NwaAmaikpe:



We were not told what was actually wrong with the girl.

But its' obvious Amala just cost her her life.
I wish the eating of Amala and Ewedu in hospitals could be banned.

She won't have died if the cashier ate something light,
Like abacha and ugba.

ultron12345:
He is very silly, why blame doctors and staff for lack of equipment, or is it doctors that are to provide defribillators and ACs. He sounds like a pained and frustrated soul whose childhood dreams to become a doctor were crushed by JAMB. That's why he has shifted d government responsibility to the doctors, just to give them a bad name and pour out his frustrations, my advice to him, he should pick next years JAMB form and study hard.

Very nice submission you made here. However, you shouldn't have told a grieving person what you just did. Alot is wrong with our healthcare system and to some extent the public knows. I don't really know if the doctor said he has to eat before attending to a critical patient but you and I know know that patients don't get the best care from healthcare professionals in Nigeria. I'm a doctor and I know what obtains. You can can't really blame them, can you? Poor motivation, poor working conditions and all.


Back to the matter on ground, Nigerians should understand that the government does not have the capacity to solely fund all our public hospitals. It's only in Nigeria that you see a hospital that doesn't make up to N20million a month, but will be paying salaries and expenses of N300million a month. It can never work. Nigerians must pay the real cost of healthcare, either indirectly by high taxes, or directly to the hospital or by insurance. When this is done, there will be enough money to fund the hospitals adequately. This also applies to the education sector and several other sectors.

Quality healthcare is expensive, Nigerians have to choose between cheap but low quality healthcare or high quality but expensive healthcare.

bobochem:
paying taxes is not the issue but selfishness and lack of empathy is our main problem in Africa.If you use all our salary as tax in dis country it will still get embezzle.Imagine a senator earning millions per month for duing nothing.Doctor and some other civil servants are earning meager income per month.African are too greedy.

Cromcruach91:


So we should not pay taxes because some Big Man will embezzle the money...and expect public services funding to come from where?

Plus...corruption happens because you Nigerians have turned it into a game of 'my tribe is being persecuted'....limiting govt's hand in prosecuting the thing.

I think you guys want govt to take another loan from IMF be that. Well...he that puts his hand in chains...

Cromcruach91:


Yes, I agree (I am not the poster you responded to)...the docs should have been more caring...but what could they have done in this case.?

Perform a magic trick and magically make the equipment needed appear from the sky?

That defibrillator mentioned...it is very very important in the management of that case. But as I am talking to you now...MOST tertiary hospitals in Nigeria don't have defibrillator....and if they have them...it is in the ICU unit...for ICU patients only.

That is why his point about adequate equipping of our hospitals...and there not being enough money for them....is vital. You do not give what you don't have.

MaziOmenuko:


Just incase...you didn't make much sense either. Hospitals are run by Chief MD's and I am sure they present their budget yearly. The ministry of health is manned by an MD as well and I am sure he presents his budget yearly. There is no excuse for poorly equipped medical hospitals especially teaching hospitals. There is no year that health budget does not eat the chunk of our national budget, coupled with the aids they get from Unicef and WHO. Its either doctors are bad managers and can't run the health sector in which case I will suggest that they hands off running the healthcare sector and focus on giving care to the patients.

What would you say if we appoint an administrator to run the hospitals and to be a health minister?

Cromcruach91:


Lemme tell you something....

The budget for most Nigerian hospitals is not enough to adequately equip them...and most of it would be spent on salaries, overheads, etc.

OAUTH's budget a few years ago was 11 billion naira. Sounds like a lot...until you compare it with the Mass General Hospital in the USA which has a budget of $750million for research.

Thing is, we need money to fund our hospitals adequately...and the amount needed cannot be catered for by our budget.

And yes...I compared Nigeria with USA...because you Nigerians want USA level of care at Nigerian cost. Not possible.

lotusbeta:
As with most government bodies, the staff of public hospitals seem to have seen and heard it all and never can get to move their bodies quick enough to save lives. I wonder if there are comparative statistics to determine how many patients are lost and saved so their shortcomings would be laid before them...but that is asking for too much aint it? RIP to the dead.


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famzynet:
My dear sorry for your loss. I found myself in your shoes about 3 weeks ago when I had to rush my relation to Nnewi teaching hospital,Anambra state. The truth is that there is nothing like emergency care in Nigerian teaching hospitals. Just pray that your case doesn't become emergency because if it does,your case is at God's mercy. The delay in accident and emergency is just sad. The protocol is much. Before one would stand in queue to make payment,a lot may go wrong. What is our national health insurance doing? NHIS is meant to cover for every citizen that presents as emergency so that the health workers can start attending to people who present in emergency without payment. But in Nigeria, the government nurse will ask you to go and pay for folder,you will stand in queue to buy every single thing the doctor needs to attend to your relation. Within 8hours , four people died in my presence while we were at the accident and emergency. Oxygen cylinders were limited for some who needed them. A doctor waits for ages before he gets result of tests that will enable him treat patient. How can acdident and emergency not have a functioning defibrillator for someone with cardiac arrest? When someone is about to die the doctors just come and press the chest. No Ambubag to resuscitate or give air. My relation had a stroke and would have benefited from one drug called "Alteplase" from what the CT scan doctor told us as he presented very early. Do you know that Nigerian teaching hospital does not have this drug that could have saved a stroke patient? I put a call to a doctor friend abroad and he was surprise how accident unit would not have such important drug used for heart attack and stroke patient. I lost my relation in the hospital.The Nigerian system has failed us. Our government don't care since they have the money to travel abroad. I pity people who shout "Sai Buhari" . Just pray you or your relation don't end in such condition where your life would have been saved if we have sane government. Our past leaders have also failed us. The doctors complained of being understaffed. It took the doctor more than 45 mins before he showed when my relation was eventually gasping to die. By the time he came,my relation had passed out. He said he was the only doctor covering two wards or so.

Our lawyers should also sit up. Doctors , nurses and teaching hospitals should be sued for medical negligence. A patient has much right abroad but in Niheria,health workers see themselves like god. I know our hospitals are under equipped but if lawyers should start sueing,maybe these government hospitals will sit up as pressure will be on the government to do what they ought to do.

pweshboi:
Hmm... That is the norm in most hospitals in Nigeria. Very pathetic... I'm sure most deaths are due to negligence by these nurses and doctors.

PDPGuy:
Nigeria’s hospital system is in absolute shambles. Everyone of the hospital staff whose negligence, was a proximate cause of the patient’s death, would have been sued or prosecuted if it happened in a more civilized clime.

Moreover, the fact that a hospital lacks oxygen warrants sober reflection on the so-called “learned” people who run the facility.

qmd24:
Very unfortunate.
RIP to the departed soul.

I wish you and the family had the resources to provide and pay for quality and excellent healthcare required to save her. It is actually available but only to the rich who are mostly the corrupt leaders and their family members.

The real conversation and anger should be directed to these looters who stole the money meant for healthcare services over the years but have enough resources to seek standard care available in some private hospitals and abroad.

UCH is not a death trap as you have put it,but not it is nothing to write home about. It is a reflection of the decaying society we have created and permitted.

Government should equip the hospitals, citizens should be ready to pay for quality healthcare they desire and deserve as it's done elsewhere,then, we can hold the health workers responsible.


Revolution of the health sector should start with value and respect for life. Dignity of life is nonexistent in Nigeria. Life expectancy is 40 in Nigeria even for the UCH workers. I strongly condemn the attitude of the staff .

RIP Seun

GODAKPAN:
So unfortunate that she died. Truth is Nigeria is not working from the top to the bottom. I guess the bereaved didn't ask those nurses when they were paid last. We all are aware the the number one clinic that treats the president is empty then how can you trust the life of your love ones to other govt hospitals. If I ask now which party their entire family voted people will think am heartless, nothing is too small every action has equal an opposite reaction. It was still in this country that people that were slaughtered by Fulani were climbing billboards to hail sai baba, and the killings continue, how am I sure that those killed after his visit were not part of the climbers. I have refused to feel pity as most of our problems are direct product of our actions. Once again, Nigeria is not working. Make it work from 2019.

SKYQUEST:


lack of equipment is also responsible for the doctors's and staff coldness to the emergency of the patient abi?, remember what comes around goes around ooo

mediclife1987:


Someone who has probably never spent a day working in a hospital uses the phrase "I'm sure" in a sentence.

That's Nigerians for you, "magically smart" beings who know your job more than you the professional.

It is well.

pweshboi:

Before you start with the inconsequential rants... I've experienced negligence by doctors and nurses at various hospitals. Me using the phrase 'im sure' is because I don't have a fact or statistics to prove the cause of most deaths. I'm sure if you read the sentence very well maybe close to 3 times you will understand what I was trying to say which is actually not far from the truth. Have a good night