In the cause of negligence by Doctors and Nurses in Nigerian Hospital, many lives have been cut short. On many occasions, hospitals have rejected victims of accident and individuals in an urgent need of medical attention, who if they had attended to, would still be alive today. Obviously majority of the Nigerian doctors and nurses lack sympathy and humane consciousness, they have less regard for fellow human, perhaps, it is the reason they behave the way they do. In a recent and a heartbreaking death of a 6 months old baby that shook Fagba residence in Lagos as a result of negligence by the nurse attending to the baby. According to the bereaved family of the child, the incident took place in private hospital called Ayodele Hospital in Fagba off Iju Road. It was reported that the baby was brought to the hospital on Saturday February 6, 2016. Before taking the baby to Ayodele Hospital at Fagba, he was taken to Ifako Ijaiye General Hospital on Wednesday February 3, 2016 for treatment as a result of teething fever. The boy was apparently running high fever as a result of teething problem. At the General hospital he was given injection to bring down the temperature and after all was discharged. On Saturday morning the temperature started rising again. The mother took the baby back to the hospital and was told that there was no bed space and was referred to Ayinke Hospital in Ikeja. Considering the distance and all the troubles so far, the father decided to take him to a big private hospital around. That was how the baby was taken to Ayodele in Fagba. At the private hospital he was admitted and they tried getting the vein in order to pass drip and administer medication. They could not get the vein easily so they decided using the vein in the head. They started administering the drip. Few minutes later, they told the parents that the baby is not breathing fine due to the catarrh he had, that they have to place him on oxygen. After some hours, the light went off. They called the nurses to inform the gateman to put on the generator and for an hour the hospital did not respond accordingly. The baby gave up after gasping for breath. The parents watched their baby die for what could be avoided. The father was so traumatized and enraged at such negligence and the placing of the baby at the waste bin as if it was a dog that died. Regardless of what the enraged father just lost, the hospital further called the police to arrest him. Despite all the negligence and pain the hospital caused the family, they still demanded for the payment of N38, 000 before they can take the corpse of their dead baby home for burial. However, there’s an urgent need for the Government to look into these hospitals that reject and neglect patients. They should be sanctioned and duly prosecuted for the many lives lost for their carelessness, negligence and act of rejecting patients they could try to revitalise and revive to life.

Lalasticala