Our people say that a child that throws a stone inside a busy market does not know whether the stone will hit his mother or father.

Recently, a thread was posted here on the ugly experience of a hospital Emergency Room doctor.
The junior doctor lost his wounded patients because treatment was withheld and because a senior doctor said so until the patients paid money.

I wrote a response about a doctor who was on duty when his former medical school lecturer was brought in unconscious from a vehicle accident.
Same day, a lorry driver was brought in by the Federal Road Safety staff in severe pain from an accident.
He did not know the whereabouts of his wallet and could make any deposit for treatment to commence.
Incidentally, driver happens to come from the same kindred as the doctor.

In the above scenarios, what should the junior doctor do?
Should he defy his senior and proceed with admission/treatment or stand surety?
I have known doctors to contribute money to buy drugs for patients in dire need, even borrowed from those who were recovering.
But for how long will the practice continue?

Let's take a look at the unconscious accident victim, even the conscious but seriously injured.
When a person goes unconscious, especially in the setting of an accident and in unfamiliar location, he/she loses the ability to make decisions.
They can't tell us where their money is at home, who to contact, or which piece of land to sell to raise money for treatment.
It is the conscious, as in the hospital staff, that makes reasonable decisions for them.

One of the greatest service that health care facilities can render to mankind is to treat the seriously wounded first before payment.
It was obvious that lecturer could afford to pay. Same as the driver but did not have it at the time.
Should they be denied care because they could not pay on demand?

The magnitude of this problem will be better appreciated if we put ourselves in their shoes.
We all travel, so do our parents, children, etc.
You have a stable job with good income, or nice family and friends who are ready to help.
How would you feel if you lost somebody, or your family feel if they lost you on account of a few Naira hospital deposit?

It is high time our National Assemblies looked into the case of the denial of treatment to the accident victim and seriously injured by health centres.
All the attendant bottlenecks, including police the role of the police need to be evaluated.
One should be worried that, by a stroke of ill-luck, one finds oneself in some strange environment, wounded, unconscious and unknown, and money will be a factor between life and death.

In the end, it boils down to funding the hospitals well and curtailing mismanagement and embezzlement of allocated funds.
Let's join hands to cause a bill to be passed in the National Assemblies to address this matter.
Should we use the social media, text messages, or boycott use of our phones nationwide on a certain day?

Suggestions are welcome from readers.

Intelligent threads like these are ignored.

If its a celebrity marriage now... Thats news.

I wish my pple will wake up from their slumber.

An average nigerian on sighting an accident will go to church and sing "many are dying, many are perishing...."

Callousness, wickedness and selfishness ingrained deep in our DNA.

Measures will not be taken to prevent such accidents from recurring. Blind fanatics.


I support that bill.. Or other emergency bills and procedures.. I hope they take it seriously.