FreeStuffsNG:
What a horrible reporting by Vanguard.

Looks like a blog post with so much incoherent and poorly arranged points with primary, secondary, tertiary and quarternary sources that ended up fouling up the whole story.

It is so bad that the reporter did not even know the name of the wife and son of the deceased yet kept on addressing them as "wife " and "son" and didn't even know that this is not likely malaria so he could get the view of experts on those symptoms similar to covid-19 symptoms.
Vanguard never reached any of the facilities accused to get their version and it ended up making the report unbalanced and not credible.


I pray that God will help our media rise above pettiness and mediocrity . This report is disgraceful. I don't even know if the profession has an agency that monitors the practitioners. I pity folks still buying a newspaper with such low quality reporting.

What do u need his family names for? And what is confusing about the account of events? The refusal to place a man with breathing problems suspected to be covid on oxygen or refusal to check his pulse and resuscitate him or refusal to listen to a consultant introduced by the family cos he’s foreign?

Very arrogant, useless and unprofessional doctor. He must be sued and held responsible for that man’s death.

Nigerian medical professionals are not used to CPR.

FreeStuffsNG:
What a horrible reporting by Vanguard.

Looks like a blog post with so much incoherent and poorly arranged points with primary, secondary, tertiary and quarternary sources that ended up fouling up the whole story.

It is so bad that the reporter did not even know the name of the wife and son of the deceased yet kept on addressing them as "wife " and "son" and didn't even know that this is not likely malaria so he could get the view of experts on those symptoms similar to covid-19 symptoms.
Vanguard never reached any of the facilities accused to get their version and it ended up making the report unbalanced and not credible.


I pray that God will help our media rise above pettiness and mediocrity . This report is disgraceful. I don't even know if the profession has an agency that monitors the practitioners. I pity folks still buying a newspaper with such low quality reporting.

Honestly, It was hard read. The write up was rushed to print ,to make today's headline. The editor needs to be queried.

So it was Covid 19 that took him away as I initially suspected. And Covid is still wreaking havoc in Nigeria, yet people are still very disbelieving and nonchalant. If you are not using mask when you go out, at least fortify yourself with immune system boosters or get vaccinated.

Na wa oh!

See how people steal from the system to send their kids abroad .

How is he different from those he criticised? Rubbish!

Ddokie:
Appears to be Covid related. Sad.

Anyone taking a patient to a hospital in Nigeria in an emergency should be ready to take hell along with him or her. If not, these medics will just allow your loved one die for nothing.

The situation in Nigeria today has so badly affected our humanity that an average Nigerian can watch a fellow human being die and do nothing about it even when he/she can help.

You are hearing this because it is Mailafia. There are many who die daily in similar circumstances.

Doctor wen dey think of how him go take japa go canada, america or saudi, na im you dey depend to care for your person. Na dai you dey.

I agree that it may be COVID related. Dude was sick for three days and suddenly went into reality distress.

But I will give my own opinion to these allegations if negligence AFTER I have heard the hospital's side of the story.

There are lapses in the system but dis story get as e be.

This man death pain me wella, the only northerner with a steel ball.

Do people still patronize that hospital?

Yves4real:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/e-x-p-o-s-e-d-how-mailafia-died-at-specialist-hospital-gwagwalada/

”Wife of the former CBN Deputy Governor was asked to pay the sum of N600’000 as deposit even when it was a referral case, with accruing medical bill to be settled by the CBN. At a point, Dr Mailafia complained over his breathing problems and pleaded with the doctors to place him in a ventilator. The doctors flatly refused.


FEAR Nigerian Doctors and Nigeria police

dobosky:



True talk...

Just last week here, I rushed an uncle to hospital in Abuja on emergency . On getting there we where told to take card first. When I raised voice they rushed and take him on stretcher to emergency.
He was lying there struggling to breath and unattended to for more than 1 hour. When I asked the doctor whats happening, all he said was they are doing documentation. Documenting what? I asked ! but was ignored. To cut the story short, when they finally agreed to admit him it was two late as he passed away.


Nigeria is finished..

Sorry about that bro.

FreeStuffsNG:
What a horrible reporting by Vanguard.

Looks like a blog post with so much incoherent and poorly arranged points with primary, secondary, tertiary and quarternary sources that ended up fouling up the whole story.

It is so bad that the reporter did not even know the name of the wife and son of the deceased yet kept on addressing them as "wife " and "son" and didn't even know that this is not likely malaria so he could get the view of experts on those symptoms similar to covid-19 symptoms.
Vanguard never reached any of the facilities accused to get their version and it ended up making the report unbalanced and not credible.


I pray that God will help our media rise above pettiness and mediocrity . This report is disgraceful. I don't even know if the profession has an agency that monitors the practitioners. I pity folks still buying a newspaper with such low quality reporting.

The fact that they pointed out the shabby way Mailafia was treated is good enough for me. I prefer the message than the messenger.

Hmmn.

Yankee101:
I don't think you need to be paid a billion dollars to do your job properly, Nigerian doctors
Go to Cuba, they have one of the poorest pay and infrastructure but some of the best doctors on earth. We need to stop making everything about money

The American medical doctor graduates with an average loan of $300k or N170m. And wouldn't earn that money for nearly 10 years after graduation

A Nigerian doctors graduates with less than an average of N5m expenses and has the opportunity to practice abroad with zero student loans

Of course the government needs to improve pay and infrastructure in Nigeria. Still, you chose a profession that is bound by oath to provide best of your ability service irrespective of money, status or curcumstance

My friend rest abeg, it's not all about money. Most important thing is organizational protocol to protect your staff. The last time I contracted Covid 19 while treating patients I spent almost all my live savings from the 100,000 naira monthly pay, while I was hospitalized. Who took care of me? Only my parents. Am grateful I survived and most grateful to God I didn't infect my parents. Morale don low abeg!!! Once I travel out I don't even mind changing a new career. Remembering the sensoneural damage I got from some of the drug side effects gives me a whole different form of anxiety.

FreeStuffsNG:
What a horrible reporting by Vanguard.

Looks like a blog post with so much incoherent and poorly arranged points with primary, secondary, tertiary and quarternary sources that ended up fouling up the whole story.

It is so bad that the reporter did not even know the name of the wife and son of the deceased yet kept on addressing them as "wife " and "son" and didn't even know that this is not likely malaria so he could get the view of experts on those symptoms similar to covid-19 symptoms.
Vanguard never reached any of the facilities accused to get their version and it ended up making the report unbalanced and not credible.


I pray that God will help our media rise above pettiness and mediocrity . This report is disgraceful. I don't even know if the profession has an agency that monitors the practitioners. I pity folks still buying a newspaper with such low quality reporting.

This is my observation as well...

Is this a report or beer parlour gossip?

This your post below is not just misleading but wicked; the reason why Nigeria is not likely to emerge from her 3rd world status.
Just like you, Obadiah had the opportunity of lending his voice plus using his vantage position in government to institute a better health care system but preferred to trivialize the matter or rely on foreign medical consultant his son would refer when need be. This same foreigner that our own Nigerian Scholars send to the bottom of the class in foreign schools. LMAO

Yankee101:
I don't think you need to be paid a billion dollars to do your job properly, Nigerian doctors
Go to Cuba, they have one of the poorest pay and infrastructure but some of the best doctors on earth. We need to stop making everything about money

Really, so what about their Politicians? Do politicians in Cuba own more than one house (both in Cuba and any where else in the world) like yours that own mansions and multi-billion businesses both within and outside Nigeria.


The American medical doctor graduates with an average loan of $300k or N170m. And wouldn't earn that money for nearly 10 years after graduation
A Nigerian doctors graduates with less than an average of N5m expenses and has the opportunity to practice abroad with zero student loans

Where did you cook up these figures. You are obviously not on ground in the US (don't deceive yourself) but even Google would have helped you. Now how many years do you study medicine in the US? What is Tuition per Academic Year? Then factor living cost. It's Not more than $150k
On the flip you say N5m is okay for a 6 years Medical programme in Nigeria. Let's use the cheapest of private Schools in Nigeria that will ensure you graduate as and stated like the USA. You will agree with me that you should compare like for like except when you have a hidden motive or your judgement induced by handouts from Nigerian Politicians. Cheapest Private University fees range from N1m per Session. Oga add Books (which isn't cheap with constant devaluation of the Naira) and Living cost (which also isn't Cheap for same reasons, you don't produce anything incountry), so about N2.5m/year for six 6yrs gave you N5m. You try. That's about N15m. A fresh Medical Graduate in the USA earning over $50k /yr will recoup his investment in 3years as sure as you know the sun will rise the next day. But in Nigeria, you need to go sow a seed in church to get residency placement plus bribe. So come back and tell us how soon your 9ja brother will take to recoup his N15m investment.
Your argument is so flawed because you even forgot that The American Student is not in anyway restricted to study Medicine via Loan in America, he can easily jet out with his strong passport to anywhere in the world where Fees are Cheaper but you know An American will rather go to hell than go to Nigeria for School. But will readily take up appointment in same Nigeria Oil companies to exploit you. Where una brains dey self?
But you a Nigerian, even when determined to wash plates and corpse to pay your fees in America can your passport get you to America. Yet you have the moral bias to callout Doctors for doing what every Nigerian Youth should be doing right now.


Of course the government needs to improve pay and infrastructure in Nigeria. Still, you chose a profession that is bound by oath to provide best of your ability service irrespective of money, status or curcumstance

Shey it's only medical doctors that swore oath. What of your politicians, tell us about the oath your politicians have been swearing and if they have kept to any.
Only a wicked heart will expect someone to work for him without paying, claiming poor business, yet buys the wife latest Range Rover for birthday same week. And you expect nature to be kind to you and your family? Only Fools mock God!

Yes, checkout my previous posts on Nairaland to find out my profession.
I am not a Doctor neither are my parents but we get treated by Doctors when we fall ill. And went to the University with many of them and can tell you that they deserve respect from the rest of us because they are very intelligent, could have graduated 2 years earlier (from 4yr programs) to pick lucrative banking jobs but they preferred to Sacrifice quick returns because deep in their hearts, they want to be heros saving our lives .

Respect to Doctors. Its Unfortunate that is one of yours that is been used to continue the repression against you.

Feggie3:
My friend rest abeg, it's not all about money. Most important thing is organizational protocol to protect your staff. The last time I contracted Covid 19 while treating patients I spent almost all my live savings from the 100,000 naira monthly pay, while I was hospitalized. Who took care of me? Only my parents. Am grateful I survived and most grateful to God I didn't infect my parents. Morale don low abeg!!! Once I travel out I don't even mind changing a new career. Remembering the sensoneural damage I got from some of the drug side effects gives me a whole different form of anxiety.

There are several practice insurance types in most countries from professional liability (botched surgery etc) to workers compensation (you suffer loss on the job, like falling ill from a patient's infection)

That's part of what your NMA should be fighting for and alot of the premium comes from you and your employers pay, it has nothing to do with government, besides regulation

Yves4real:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/e-x-p-o-s-e-d-how-mailafia-died-at-specialist-hospital-gwagwalada/

BUHARI and his northerns Terrorists on the bat again.

I read with utter dismay, how people jump into conclusion without hearing from the other side...
Is that not an hospital where the Doctors are on strike?
He was treated shabily in CBN hospital, if he's a Covid suspected case, should he be wrapped and kept in the hospital, or stabilized and transferred as is the case?
The wife now is a doctor that feels her husband's pulse after he was declared dead, journalism should be factual not emotional please!
And do anyone actually confirm if the hospital have a free ventilator available, or ventilator are now like pure water...

May God rest the soul of the beloved Mailaifa...Please don't trivialize his death with sentiments or cock and bull stories, to sell as a blog or make the headline. Do your investigation and give us a balanced report.

I'll take time to answer you as detailed as possible

I said average of N5m to study in Nigeria. In mathematics average will imply a mean of private and public schools including the length of years needed to complete a programme. My medical school fees in nigeria was less than N2000 per session at year 3 of clinicals, the same school in nigeria is still less than N50k today. Nigerian federal schools don't pay tuition, it's subsidized with subventions, you pay only fees.


You need a first degree in the US (which is up to $100k seperately) before being admitted to a 4 year medical school and then 4 to 5 years of residency

If you travel abroad to save cost you'll be treated as a foreign doctor and must write USMLE. struggle for a rural residency posting etc before integration

When I said medical school here in the US was averaging $300k, you said private medical schools burnt N1m pre books, that is less than $2k x 6 years = $12k (this is less than 1year of only accommodation in some American cities) It can be as high as $500k to finish medical school here in some instances

Nigeria's corruption index is 28, Cuba is 47, so go figure, if you think there's no corruption in Cuba.

All4good:
This your post below is not just misleading but wicked; the reason why Nigeria is not likely to change.
Just like you Obadiah had the opportunity of lending his voice plus using his vantage position in government to institute a better health care system but preferred reliance on foreign medical consultant his son would refer when need be. This same foreigner that our own Nigerian Scholars send to the bottom of the class in foreign schools. LMAO

RuddyFusion:
The wickedness of the wicked shall live with them, their children and children children...

Yes that is right.
That is why Katsina people are killed and kidnapped like flies,not only Katsina,but Zamfara,Niger and all those who gave Baba a landslide victory.
Don't forget Abba Kyari,Isa Funtua,Junaid Muhammad, they are all six feet under.
We would keep counting the scores.

He died of COVID-19.

they are not good doctors, so they delay

dobosky:



True talk...

Just last week here, I rushed an uncle to hospital in Abuja on emergency . On getting there we where told to take card first. When I raised voice they rushed and take him on stretcher to emergency.
He was lying there struggling to breath and unattended to for more than 1 hour. When I asked the doctor whats happening, all he said was they are doing documentation. Documenting what? I asked ! but was ignored. To cut the story short, when they finally agreed to admit him it was two late as he passed away.

Nigeria is finished..

they are dullards, so they leave patients to die

blackboy:
Hmmm. I pity anyone who goes to any Nigerian hospital and has a life threatening sickness. The nurses and doctors will be fighting openly. The nurses will be pretending to work while the doctors will be away. They take one look at a patient and insteadcof saving the life of the patient they among themselves say the patient is dead. They help speed up the death. They will be asking teaching hospital questions about the patient...did they take anti pregnancy pill? When last? How many children? Blahh all research questions. Then they say take the terminally ill patient home. Had looked up to the profession with respect and pride but they grow thick skins and dont have feelings. Its like let em die make we no stress ourselves.
FG needs to equip hospitals and ppl who steal or sabotage hospitals should be treated as saboteurs or charged with treason.

Much as I want to peep through your position but I rather fault it.
Your chase under the habiliment of poor reportage when the crux of the matter is a loss of life leaves a sour taste on the palate.
The discus is the poor handling of his medical condition and a purported sabotage rather, you chose to question the medium and not the message.
Please let's peruse the facts on the temple of justice and fairplay rather than playing to the gallery of reportage.

FreeStuffsNG:
What a horrible reporting by Vanguard.

Looks like a blog post with so much incoherent and poorly arranged points with primary, secondary, tertiary and quarternary sources that ended up fouling up the whole story.

It is so bad that the reporter did not even know the name of the wife and son of the deceased yet kept on addressing them as "wife " and "son" and didn't even know that this is not likely malaria so he could get the view of experts on those symptoms similar to covid-19 symptoms.
Vanguard never reached any of the facilities accused to get their version and it ended up making the report unbalanced and not credible.


I pray that God will help our media rise above pettiness and mediocrity . This report is disgraceful. I don't even know if the profession has an agency that monitors the practitioners. I pity folks still buying a newspaper with such low quality reporting.

he was murdered. it doesn't matter what you or your oppressive devilish apc govt says. but remember man is man and God is God. at the appointed time everyone will give account.

Sirjamo:
Any statement that comes from middle belt forum, CAN, Ohanaeze, Afenifere, NEF and ACF must be skewed to make the government look bad.


They're not really pained by the death of Mailafia, just playing to the gallery. They know that their fellow wailers are already talking rubbish that the man was murdered.

I await your detailed response, same way I obliged you.
And i can see that you are now flying the kite of an immigrant Doctor in the USA. So when you Japa, you now turn and point accusing fingers on Doctors still in Nigeria sacrificing.

I await your response as I am really interested in seeing were NARD got it wrong.

Yankee101:


When I said medical school here in the US was averaging $300k, you said private medical schools burnt N1m pre books, that is less than $2k x 6 years = $12k (this is less than 1year of only accommodation in some American cities) It can be as high as $500k to finish medical school here in some instances

Please stop making this type of lopsided comparison. Like I said before, to be justified, in your arguments, you will compare apple for Apple.
You say $2k = N1m as such it is cheap as it doesn't compare to $500k in the USA. This your conversion factor is N500/$ which your CBN governor claims is being manipulated by one of your National leaving in London. So why not find out from Emefiele what the true exchange rate should be, probably N150/$ or N1/$1 which Soludu promised and he was removed from office as CBN governor.

Then, Lastly always also consider the ease of getting a Job to recoup ones investment from both countries you compare.

I graduated from a federal University over 20 years ago and I paid tuition it wasn't FREE albeit very little at the time. But fast forward a few years later my MBA fees from same institution was mind boggling.
Irrespective of what your personal experience is anyone can check out the facts online from wherever they live. Let's proceed

Yves4real:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/e-x-p-o-s-e-d-how-mailafia-died-at-specialist-hospital-gwagwalada/

please what is the name of the the doctor? we want to know. This man has been a torn in the flesh to some people who I am sure would do anything to see him gone! R.I.P soldier, you fought well!

The fufus have succeeded...

RIP the fearless man..

Some Medical Doctors are useless and heartless...No human sympathy...and always quick in ensuring that their welfare are secured...but to secure lives na wahala.

After Multiple independent autopsy report and including From Govt. The only way the christians and the Middle belt Can HONOUR the memory of thier beloved Freedom Fighter who died in this struggle is to stand 100% for his recent request he made that was never done. He Called for All Christian in Northern Nigeria should SIT AT HOME FOR SEVEN DAYS.!!.
Let start it Now from October 1st -7th.. Else his spirit may not rest in peace in his native Land, that has been crying for innocent blood of Victims....THE TIME IS NOW ! NORTHERN CHRISTIAN & MIDDLE BELT SIT AT HOME FROM OCTOBER 1st 2021

Remember what He Said:

"Let me make some revelations because some of us also have our own intelligence networks. I have met with some of the bandits, we have met with some of their high commanders. One or two who have repented. They have sat down with us, not once, not twice.

They told us that one of the northern governors is the commander of Boko Haram in Nigeria. Boko Haram and the Bandits are one and the same thing. They have a sophisticated network. during this lockdown their Planes were moving up and down as though there was no lock down. Moving ammunition, money, logistics and distributing them in different part of the country. They are already in the south. In the rain forest of the south. They are everywhere. They told us that when they finish this rural killings, they will move to phase 2.

In the Phase 2, they will go into the urban cities, going from house to house killing prominent people. I can tell you, this is the game plan. By 2022, they want to start a civil war in Nigeria. Don't joke with what I am saying you. I have a PHD from Oxford university. I am a central banker, we don't talk nonsense. So don't joke with what I am telling you."

e be like say, dem dey kill these people for 2023

ipobarethieves:
Nothing ever work in this country .Even Foreign docs/paramedic will race to rescue a dog in danger not to talk of human beings . Private hospital medical docs/consultant now charge u for consultation after u don pay for card.To do Malaria/typhoid test nah 10k each (depending where u go).God will help us in dis Nig

And you would like to continue in the same country?