, that no one misses them. work just continues as near normal. that is why you have a union like johesu msde up of sooo many strange bedfellows.

YourHealthlabs: Our almighty CMD want's to render the physiotherapists, the Nurses and the Scientist useless so that patient's can die.
EFCC should zoom in and ask him to open his books, we need him to give account of the N4.6 billion that comes into his office yearly.

allycat:

A revloving fund in a hosptal means it is money raised from services provided used to the operation. Now if there are no patients paying for the services where does the revolving fund get its money. Such money's are not provided by government but from what patients pay. That is why fee paying pharmacies and labs in teaching hospitals tend to render better services than those that offer "free" drugs and investigations. Because they make money they have money to restock. If when patients come back there are no funds to run the generators the same people will say the CMD wasted fuel during the strike. He is damned if he does and damnedd if he doesn't.

elohorayodele:

May your relatives not be in any hospital anywhere in nigeria and the CMD decides that NEPA light is enough like you suggested. Wat amount of money wasted can be compared to relief for some patients or saving lives of some who can't afford private hosps?

Bigsteveg:

4.6 billion naira, are u kidding me? Why do we blame politicians if anything go wrong with our economy, so a CMD received over billion naira in a year and dat hospital is not one of the best in the world...then our problem is universal.

texazzpete:

For the CMD, the hospital is a business that must be profitable to stay afloat.

if Buka owners will not give free food to the people who cannot afford food, cab drivers will not give free rides, bankers do not dash money to poor people to save their lives, your Pastors do not hand money to the homeless, why do you want the CMD to provide free treatment with no money back? How do you keep resources for paying customers if you give it away to those who can't pay?

I agree there's a moral angle to consider, but from a business point of view, the CMD may have done the most financially savvy thing. No need to excoriate him for that when you fail to extend the same scrutiny to other professions.

hydeka: If they continue this way, they'll soon lose whatever public sympathy they have left. This only proves that their primary concern is not the patients' welfare. What happened to the Hippocratic oath?