THE decay in the Nigerian health sector occasioned by the deplorable state of infrastructure was brought to the fore in Lagos, on Wednesday, when the chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos State chapter, Dr. Adedamola Dada, disclosed to the amazement of the audience, that doctors had been performing surgeries using torch and administering drugs with the aid of telephone handsets.

The occasion was a symposium organised by the Lagos NMA, as part of activities to mark the 2009 Physicians’ Week. Dada, who lamented the working conditions of doctors in the country, said they were being confronted daily with problems of caring for the patients in difficult conditions, adding that emergency cases were handled with suctioning machines that were not functional due to blackout.

“I can boast that you can hardly find a practicing surgeon in Nigeria who has not operated a patient using torch as source of illumination,” he added.

UNBELIEVABLE

http://www.tribune.com.ng/15102009/news/news14.html

NIGERIA JAGA JAGA
EVERYTHING SCATTER SCATTER
POOR MAN DEY SUFFER SUFFER
GBOSA GBOSA

ARE U KIDDIN ME Performing surgries with torch !!! God have mercy ,

This is an improvement, we bless God
it used to be candle and lantern before the price of kerozine went up and candle waxes now burn faster.
Thank God the abokis selling batteries have not increased the prices
We are improving!
More grease to your elbows docs!
At least the 16billion dollars Obas spent for 8yrs in the power sector has taken us from candle to torch in surgery room

dem no get generators ni ? na wa ooh.         wetin Nigeria never see.

oh my God,are u telling the truth,i believe so coz naija can do it

The white man invented surgery with surgical lights, we 9ja-rian re-invented it using the 8-bulb to 16 bulb, halogen touches, (the common ones sold in our traffic-jams around Lagos, Gboza.  

ok, make we talk tru if na white man do am, dem go put am 4 guineas book of world records, [size=8pt][size=8pt]ABI I LIE?[/size][/size]

tunyus:

NIGERIA JAGA JAGA
EVERYTHING SCATTER SCATTER
POOR MAN DEY SUFFER SUFFER
GBOSA GBOSA

GUN SHOTS IN THE AIR

I CAN BELIEVE THIS. TORCH LIGHT HABA

Abeg, i don't kown if this one na joke, what of if the torch just go down or off during the proces.

may God bless our leaders Amen

Yes, it is true. I have witnessed where 2 young doctors saved the life of a young woman
   involved in an accident using a  torchlight and lantern. They were looking for a nerve around
  the ankle and they shaved her head  in the process. It was that night I knew the shape of a
  womans head is not different from the mans, minus the hairs, that is.

   With all these limitations in the country I give kudos to the Nigerian doctor. Iwill surely give
    my chair to a doctor on his feet no matter his age.

Nigerian Doctors are miracle workers. They operate under war-zone working conditions.
Why do you think your rulers seek medical attention abroad?

You are shocked that they use torch light for surgery?

Sometimes the scalpels are sharpened by scraping it against a stone and surgical gloves are washed, dried and re-used!
No be joke'o!

and people still complain that we are not Ingenious .

At least at 49yrs we have acheived a lot.

Gaddemit. I sincerely hope that none of us will EVER HAVE ANY REASON TO VISIT THOSE HOSPITALS FOR A SURGERY

Torch?! As long as it is not that olympic torch type then tell me something that I don't already know!

I respect doctors in nigeria,because if u visit the hospitals and see what our doctors are going through then you will hv no reasons than hail them.

chic2pimp:



GUN SHOTS IN THE AIR

Kosa Kosa Kosa

Jesus Christ of Nazereth! can u say dat again GOSH! we have finish in this country, walahi, toch light, surgery! Pls outsider must not hear this

How do those people they cut open survive. No Wonder the death rate is staggering. God have mercy. No wonder the death president always go to another country for treatment. Pathetic.

No wonder I have been relying more on prayers to survive every illness! Torch ke? What of the gen set?

^ Dont mind them, they will never ask for light to be provided, when next you hear they are on strike, it will be to demand for higher pay only . . what a selfish bunch.

skfa1:

Kosa Kosa Kosa

Wetin consign kosa for this one na ?

;d

Nezan:

^ Dont mind them, they will never ask for light to be provided, when next you hear they are on strike, it will be to demand for higher pay only . . what a selfish bunch.

Easy with the barbs brother. Doctors are not well paid in Nigeria. Except ofcourse, if you are a consultant.

Doctors:suck it! Naija get issues, our mouth no fit talk all

Is it not the government's responsibility to provide light? what of the doctor says u have to wait for NEPA to bring light before he operates?

This country when we dey so,is our own, this street wen u dey see so,is our own, style style

Naija for u, Very soon na candle doctors go they use

Whats the big deal with that? What about the numerous D&C performed by drug dispensers porpularly called 'chemists' in the dark walls of their shops? Move over, any better news?

Nezan:

^ Dont mind them, they will never ask for light to be provided, when next you hear they are on strike, it will be to demand for higher pay only . . what a selfish bunch.

young man, you must either be a stark illiterate or a consumate ass. if you have nothing better to say about doctors in nigeria, i suggest you go chew on some gum or crawl back into whatever hole you came from. what light to be provided? by whom? do you know what it takes to become a doctor? do you have any idea of the stress involved, the intense reading, obscene hours of work and the killing schedules doctors have to keep? come to think of it, why dont you take a trip one night to a casualty room, an accident and emergency unit or a labour ward and see what medical doctors and nurses go through. do you know how difficult it is to break the news to a deceased patient's loved ones? it is an open secret that hospitals in nigeria are grossly underfunded and understaffed. nigerian doctors working in the country do so under the most abhorrent of conditions with inadequate financial rewards, so if they want to agitate for more pay, it is well within their right. do not come here and talk rubbish on matters you know little or nothing about boy, and yes, i AM a doctor.

Ye are the light of the world!
I once read that a Doc left a surgical pincer in a patient's tummy!, ,,,,,,,,no light i guess!
The truth is we are set for the ultimate anarchy in this country

Olorum ma je ka ri oran ile iwosan ni oruko Jesu