TheGoodJoe:


What stopped the hospital management from securing PPEs even though is small scale for highly suspected cases? They are working and there is a possibility of asymptomatic carriers. Depending on government alone is not the solution when the government have decided to remain docile.

snowblaq:


So blame the government and not the practitioners.... In saner countries the government makes this provisions. I have a dad who's a doctor and I'd rather have him not treat a suspected case than have him exposed to a potential carrier.... And then he has to treat himself with his own funds?... No way....

Correcto:
Trash!!!!! Doctors hiding under Protection. Doctors in UNTH have fair amount of protection equipment but are just afraid. See in New York some nurses and doctors were reusing PPEs which is dangerous but they never ran away from their patients. Doctors in Nigeria are in for their money only.

DanseMacabre:


I don't quite get your drift sir.

TheGoodJoe:


He should resign and let those who can find a way to deal with the challenges of the job handle it. Doctor is not by force. The Doctors around the World risking their lives know what they signed for and swore an oath too.

These Doctors are paid salaries too. They can sacrifice for personal PPEs to protect their lives too. Than standing as a health worker and watching a woman die helplessly for 3 hours.

TheGoodJoe:


He should resign and let those who can find a way to deal with the challenges of the job handle it. Doctor is not by force. The Doctors around the World risking their lives know what they signed for and swore an oath too.

These Doctors are paid salaries too. They can sacrifice for personal PPEs to protect their lives too. Than standing as a health worker and watching a woman die helplessly for 3 hours.

DanseMacabre:
Tragic.

To be candid though, I'd rather put the blame on the failed government than on the medical personnel. The behaviour of the medical personnel towards the man's wife is a fallout of the government's refusal to provide them with equipment for fighting this virus.

snowblaq:


The doctors risking their lives around the world have PPE sir...
How much are the doctors paid Oga?.... Until it's your relative that's at the front line then you'll understand. It's always easier said than done....

Joshialex:


Your ignorance seems ancestral!!!

spiceadole:
The medical personnels were in order.

No PPE...Run for your life!

Every patient right now is handled as a suspected Covid-19 case.
How much more with such complaints.

Medical personnels also have families and loved ones..Many are breadwinners too.

May the soul of the departed rest in peace.

TheGoodJoe:


Not true at all. Many are working with inadequate supply of PPEs. Many across the World.

snowblaq:


And you did not read the part where working without PPE made most of them sick and die of the virus?... My dear, wisdom is profitable to direct. No PPE, no work... Focus this energy on holding the failed government accountable instead of directing it to health care workers who have to also prevent not just themselves but their families back home from getting infected and dying.

snowblaq:


And you did not read the part where working without PPE made most of them sick and die of the virus?... My dear, wisdom is profitable to direct. No PPE, no work... Focus this energy on holding the failed government accountable instead of directing it to health care workers who have to also prevent not just themselves but their families back home from getting infected and dying.

DanseMacabre:


Is the bolded a fact sir?

As for insinuating I'm 'covering up for them', how so?

Tell me who wouldn't join in condemning them if they had PPE but refused to attend to her.

TheGoodJoe:


What stopped the hospital management from securing PPEs even though is small scale for highly suspected cases? They are working and there is a possibility of asymptomatic carriers. Depending on government alone is not the solution when the government have decided to remain docile.

Amhappy:


They had PPEs.

pweeryambre:

I know for a fact that majority of doctors in Nigeria as whole are just in it for the money, they study medicine in school, then cram text books and formula and pass and then start chasing their residence in federal hospitals, with zero passion to save life's, very arrogant too, also very stingy, with all the money they are been paid, I know this because I work with them. it's quite unfortunate.

Correcto:
Trash!!!!! Doctors hiding under Protection. Doctors in UNTH have fair amount of protection equipment but are just afraid. See in New York some nurses and doctors were reusing PPEs which is dangerous but they never ran away from their patients. Doctors in Nigeria are in for their money only.

Amhappy:


They had PPE. Got this info from a reliable source. Some people has collected query because of the death of this woman. A lot of big names were concerned hearing this kind of story from UNTH.

Gr8amechi:

See the way you guys channel your hatred wrongly is sadden.
A governor spent 500 million for none existent isolation centre, no ppe and a suspected case comes and you expect health workers to attend to her ?? If your wife or son is the doctor would you allow him??

See as a doctor I wouldn't go near any patient without ppe, for your information recent studies even show ppe don't profer 100% protection against the virus, politician eat money and you expect doctors to sacrifice their lives for the politician??

sandysaint:


Does this make sense to you? If your sibling is a health care worker, would you be happy they saw a patient with suspected Covid-19 without basic protection and came home back to you?

Simple PPE, your government will not provide. Doctor will die, your minister of health will come and say it was his fault.

PPE's are only made available to the taskforce on Covid-19 in hospitals now whereas every health care worker in this pandemic should be wearing a PPE

OdefaGirl:
"Doctors At UNTH Watched My Wife Die Like A Foul Without Helping Her For Fear Of Coronavirus"

-Husband

A 40-year-old man, Mr Nwachukwu Alagbu, has accused medical doctors at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital UNTH, Ituku Ozalla, Enugu state, of killing his wife for the fear of been contracting the dreaded Coronavirus.

The man who cried profusely over the death of his wife with four children behind, explain to our Correspondent that; “my wife, late Mrs Nkiru Alagbu, was a 35-year-old woman who developed cardiovascular disorder shortly after her last child more than a year ago.

“Her medical condition had been waxing and waning, especially after every treatment.

“In January 2020, my wife developed the following symptoms: fever, breathlessness, chest pain, morbid weakness, and excessive sweating and loss of appetite. Her illness made my lovely wife visit so many hospitals until Tuesday (14th April 2020) when she had to be referred to a diagnostic Clinic in Enugu for some investigations.

“Right there, the good-spirited Consultant in that Clinic promptly referred her to a cardiologist for immediate attention when he noticed her major health challenge was cardiovascular disease”.

Continuing, Alagbu said “this action heralded our travails. For the avoidance of doubt, my wife and I had not traveled outside Enugu and Anambra States in the last five years. We had never come in contact with anyone diagnosed or suspected of having COVID-19.

“Unfortunately, by the period we got to the private hospital in Enugu in the morning on 15-04-2020, we were directed to Enugu State University Teaching Hospital Parklane GRA, Enugu. At ESUTH Parklane, they informed us their hospital did not have a functional Trolley or wheelchair to wheel my wife to the ward and that the hospital wards were full without empty beds.

“In frustration, I immediately took her to UNTH, Ituku/Ozalla. That was where the worst happened. A doctor came and from a prescribe social distance asked some few questions. Quickly, he concluded that, it was a case of COVID-19. Immediately myself, my brother’s wife and a family friend who offered to accompany us to the hospital started crying because none of the medical personnel on duty in the hospital Emergency cared to assist after my late wife was tagged a COVID-19 case. At this time my wife whispered to my ear, that I should not allow her die. I saw my wife in pain and she keep telling me that she would not die. I cried my eyes out when i learnt that the consultant cardiologist called UNTH, informing them to admit my wife for him. That he was coming to take over her treatment, but they ignored him, saying my wife was a Coronavirus patient.

“Within a short while, after the doctor made that COVID-19 proclamation, all the medical personnel disappeared. No one bothered to come close to her while she was lying in the car helpless. And after waiting for more than 30 minutes, I saw my brother’s wife ( A Consultant’ wife) crying uncontrollably, and handing her phone to a doctor so that the husband could explain the health situation of my wife to him.

“My brother later informed me what the doctor said. He said that they had started making efforts to contact the COVID-19 medical team that would handle the case of my wife.

“He told me that the doctor he spoke with on the phone was so rude and that that UNTH doctor started accusing him of threatening him after informing him that he had to make efforts to sustain the sick alive while they make their efforts at confirming or ruling out the COVID-19.

“All attempts made by my brother to convince them that my wife was not a COVID-19 case proved abortive”, Alagbu added.

He continued: “I have never felt so incapacitated like this since I was born some 40 years ago. I saw my wife die like a foul in a hospital, and the doctors turned their backs at her and worked away without pity or compassion, he wept.

“They allowed my wife to die unattended to, all in the name of fear of COVID-19. Medical doctors watched my wife die like a soulless being. I thought it was a local movie playing when I could not get help from the Government Hospital, simply because the doctors felt my wife had COVID-19 symptom.

“I knew the worst could have happened. But, I kept calm. To my most considerable chagrin, it took the person of the Chief Medical Director of the hospital to attend to her personally and certify her dead after the sick had been in the hospital for hours without the desired attention.

“It is a sad history in my whole life watching the mother of my children died like a foul. The hospital could not open a folder or card. She came to the hospital, died after about three hours while in a car”.

At that point, Nkiru’s body was taken away from UNTH Enugu to a private mortuary.

While calling on Enugu state governor, Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), to urgently intervened on the matter, Mr. Alagbu, asked If indeed the case was a COVID-19 case, “how come there were no efforts put in place for sample collection even after death, what measures did the hospital put in place to safeguard the mortuary staff?, Why did it take the hospital hours to wear their PPE and attend to the patient? What is the hope of ordinary men in our Nigeria hospital today? How come the whole fear of COVID-19 disappeared as soon as the patient died? I am heart-wrecked because my wife died leaving behind four children, the eldest is 11 year old.

“This wicked doctors watched my wife die like a foul for a purported fear of COVID-19”, he cried via telephone.

When contacted on the allegation the chairman UNTH, Medical Advisory Committee, Dr. Valentine Ogwu, he said he was in a meeting and promised to called back which he never did after several calls and text messages.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/how-doctors-abandoned-my-wife-to-die-over-covid-19-suspicion.html

RTSC:

That is the problem.
We have very few doctors. Real doctors called to the profession.

What we have are science students who hated maths, have a flair for biology and decided to study medicine because they heard that doctors are respected and rich or because of their parents.

Most were not destined or called to be doctors.

There are doctors in war zones risking their lives for humanity.

You know those ones are called to be doctors.

A real doctor should not watch someone die because of PPE, especially when there is no certainty that the fellow is infected in the first place.

Princewell2012:
So the doctor can not lay their hands on any nose mask and hand glove to attend to the woman? hmm but when she died they were nolonger afraid of her corps. Does it mean that the dead body of an affected person can not be transmited if it get in contact to another person?

Amhappy:


They had PPE. Got this info from a reliable source. Some people has collected query because of the death of this woman. A lot of big names were concerned hearing this kind of story from UNTH.