Doctors And Hospitals In Nigeria

Sorry. . . .Try again. .  . . . I don't want to be poisoned all in the name of medication.

Tell that to the porcupines. . . . 

The problems with Nigerian Hospitals starts with the government and ends with the masses.

In Paris, the bills I incure from every visit to the hospital is not friendly at all when you convert it to Naira.

The thing is that every government in trying to please the populace brings in this stupid and unproductive concept of Free-health care, and my brother nothing good is cheap or free.

These Doctors are under-paid when you compare their payslips to that of their european counterparts. How do you expect quality healthcare service when even the schools that produces our nurses and doctors are riddled with corruption and filled with non-chalant teachers/lecturers who graduate half-baked Nurses that cannot even make correct sentences in english every year. Some nurses do not even know how to administer an injection let alone set up an I.V.

Government hospitals still remain one of the best hospitals in the country, but that only when you have money.

Everybody is looking our for themselves only. Starting with the contractors who built the facilities who cut corner and build funny looking structures and call them hospitals, to the the janitors that clean the hospitals that do not have any job satisfaction so they just come to work when they like and do their jobs as they seem fit and go, leaving the entire clinic reeking of locally manufactured IZAL disinfectant. Or should we talk about the person who delivers hospital supplies and stocks them with fake and sub-standard products and drugs from illegal traders in Onitsha, lagos and Aba. Please don't let me talk about hospital maintainance. Cos most government hospitals look like abandoned properties with broken windows, broken down, non fucntional & out-dated vehicles and ambulances. The environment in which the hospital is situated is not even encouraging.   

Who buys hospital equipments?? In all federal and state hospitals they are still using old and outdated equipments and tools. You can barely find hospitals with standby generators, no blood banks not even pharmacies.

The doctors atimes are not the problem, but rather the environment in which they work.

Also when you add the fact that most of these clinics are over crowded, with some pateints even having to receive treatments in the hallways due to non avaliability of space.

I beg even you sef are bound to be frustrated with your job if you be Nigerian doctor

The way out is for the government to remove their hands from healthcare. Instead of free they should subsidise the health sector. The insurance companies should come up with good affordable health insurance policies that could help cater for the bills of the people. And all gorvernment hospitals should be setup in such a way that every clinic would have a board of directors made up of good upright citizens, whose jobs will be to make sure that the hospitals stay on point, the doctors and nurses behave as they should, and that the clinic makes some money. New and mordern equipments should be imported and installed at these clinics. 

Too much Awoof dey kill.

Esss, no one could possibly have said it better!!!

Sadly, Sonny Okosun had recently passed away. He died of cancer of the colon.May his soul rest in peace.

Please tell me whether there is a private hospital in Nigeria called: Heartdell Hospital,3 Siatere Street, Ego State, Nigeria.

My friend an American was supposed to leave Abuja on 26/6/08 for London. I did not hear from him for two days. Today I received a email that he was involved in a fatal accident and is admitted to this hospital. They said his ribs are broken and they need do a surgery to repair his kidney or he will die. They said his driver died this morning.

Please verify urgently. Thank you.

Please can anyone tell me if there is any way in Nigeria to check on authencity of a person and address and tel no?

Eric Kevin,
23 Abi Street,
Warri,
Delta State, Nigeria.

Mega Collins,
23 Udu Road,
Warri,
Delta State, Nigeria.

The telephone nos are: (234)806-5117801 & (234)807-3109877 & (234)807-7409422

Please help if anyone have any information on any of the above. Thank you.

Hello everyone,

I have been reading the forum and just felt I should join in. As a Medical student in the UK I have always heard stories and witnessed the great unprofessional and ill-fitting practices of Nigerian doctors and hospitals.

Where as I can completely understand the lack of resources and support for the Nigerian Health care system I cannot ignore the pure selfishness and lack of respect of the Nigerian professionals.

Even though there is no resources, what stops people from acting out of compassion - now I am not a fool and at the end of the day you cannot help everyone and show mercy to everyone if you yourself cannot support them financially but what about those who in position that actually do have some resources? What are they doing to further and better the standard of the hospital and still be relatable to their patients.

There are many Nigerian students and doctors abroad and most of them including myself would love to come to Nigeria and work. I see no point in having all these qualifications and talent if I cannot help the people I was trained to help.

Healthcare is not about making money, it is not about business opportunities it is about the standard of living and the wellbeing of Nigerian citizens. You don't joke or make a transaction over someone's life. You don't forfeight the right to up to date drugs to make money. This is someone's life we are talking about no a business deal.

Many of us are willing to learn and accomadate the Nigerian system and change it for the better. Everyone, no matter how poor or who your father is has the right to basic healthcare. Everyone.

What we need to do is form alliances and contacts. So if anybody can give us relevant information on the sutuation in Nigerian hospitals, how you actually receive treatment or any suggestions on how we can improve on the Healthcare system that would be much appreciated.

Obviously we need 1st hand experience and we will be making regular trips to Nigeria when we can. It is not our fault that we were born or live abroad and we do not apologise for it but we do recognise our own and we want to help.

We are capable and willing. Our friends could be the next business moguls in Nigeria or even the next president, we need to put ourselves in a position where if we know someone who is able to appoint people that we are ready to make our mark on the Health sector. You need people who undertand the system and have healthcare in their hearts and minds not Money.

Thank you.

I look forward to hearing from you all soon.

Enitan

I am trying to find out whether anyone out there has ever heard of a Dr Tobi Coker or a Private Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria called the Rexanlin Smithcline Hospital. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You

hi people
i like to check some info here. and that is if there is a hospital  from the greenlife children care in the city abeokuta  in the ogun state.