A medical doctor, Chinoso Egemba has urged Nigerians to demand a better healthcare system from the government.

Egemba said this in a series of tweets on his official twitter handle in reaction to allegations that a graduate Obafemi Awolowo University, Moradeun Balogun stabbed by armed robbers was refused treatment by a Jolad Hospital, a private hospital in Gbagada.

The medical doctor explaining what could have led to the hospital referring her to Gbagada General Hospital said the healthcare system in Nigeria is broken.

See his tweet below…

It could have been anyone Me, you. A stab wound to the neck is most likely a death sentence in resource poor areas Nigeria is a resource poor area. This is true

The flow through the carotid artery, just at the side of the neck is roughly about 400mls every minute

The average volume of blood in a person is about 5 litres.

A person would bleed out in minutes. If you set a line and put a drip in, you’re not replacing the blood, you’re just replacing the volume in the vessels. You have to know what to do immediately to stop the blood loss

Most private hospitals in Lagos are not equipped for major trauma like this, hospitals are in levels, the highest levels are the teaching hospitals in a country.

You’d need vascular surgeons,(people who repair vessels) cardiothoracic, general etc, you’d need a whole team

You’d need blood and fast! Lots of it. Most private hospitals don’t have blood stocked, they have to request for them.

A well equipped hospital or emergency centre will have all these I’m not trying to exonerate anyone, I just want you to know how easy it is to die here.

You can’t just stitch up a blood vessel, that blood vessel is one of two that sends blood to the brain. It’s also elastic which means that it retracts. It’s goes “inside” when you cut.

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