May God continue to encourage, reward and protect mothers for indeed we lack the capacity, resources and the heart to truly appreciate their ever supportive lifestyles.

The most intriguing part of this report....

Neighbours and policemen were reported to have stood at the gate, helpless, until the victim’s mother arrived at the scene.

Our correspondent reported that the crowd persuaded her not to go in, but she was spurred to move in after seeing one of the dogs emerge from the balcony with blood in its mouth.

Helen reportedly fought off the dogs singlehandedly and rescued her son while the crowd assisted in taking him to the hospital.

So even after the state Governor had instructed that they treat him they still abandoned the guy. Most of the time, the failure of our govt. is the product of we followers.

1stola:
Shame!
We have mostly very useless set of humans as doctors and nurses in Nigeria.
All they know how to do is to quarrel among themselves,
Demand for increase in their salaries and other senseless demands all the times,
Go on strict,
Treat patients anyhow e.t.c.
Most of them don't even worth to be called Doctors because they are very clueless and all they do is trial and errors.

That's largely because we do not have the needed equipment to do much....and in some instances....the patient is too poor to afford the stuff.

I have just come off call duty at the private hospital where I work. overnight...we had an elderly woman with a bleed in the brain due to stroke. Ideally...she would have been in a teaching hospital within minutes of the stroke...and a neurosurgeon would have operated in hours. But....she went to a small ill equiped private clinc....and by the time she got to our hospital.....it was 16 hours....vital time wasted. (And sadly....she had to leave because of funds.....).

Then there are the limited number of specialsts in Nigeria. We have just 4000 specialists for a population of 150million. (uk has two specialist family physicians for every 1000 people...and they say they do not have enough!).

Then there is the limited diagnostic equipment. Many patients die of hemorrhagic stroke in Nigeria not only because we have limited number of neurosurgeons....but because we don't have access to CT scans at our hospitals....so we cannot take quick medical decisions that would save lives.

I know some docs have bad attitudes.....but we are working under very bad conditions. During youth service....I had to treat a severely anaemic malarial child....in a rural hospital with limited facilities....and with the nearest teaching hospital 4 hours away....in the dead of night with no light. Would you blame me and the nurses there if the child did not make it?

Nigeria needs an increase in funding for health care....especially for training more medical people...and for primary and secondary health care (part of the reason why our teaching hospitals are so overwhelmed is that they see cases that should be seen at the PHC!)

it is the government that will fix the hospitals, when your hospital is under-equipped and your doctors and nurses are disgruntled?

seedsower:
May God continue to encourage, reward and protect mothers for indeed we lack the capacity, resources and the heart to truly appreciate their ever supportive lifestyles.

The most intriguing part of this report....


So even after the state Governor had instructed that they treat him they still abandoned the guy. Most of the time, the failure of our govt. is the product of we followers.

During my final year in medical school...there was a fire at a state rum boarding school dormitory. All but one of the students escaped alive....he got severely burnt. The Principal of the school in order to hide the evidence....took the student to a trado healer....who of course performed signs and wonders. By the time the State Commissioner for Education found out about the boy....and sent him to our teaching hospital(he even personally called our CMD to prepare the ground)...it was too late.

Thank God for the timely intervention of delta state govt n d NGO....


its well with you Abraham...

dhtml18:
it is the government that will fix the hospitals, when your hospital is under-equipped and your doctors and nurses are disgruntled?

Well....the govt can help by making the Teaching hospitals autonomous public private ventures.....and by redirecting funding to primary and secondary health care. They could also increase health care funding to 26% of the budget.

Part of the reason why the boy got infected at LASUTH is that maintenance of complete asepsis(that's ultra ultra cleanliness to you) in a Nigeria hospital requires equipment and materials that we do not have due to funding constraints. We also lack the right kind of equipment to do proper bacterial sensitivity tests.

mekadinho:
NAIJA HOSPITALS:
1. NO PAYMENT, NO TREATMENT.
2. MOST OF OUR NURSES ARE DAMN LAZY AND DISRESPECTFUL. AND THEY CAN GOSSIP EEH...
3. U ATTENDED 2, BASE ON UR INFLUENCE/POPULARITY IN THE SOCIETY.
4. SENIOR DOCTORS HV 3 OR 4 BED ROOMS PRIVATE HOSPITAL SOMEWHERE.
5. NURSES AND DOCTORS WILL NEVER TAKE UR CASE SERIOUS UNTIL U START SHOUTING OR THREATENING TO CALL THE COMMISSIONER/MINISTER FOR HEALTH.
6. DOCTORS OPEN PHARMACEUTICAL STORES NEAR THE HOSPITAL, AND DIRECTS THEIR PATIENTS THERE, INSTEAD OF THE HOSPITAL'S PHARMACY.
7. DOCTOR A'S REPORT WILL ALWAYS CONTRADICTS DOCTORS B'S REPORT.
8. 90% OF OUR HOSPITALS LACK PRIMARY MODERN EQUIPMENTS LIKE ANESTHESIA MACHINE, VITAL SIGNS MONITOR, SURGICAL MICROSCOPE ETC...
NOTE: I AM NOT CONDEMNING, JUST SAYING WE SHOULD IMPROVE.
AM I THE FIRST 2 COMMENT? PLS HW DO I GET MY EGO/GIFTS?

Guy stop talking about what you don't know. The hospital is not well equipped, government is running the hospital like a public primary school. I know someone working there as a nurse. She always complain about government uncare attitude towards the hospital. She said at times for weeks there won't be disinfectant in the hospital to clean up the floor.
That's one of the reason why they are on strike for the past six weeks.

The most annoying thing is that Fashola just act as if he's less concerned.

Lilknight:
German shepherd of all dogs, imagine...i was even thinkn its a rottweiler or pitbull/ bull mastiv. German shepherd are d least wide dogs among d foreign breed, cnt believe no1 out of d crowd has d effontery to scare those lazy(as they are termed naturally) dogs away. Gsd are not to be feared, they are kind of powerless their main job is nt for security rather for alertness. My gsd at home can scare d hell outta u by barking, and one code abt dog is dat they know how to sense fear in human, 1nce they sense it that u are scared of them their confidence get a booster. If to say i dey related with d family of dat boy ni, i go roast those mumu gsd/alsatian dog take them do suya while still alive. That's kind of a Trauma!!!

I don't know much about German Shepherds....but my (immediate) family once owned a German Shepherd mix(don't know pedigree of the non-German shepherd parent dog...).....who was quite ferocious to people he did not know....

happydays1:

LASUTH....AFTER THEY WILL SHOUT CHANCH , CHANCGE...NOW WHERE IS THE CHANGE ... SEE AKWAIBOM BUILDING STATE OF THE EARRTH HOSPITAL. I WILL STILL GO FOR PDP GEJ... in 2pac voice..... i see no changes......, all i see is thieves and faces.

most of these change crooners are living in mosquito infested slums in Lagos and shouting change amidst the smell of urine oozing from fashola's uncovered gutters

This topic typifies how governance in Lagos works. Fashola invited the media to witness him offering free medical aid to the child, and when the cameras shifted elsewhere, his attention shifted with the cameras. See LASUTH that Fashola has been boasting about cannot treat a common infection. God knows how many more innocent people have died from the negligence of Lagos state health officials and the politicians at the helm. If the boys father hadnt muscled his way through the filthy Lagos state bureaucracy, his son would be dead now.

This is not true. It shows how "uneducated" some of our educated Nigerians are. There is no way a wound caused by a dog bite will not have infection even if it is being treated in the best hospitals in d world! Its called a dirty wound with an infectivity rate of greater than 45%. Such wound requires patience on the part of both the doctors and the patient's relatives to heal. I know that our health institutions are far from where we ought to be but we have the best of doctors and nurses in Nigeria. I dont work in LASUTH but i KNOW that the hospital has one of the best doctors and nurses in Africa. Now the INDIANs are smart! They are into medical tourism. They will do anything to "toast" Nigerians to travel to INDIA for treatment. They know that Nigerians dont believe in their health care system and will do anything to get "foreign" treatment so they will say anything to discredit our hospitals. I have seen many Nigerians run back home with several complications from treatments in india.

rozayx5:


most of these change crooners are living in mosquito infested slums in Lagos and shouting change amidst the smell of urine oozing from fashola's uncovered gutters

Very true!

drjay1:
This is not true. It shows how "uneducated" some of our educated Nigerians are. There is no way a wound caused by a dog bite will not have infection even if it is being treated in the best hospitals in d world! Its called a dirty wound with an infectivity rate of greater than 45%. Such wound requires patience on the part of both the doctors and the patient's relatives to heal. I know that our health institutions are far from where we ought to be but we have the best of doctors and nurses in Nigeria. I dont work in LASUTH but i KNOW that the hospital has one of the best doctors and nurses in Africa. Now the INDIANs are smart! They are into medical tourism. They will do anything to "toast" Nigerians to travel to INDIA for treatment. They know that Nigerians dont believe in their health care system and will do anything to get "foreign" treatment so they will say anything to discredit our hospitals. I have seen many Nigerians run back home with several complications from treatments in india.

You're probably the doctor that wrote the useless note that was lampooned by the Indian doctors

My Advice to all is always Google ur symptoms look for the drugs that can treat d illness n proceed to a notable pharmacy for d best drugs.except it's a serious conditions dat requires hospital visit then go but while dere still Google n make suggestion cos 80% of our hospitals will focus on malaria n 90% will misdiagnose. My sister was almost cut open for apendix operation for a bladder infection.

mekadinho:
NAIJA HOSPITALS:
1. NO PAYMENT, NO TREATMENT.
2. MOST OF OUR NURSES ARE DAMN LAZY AND DISRESPECTFUL. AND THEY CAN GOSSIP EEH...
3. U ATTENDED 2, BASE ON UR INFLUENCE/POPULARITY IN THE SOCIETY.
4. SENIOR DOCTORS HV 3 OR 4 BED ROOMS PRIVATE HOSPITAL SOMEWHERE.
5. NURSES AND DOCTORS WILL NEVER TAKE UR CASE SERIOUS UNTIL U START SHOUTING OR THREATENING TO CALL THE COMMISSIONER/MINISTER FOR HEALTH.
6. DOCTORS OPEN PHARMACEUTICAL STORES NEAR THE HOSPITAL, AND DIRECTS THEIR PATIENTS THERE, INSTEAD OF THE HOSPITAL'S PHARMACY.
7. DOCTOR A'S REPORT WILL ALWAYS CONTRADICTS DOCTORS B'S REPORT.
8. 90% OF OUR HOSPITALS LACK PRIMARY MODERN EQUIPMENTS LIKE ANESTHESIA MACHINE, VITAL SIGNS MONITOR, SURGICAL MICROSCOPE ETC...
NOTE: I AM NOT CONDEMNING, JUST SAYING WE SHOULD IMPROVE.
AM I THE FIRST 2 COMMENT? PLS HW DO I GET MY EGO/GIFTS?

1. We need robust all encompassing health insurance scheme for all Nigerians no matter the background so that Doctor side of bargain (finance) would always be met.
2. Disciplinary and punitive measures should be order of the day.
3. Nepotism is the bane of our society.
4. No law prevents them from running a private health centre.
5. By the trainings they received, shouting may make you unattended to for a very long time. To catch their attention, be calm and ask your relative to do the shoutings.
6. Law of the land forbids Doctors from establishing pharmacy outlets, the pharmacists do.
7. Yes, this is possible and allowed but they have the way of harmonizing the variance at your back to better your treatment plans.
8.Nigeria is in samble a lot of things need corrections.

GOD HELP MY COUNTRY SO THAT SHE CAN BECOME A NATION.

bushdoc9919:


As a doctor....I certainly say there is room for improvement....and no gift for you BTW.

Hahaha...... That's not fair naa.. I can't celebrate my First to comment effort without my ego oh..

wazoboy:
This is how simple medical cases are said to be "home problems" by "Toronto" certified doctors we have in Nigeria, imagine just one month and the boy is coming back to life, upon the fact that our doctors we write uselessly and claim that they were trained like that now their foreign colleagues could not even get any information from their writings.
But wait o, how are we even surviving in this country called Nigeria self?

Try and grow a brain.The wound would've most likely got infected during dressing wc is not a doctor's procedure.Nigerian docs do exceptionally well when outside d shores of Nigeria,U shld knw it's d same that's dealing wt our roads,schools,education,etc that's dealing wt medical practice here.Finally,U can always go to a med sch if U r envious of docs.

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A mother's love and strength... Shame on all the spectators that left the child at the mercy of the dogs. I hope the dogs have been put to sleep and the owner charged to court (I have a dog too, btw).
No word for our medical practice here the farmers are doing better. It's not the ignorance that gets to me, its the arrogance...we need to learn how to listen to our clients. The father complained for 2 weeks!
May God help him heal well and strengthen the family.

TeamSimple:
But I got to read sumwhere that his back in Nigeria safe and sound. Wish him speedy recovery.

Correct...
Leave dat guy wey dey con post old news.

kayboy4y:
It's not a NEWS joor. What do u expect? Nurses in our various Hospitals lack Moral and Ethical consideration. All what they are after is to collect money. They are worse than Police. I pray for his quickest recovery!

all we have to pray is not to have any reason to be admited in any nigerian hospital. their callous attitude is overwhelming.

Am not surprised the child did well outside, with inadequate funding of government hospital and the ever persistent presence of fake drugs in the country, its little wonder he was better off.

duni04:

You're probably the doctor that wrote the useless note that was lampooned by the Indian doctors

Sir, i am one of the best in my field. Some people like u are experts in fault finding. U jump up and shout when u hear news like this without pausing for a second to think and investigate. But when u hear abt world class surgeries being performed in Nigerian hospitals u put on ur doubting cap and become a thomas. So u think LASUTH cannot handle a mere case of dog bite? Does that mean there has not being cases of dog bites in Nigeria, abi do we all travel to india to treat dog bite in this country? Haba! Concerning the "referral letter" are u sure it was written in LASUTH? When a patient decline ur treatment and request to be treated in another hospital for a medical condition u can treat, u dont have to give the patient a referral letter! The patient DAMAs. Discharge Against Medical Advice! Are we sure the boy did not DAMA from LASUTH to get a referral letter from anoda source? I AM NOT SAYING OUR HOSPITAL DONT HAVE PROBLEMS, am just saying we should not constantly bring down the morale of our health care workers that are trying their best in the harsh working environment they find themselves. When our doctors compete in foreign exams, they come out as d best, and u guys are here killing their morale! Its unfair!

drjay1:
This is not true. It shows how "uneducated" some of our educated Nigerians are. There is no way a wound caused by a dog bite will not have infection even if it is being treated in the best hospitals in d world! Its called a dirty wound with an infectivity rate of greater than 45%. Such wound requires patience on the part of both the doctors and the patient's relatives to heal. I know that our health institutions are far from where we ought to be but we have the best of doctors and nurses in Nigeria. I dont work in LASUTH but i KNOW that the hospital has one of the best doctors and nurses in Africa. Now the INDIANs are smart! They are into medical tourism. They will do anything to "toast" Nigerians to travel to INDIA for treatment. They know that Nigerians dont believe in their health care system and will do anything to get "foreign" treatment so they will say anything to discredit our hospitals. I have seen many Nigerians run back home with several complications from treatments in india.

You just don't make sense. Can you compare an average Nigerian Hospital to an average Indian Hospital? They are not on the same level. Imagine a country where Doctors go on strike for months.

drjay1:

Sir, i am one of the best in my field. Some people like u are experts in fault finding. U jump up and shout when u hear news like this without pausing for a second to think and investigate. But when u hear abt world class surgeries being performed in Nigerian hospitals u put on ur doubting cap and become a thomas. So u think LASUTH cannot handle a mere case of dog bite? Does that mean there has not being cases of dog bites in Nigeria, abi do we all travel to india to treat dog bite in this country? Haba! Concerning the "referral letter" are u sure it was written in LASUTH? When a patient decline ur treatment and request to be treated in another hospital for a medical condition u can treat, u dont have to give the patient a referral letter! The patient DAMAs. Discharge Against Medical Advice! Are we sure the boy did not DAMA from LASUTH to get a referral letter from anoda source? I AM NOT SAYING OUR HOSPITAL DONT HAVE PROBLEMS, am just saying we should not constantly bring down the morale of our health care workers that are trying their best in the harsh working environment they find themselves. When our doctors compete in foreign exams, they come out as d best, and u guys are here killing their morale! Its unfair!

Mtshewww! You're one of the problems of the health care sector in Nigeria. Instead of calling a spade a spade, and painting black as black and white as white, you're busy looking for different shades of white and black. Nonsense!

dokyOloye:
Try and grow a brain.The wound would've most likely got infected during dressing wc is not a doctor's procedure.Nigerian docs do exceptionally well when outside d shores of Nigeria,U shld knw it's d same that's dealing wt our roads,schools,education,etc that's dealing wt medical practice here.Finally,U can always go to a med sch if U r envious of docs.

yea, im envious of doctors, the indian, american, south african doctors but definitly not nigerian doctors! Nigerian doctors always cover-up their inefficencies by telling their patients to "go and follow their problems the traditional ways" and when you carry such problem outside you are treated within days!

bushdoc9919:


That's largely because we do not have the needed equipment to do much....and in some instances....the patient is too poor to afford the stuff.

I have just come off call duty at the private hospital where I work. overnight...we had an elderly woman with a bleed in the brain due to stroke. Ideally...she would have been in a teaching hospital within minutes of the stroke...and a neurosurgeon would have operated in hours. But....she went to a small ill equiped private clinc....and by the time she got to our hospital.....it was 16 hours....vital time wasted. (And sadly....she had to leave because of funds.....).

Then there are the limited number of specialsts in Nigeria. We have just 4000 specialists for a population of 150million. (uk has two specialist family physicians for every 1000 people...and they say they do not have enough!).

Then there is the limited diagnostic equipment. Many patients die of hemorrhagic stroke in Nigeria not only because we have limited number of neurosurgeons....but because we don't have access to CT scans at our hospitals....so we cannot take quick medical decisions that would save lives.

I know some docs have bad attitudes.....but we are working under very bad conditions. During youth service....I had to treat a severely anaemic malarial child....in a rural hospital with limited facilities....and with the nearest teaching hospital 4 hours away....in the dead of night with no light. Would you blame me and the nurses there if the child did not make it?

Nigeria needs an increase in funding for health care....especially for training more medical people...and for primary and secondary health care (part of the reason why our teaching hospitals are so overwhelmed is that they see cases that should be seen at the PHC!)

You have precisely 3 Neurosurgeons in Nigeria. In GH Lagos Island, doctors can't do PCR test (so when Ebola came, all Lagos doctors were scared, those that trained in Uniben even more so, because no-one had taught them how to do the test, even though Edo state has the most experience with Haemoraghic fevers).

Nurses from School of Nursing nowadays are taught a lot of Theory and little practicals. And most are not very good.

The machines at LUTH are so outdated, CT scan machine either caught on fire (last year) or they will take light. Same with Endoscopy at GH Lagos Island, no-one knows how to use the machine.

It isn't just equipment that is your problem in the Nigerian medical field. Most of you are badly trained (I have had doctors prescribe Cimetidine at a child's dosage, when I was in my 20s, I've had doctors declare I had Cerebral Malaria, when it is more common in children and young adults, I have had doctors treat me for all sorts, doubling anti-biotics without being able to write a clear referral, suspecting I had PID without a single test to rule it out etc). I have seen a doctor take out a clean appendix because the patient was constipated, I have seen doctors not accurately know that a patient with the right symptoms and age was having mini-strokes, they kept prescribing painkiller upon painkiller. I saw doctors who didn't know how to do examinations on the pelvis of a patient who had been treated a year ago for fibroids and was having pelvic pain be prescribed so much Diclofenac Sodium she OD'ed and they didn't know how to do charcoal activation to clear her bloodstream and could merely put her on drip, I have seen a patient die of a thyroid sugery that is a one-day affair in US on a Nigerian hospital, last week someone broke his arm and was taken to Igbobi, this week he died of an infection. I have seen asthma treated as malaria and they doctors treating the patient didn't know how to use the nebuliser the patient's parents brought. The patient's parents then had to donate 5 second-hand ones to the hospital, so that mistake never happened to another child.

You guys have to be trained properly. I'm speaking because I personally, off the top of my head, can count 2 Consultant Pediatricians, One Dermatologist, 1 consultant Gynaecologist, One Surgeon, 1 Neurosurgeon, I can't remember the last 2 what they studied and all of them either taught at LUTH or worked at UCH, Uniben, GH or another major teaching hospital.

None of them think half the doctors in Nigeria should be practicing, half of them think most of the teaching hospitals should lose their license to train certain fields of study (like Surgery in Medilag). All of them wonder why their colleagues don't further their education. Most of them don't trust their valuable patients to nurses (when one had a patient who needed to be monitored overnight for internal bleeding and his wound drained, he told doctors to do it and forbade nurses close to the patient).

I am sorry, but I really feel that firstly no doctors should be allowed to graduate, and massive enforced training for all doctors should be done for 5 years, overhaul all the medical schools, with upgraded equipment. Yearly testing of doctors should commence for another 5 years. We need a govt that should assume we have no doctors in Nigeria and place the country under a National Medical Emergency so we take drastic measures.

It is so bad that none of my family members will be allowed even in the smallest surgery in Nigeria, not even childbirth is an option in the nicest private hospital in Nigeria. I have doctors in my family and when they hear you're pregnant, will ask you when you're flying out to have the baby because they have lost confidence in 70% of their own colleagues.

And that is a shame.

duni04:

Mtshewww! You're one of the problems of the health care sector in Nigeria. Instead of calling a spade a spade, and painting black as black and white as white, you're busy looking for different shades of white and black. Nonsense!

Call a spade a spade? I have never said we dont have our challenges. I have never said we dont have bad eggs in our health institutions. All i have said is that we should not be experts in fault finding. I have said we should consider all news, find out the truth before we "generalise". LASUTH has doctors that are envied all over the world! The plastic surgery unit of LASUTH(the unit that manage cases like the boys') have done many world class cases! So because someone has access to the media, u dont rubbish the works of such great men! Its unfair! When i hear true news of mismanagement and inappropriate conduct by doctors, i will criticise them constructively! I will not open my mouth wide and start saying ALL Nigerian doctors are bad... Bla bla bla.. Thats calling a spade a spade!

God punish all doctors and nurses who neglect their patients. May God never let them prosper as doctors let porverty chase them out of hospitals into the streets for alternative jobs.

I lost my mom and my 18 month old neice to wicked doctors and nurses. A family friend lost his mom due to these same breed of doctors and nurses. How wicked can some people be?

so them let the landlord and the dogs go free ni?

But o, so police could not shoot or tame those dogs? No obe could stone their heads or use a log to flog them to death?

happydays1:

LASUTH....AFTER THEY WILL SHOUT CHANCH , CHANCGE...NOW WHERE IS THE CHANGE ... SEE AKWAIBOM BUILDING STATE OF THE EARRTH HOSPITAL. I WILL STILL GO FOR PDP GEJ... in 2pac voice..... i see no changes......, all i see is thieves and faces.

You have to be kidding me


In other news Indian drs be insulting Nigerian drs because of medical tourism.

Nigerians as usual never respect the prophet at home, always quick to shift blame and lay abuse.

Though some drs are assholes and nurses are real witches ( psians).

This doesn't make every medical staff inefficient or evil


It struck my mind over the complaint of payment by the father after instructions from the governor and I laughed and laughed.

When its time to balance account cmd would be scratching his head. He no get that time Oga governor for release funds. You guys have no idea how govt works at all.