donodion:
Hahahahaha Osisi Obama..so you could be unhappy with healthcare system in Nigeria nde? but I thought you are staunch supporter of GEJ government and prefer his continuance or is GEJ no longer working?. Hohohoho

babyosisi:
You folks think the average roadside clinic can handle a gun shot wound or accident victim.

They can't help the patients much even if they wanted to,they don't have the necessary equipment needed to do that,neither do they have the expertise for the most part.
Even here in the USA ,severe trauma and gun shot patients don't just end up at the nearest hospital and even when they do it's just for stabilization before they are taken by mediflight to trauma centers equipped to handle such.

You folks are demanding too much from people who have no knowledge,no experience and no training in handling things like this.

Most of these doctors probably just have an MBBS and nothing more

The facilities have no in house labs,X-ray or scan machines,no blood bank let alone more sophisticated equipment needed to stabilize such patients and certainly cannot perform the life saving surgeries these patients need.

They operate with much limitation,truth be told

Most are actually glorified dispensaries

The police report is just a way to send them away to go die elsewhere and not in their facility

The most they can do is put a drip in the patients arm if they can find a visible vein and watch him die

The average Nigerian so-called hospital can't do much for you beyond malaria and appendicitis if you're lucky

Let us remember the plight of DJDOLA ,two months in a Lagos hospital and millions of naira and they couldn't even give a definitive diagnosis and used our friend for experiment ,treating him for everything else and making up diagnosis along the way while billing the patient and smiling to the bank.

That should be an eye opener

400billionman:


What has this got to do with the President ?

Just don't get how some people reason ? Were the hospitals working before Jonathan assumed leadership and destroyed them ?

Smh 4 you..

babyosisi:


Doctors in Nigeria are generally heartless
They care nothing about their patients,human lives mean nothing to them and their nurses
The reception has a standing order not to let anyone without the stipulated thousands get past the outpatient department no matter how sick
All they are after is how much they milk from the ignorant helpless citizens

Your above comment is a little ignorant if i may say, if i treated everyone who came in to my hospital without collecting any funds who will pay the bill at the end of the month?
Will you let me live in your house for free because i am a doctor? Will i get free food in the market because i am a nurse?
Do i get exemption from paying my way because i work in a hospital? Simple economics means we can't treat anyone for free..
My reward may indeed be in heaven but my unfortunately bills are on earth where i live amongst the rest of the human race
Comments like this fan the flames of ill will towards healthcare professionals and this is a dangerous trend, most of have left and more will leave

A nigerian doctor will keep a patient for weeks and pour infusion ( drip) down their arms endlessly without a diagnosis
Diagnosing your illness is not a priority,many don't care about that,they are after the payment of the bills
That's why a patient with a treatable ailment will walk in with both legs and leave in a casket
Butchers many of them

I accept this does happen but you can't tar everyone with the same brush, the ministry of health does not regulate doctors or hospitals in nigeria or monitor the activities of clinic and hospitals, thats why i can rent a 3 bedroom hospital put a bed and a reception desk, throw a stethoscope round my neck and hire a school dropout as a nurse, blame the government and the ministries, they are just salary paying organisations

In all my years living and working in the USA I have never heard of a single woman I know or a woman known by anyone I know die while having a baby but in Nigeria it's a minute by minute occurrence.
People with normal uncomplicated pregnancies die daily at childbirth in nigerian hospitals due to negligence and malpractice and the families have no recourse.

True, this is the state of the nation and nigeria has one of the highest if not the highest rates of maternal and perinatal deaths in the world, elections are coming, you know what to do.. but are the politicians whether APC or PDP willing to stand up and take notice?


Ever wonder why these folks don't let patients in on what is ailing them?
Ever wonder why they scratch off the names on the medication bottles they give you?
Ever wonder why they get angry when a concerned doctor calls to chat about a patient in their care and course of treatment?

The same corruption,heartlessness and greed that has permeated every sector of Nigeria is also rife in the hospitals
Why should anyone be surprised?

You get what you pay for, you pay peanuts and you get a monkey as a doctor! healthcare ain't cheap

Redoil:
Oddly and saddly babyosis is not far from the truth. But why have she decided to wash our dirty pants in public?

naijafresh:


An eye opener it will be indeed, you get what you pay for. Medical care is not cheap anywhere in the world but life is cheap in Nigeria.

donodion:

what has the poor service delivery of the hospital not got to do with your president? Does he and members if his family receive medical treatment in the country when they are ill? How many progressive countries do you see their president jetting out for common diarrhoea? What changes has your president brought into the health care system of the country since he took over?
Tanoid ,smh for yourself ,your president and your likes.

naijafresh:


An eye opener it will be indeed, you get what you pay for. Medical care is not cheap anywhere in the world but life is cheap in Nigeria.

ribbit:
what condition are you talking about exactly? Have you really been to standard Nigerian hospital lately? Some of the hospitals are state of the art... But most Nigerian doctors just simply suck. Most goes into the profession for prestige and not exactly for passion. No research, nothing nothing... They can only handle small sickness like malaria... The surgeons are the suckest.. If Nigeria surgeon operates on 10 patients, there is probability that 5 would die.. Go to general hospitals and see something yourself.

400billionman:


Don't insult me with that name TANoid. I don't Carr what it means.

Jonathan is fixing the roads, railways, car industry, airports, then because of one Babyosisi thread on one Nigerian site called Nairaland, one boy starts heaping insults on the President because of the healthcare system that has been a National disaster since 1960.

Everything in Nigeria has been comatose even the supply and distribution chain of PMS, GPO and the others. Tell me one thing that was functioning perfectly well before Jonathan assumed leadership from Yaradua. Then Jonathan's tenure now destroyed it. That's the only way I will continue chatting with you.

Why is Jonathan now the magician that every Nigerian wants him to perform in 4 years magic that OBJ didn't perform in 8 years, IBB didn't perform in 5 years, Abacha didn't perform in 5 years ?

What exactly is you guys beef with Jonathan ?

tuoyoojo:
It amazes me how people are so quick to take a swipe at doctors yet when they are sick they run to them to perform miracles.

Stop hiding behind a faceless forum to spill thrash. If u have issues with how a doctor managed u, walk up to him n tell him or her a tenth of d bullsh*t u guys r spilling out if u gat d balls to do dat.

What stops u from seeking legal redress against any act of preceived misconduct.bunch of ungrateful assholess!

Come to my consulting room n talk shit if dem born u well

9jatatafo:
Most naija doctors are just after money. I am diabetic and the doctor who was managing the condition was dare DEVIL, I almost died and I developed neuropathy because of his useless advise and treatment not until I met an old family friend who is a gynea that God used in bringing me back to life and still having foot pains. a doctor who could not tell me to get a common glucose meter to be checking my sugar level always, instead he will say come to the hospital for your test always.

ribbit:
what condition are you talking about exactly? Have you really been to standard Nigerian hospital lately? Some of the hospitals are state of the art... But most Nigerian doctors just simply suck. Most goes into the profession for prestige and not exactly for passion. No research, nothing nothing... They can only handle small sickness like malaria... The surgeons are the suckest.. If Nigeria surgeon operates on 10 patients, there is probability that 5 would die.. Go to general hospitals and see something yourself.

desertboom:

armadeo:



Do you have any facts/ figures to back this up?

babyosisi:
You folks think the average roadside clinic can handle a gun shot wound or accident victim.

They can't help the patients much even if they wanted to,they don't have the necessary equipment needed to do that,neither do they have the expertise for the most part.
Even here in the USA ,severe trauma and gun shot patients don't just end up at the nearest hospital and even when they do it's just for stabilization before they are taken by mediflight to trauma centers equipped to handle such.

You folks are demanding too much from people who have no knowledge,no experience and no training in handling things like this.

Most of these doctors probably just have an MBBS and nothing more

The facilities have no in house labs,X-ray or scan machines,no blood bank let alone more sophisticated equipment needed to stabilize such patients and certainly cannot perform the life saving surgeries these patients need.

They operate with much limitation,truth be told

Most are actually glorified dispensaries

The police report is just a way to send them away to go die elsewhere and not in their facility

The most they can do is put a drip in the patients arm if they can find a visible vein and watch him die

The average Nigerian so-called hospital can't do much for you beyond malaria and appendicitis if you're lucky

Let us remember the plight of DJDOLA ,two months in a Lagos hospital and millions of naira and they couldn't even give a definitive diagnosis and used our friend for experiment ,treating him for everything else and making up diagnosis along the way while billing the patient and smiling to the bank.

That should be an eye opener

porka:


Late Prof. Dora Akunyili's case was mishandled by your gods though.

Family sources have told SaharaReporters that Dora Akunyili, a former professor of pharmacy, former director general of the National Agency for Foods and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), and one-time Minister of Information, died of complications arising from uterine cancer.

One relative told SaharaReporters that Mrs. Akunyili was completely healthy until she lost the Anambra senatorial election in 2011 to Senator Chris Ngige.

The source stated that, at the end of the legal tussle over the election, the former minister visited the U.S. in 2013 to undergo what she thought would be a routine medical checkup. "Her doctor in America did a hysterectomy and found out that she had a malignant endometrial cancer," said this source. He added that it was the tumor that eventually took her life last week in a hospital in the Indian city of Bangalore after she had struggled with the disease for two years.

Another family source stated that Mrs. Akunyili had received the best treatment after undergoing surgery to remove the tumor, but disclosed that the cancer was of such malignant state that it resisted therapy.

One of the two sources revealed that Mrs. Akunyili maintained an optimistic spirit throughout her illness. "She never once believed that she would succumb to the disease," he said. "Instead, she returned to Nigeria determined to fight the disease." He added that the former minister was so upbeat about triumphing over the sickness that she accepted her nomination as a delegate to the ongoing National Confab in Abuja. Her emaciated appearance at the conference was the first sign that she was seriously ill.

ribbit:
go to general Hospital yourself.

armadeo:


Been there. They dont have your statistics. Maybe they forged records to cover it up that's why I asked if you have it.

Evvilgenius:
If words were taxed, few will be rich. If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Babyosisi or whatever the OP calls herself is just another attention seeking psychotic on the loose. Someone that doesn't know the differences in the structures and functions of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare is not worth any response.

Nigerian doctors have proven over and over again that they are superb and that they just need a conducive environment to manifest.

Fact is, if you can work in a low-resource setting where you depend more on your clinical skills to make diagnosis, then you'll definitely excel where resources abound and every investigation can easily be requested.

ribbit:
they kill people like chicken there... Even over small surgery that doesn't what dying for... Like appendix surgery and stuff. Im a victim of these fake ass doctors and surgeons... So I know what I'm talking about.

Egbagirl:
Those criticizing the OP are guilty of the same thing they accuse her of doing. The fact that you, as a doctor, are different from the "typical" Nigerian doctor described or have worked in a hospital different from what was described does not mean that every doctor/hospital in the 36 states across the country is the same as you/yours. You can only speak for yourself, your colleagues, and where you work/have worked.

You can't speak on behalf of all doctors in Nigeria just because you all have an "oath" or went through the same system etc. That doesn't mean jack squat. Are all doctors supposed to abide by their code of ethics etc and practice according to the books? Yes. Do all of them do that? No. The reasons have already been listed in previous posts.

I was talking to a friend who was a medical doctor in Nigeria about DJDOLA's case and he kept on yelling and disagreeing with me that it was impossible for the hospital to not diagnose the sickness for that long. He didn't know the details and I shared what I gathered from here with him but he vehemently refused like he was even there with the doctors in Nigeria. According to him, there is a certain code that all doctors have to abide by and all. We need to open our eyes and face reality not the ideal. Let us accept that the system is broken. It is still running but definitely not in the most efficient/effective way.

Bushdoc has been quite fair in his comments though. He recognizes the shortcomings of the system.

Btw, the OP's post might have come off as condescending etc but that should be the least of our worries right now. It is a generalization of the whole Nigerian health sector but it goes to show that something is wrong because what she has described is common in many places. Glean the important points from the post.

babyosisi:
My relative was a patient at one of the best hospitals Nigeria claims to have
I could fill a textbook with the experiences,I have written some earlier
You need to get a cooler with ice and travel miles to buy blood
Imagine that?
In 2015 this is medical practice in the giant of Africa
Then you almost have to hover around the lab to make sure they are cross matching the right blood if not,you family member will die
Being sick in Nigeria is scary
Nothing works
Most so called hospitals don't even have running water neither can you trust the gloves in the nurse's hands hadn't been used next door too
The nurse is interested in their own protection not yours

Patient falling off beds and dying from falls because nigerian hospitals don't realize safety should be regarded
No guardrails on beds
Of course no call lights to alert a nurse,not that you expect them to come anyway
A patient in distress is on their own
If no family member is around,he could be dead for hours before being discovered

pwerrymansion:
I lost 2 of my family friend to gas explosion unfortunately @ the time the doctors went striking. We had no option that to take them to a private clinic where they did little or nothing to salvage them. The Doctors and Nurses where non-chalant. A female Doctoor even made a statement as wicked as " whether they survive or not, that her salaries must be paid". They allowed the burns to get septic and both mother and teenage dota died!