Once more, the doctors are to Blame!

sogodihno:

And i used to respect u o, Why resulting to insult? Dont wory, say all u want, i dont engage in e-fighting with somebody like u. peace
Dont try quoting me

It's not an insult. It wasn't intended as one.

My point is: that hospitals are shutdown because doctors are not on strike is not a measure of relevance of whoever is on strike. You said it was. And I mentioned that it is a very shortsighted perspective.

Don't you think that there are better indices to measure the relevance of a profession to healthcare of a patient than resorting to taking undue advantage of the sufferings of people to prove the same point?

Are the health workers involved going on strike to show who has the biggest muscle?

Is it still an insult ?

PS: I had to quote you to be sure I'm understood. Life is too short to take things personal. That someone disagrees with your perspective on an internet forum doesn't mean he is e-fighting you.

I was at UPTH today,doctors were watching African magic. Chaii. This people should know that are fingers are not equal and go back to work biko. Strike is not the best.

sogodihno:
And somebody will now come here and be saying it's only doctors that matter at the hospital.

.......found that except in-patients, that is those already on admission, those who had clinic appointments and the very critically ill patients, others were being rejected.

The primary function of the hospital as you can see still goes on. Critically ill patients were still retained, a trend which equally happened even when the physicians went on strike as some doctors stayed to take care of the critically ill.

It was, however, observed that the consultants and all the doctors were working round the clock, and the X-ray departments, the laboratories and the blood bank were offering skeletal services.

Apparently, the vital sections to keep health service delivery on-going are being occupied by the specialists. The skeletal services are offered by the few hands on deck among the pathologists, something that can be eased by the employment of more pathologists and those in-training. Same goes for the radiologists.

It was observed that officials rejected outpatient’s cases that were not on emergency list.

In short, work was going on as patients which is the primary reason for existence of a hospital were coming. The screening out of the emergencies was as a result of the overwhelming situation for the few hands on deck.

Achunike Emembolu, a trader who brought her sick aged mother to the hospital, said he rushed her sick mother to LASUTH when she was rejected by LUTH.“I was seriously worried when they turned us back, telling us that they were on strike and were not admitting new patients.

The bolded seems to be the only truth I've seen in this news reporting and I do have my reasons for the conclusion. I had a surgeon in OAUTH agreed to see a patient for follow up and possible minor procedure despite the strike. The first huddle was the entrance at the gate where a johesuite as I suspected, told us to turn back as they were on strike. Unknown to her, I was aware of the strike and the surgeon still insisted I bring the patient. So I simply ignored her. Other uninformed patients would have been fooled into believing they will not be attended to and therefore turned back at the gate.

The next problem was taking the BP, temperature and weight of the patient before he sees the doctor, something which the nurses usually do, but equally done as routine by the doctors. To my chagrin, I was told by the surgein that although he had done the BP, temperature, he couldn't check the weight as the nurses had locked the weighing scale(a property of the hospital) in their office. That's not to speak of the patients' folder that the records locked in theirs, which had not in anyway stopped the patients being seen by the doctors as temporary folders were used which are then transferred to the master folder later. Besides, this doctor knows most things about his patients such that the folder being absent is not an impediment.

To cut the long story short, another patient had offered to purchase a bathroom scale for 1k5 and presented it for the use of other patients and so problem solved. The final shocker came when we realized that the door to the clinic had been secretly locked from outside with us inside (it was opened before), thereby giving the impression to in-coming patients that no one was there to attend to their needs.

Well, this patient successfully underwent her treatment during the three days she was on admission, despite the strike. The other challenge that we encountered in the ward was that of the works department that went ahead to stop the water supply, but hey, patients relatives promptly went ahead to fetch from wells within the premises and so, that was no problem eventually. Some of the relatives equally took it upon themselves to sweep and clean the floors of the wards. The problems of nurses chasing out patient's relatives was with temporary relief as the relatives joked about it, mimicking the nurses in the process and having a good laugh about it.

So this little experience got me thinking: When doctors go on strike, do they really take the hospital equipments they work with along? Do they lock the gates and doors of the hospital to patients and tell them not to come near the hospital? Do they hide the patients' treatment folders at their disposal? Do they lock the doors to their consulting rooms? Yet the moment the Dow tools, everything within the hospital comes to a halt as all johesu members loiter around doing nothing since the patients which visit the hospital to see the doctor and by extension other health workers will have gotten the message that they need not bother coming to a hospital that has no doctor on duty.

Suffice to say that for the duration of time my patient was on admission, not less yhan three johesu members of the same intitution accessed hospital services delivered by the doctors that were working in different capacities as physicians, surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, clinical pharmacologists.

I sincerely hope this will serve an eye opener for the unsuspecting public that are being fed lies on a daily basis in the pages of the newspaper and other forms of media. Lies that are aimed at making them see their doctors as the villain and the enemy. You can't possibly make an enemy of someone that you've chosen to put your lives in his hands, it's unreasonable. That I have learnt.

Patients Groan as Health Workers’ Strike Paralyses Federal Hospitals

So perhaps, the topic should have read thus: Patients groan as health workers bar them from accessing hospital services.

ceaser:




You can't possibly make an enemy of someone that you've chosen to put your lives in his hands, it's unreasonable. That I have learnt.

The heart of the whole matter.

This report is nothing short of biased, sponsored and exaggerated. Expectedly, the work at the hospitals are not running full scale but not as bad as this imagined and concorted report paints it. if u want to know the truth, go to the hospitals and with an unbiased mind, closely observe what is going on. Do not be deceived by johesu-sponsored vituperations

ceaser:



I sincerely hope this will serve an eye opener for the unsuspecting public that are being fed lies on a daily basis in the pages of the newspaper and other forms of media. Lies that are aimed at making them see their doctors as the villain and the enemy. You can't possibly make an enemy of someone that you've chosen to put your lives in his hands, it's unreasonable. That I have learnt.

So perhaps, the topic should have read thus Patients groan as health workers bar them from accessing hospital services.

The bolded is exactly what's happening in the different federal hospitals

lomaxx:


If that's all you see, then your mental shortsightedness has a bad prognosis

the prognosis is very poor

kennygee:
When will these incessant strikes stop?

When the govt desists from making empty promises, and pay workers outstanding benefits

yuzjet:


Will go when u and ur mama is ready to follow suit!

I don't know when you people will stop behaving like kids.

akpanikpe:

I love both mine and Urs so I can reply bck wit the word mama, God bless our mothers.

Thank you for showing him maturity, how can he be insulting another person's mother? I don't blame him shaa, by their words you shall know them