drsibz66:



Don't the same Nigerian doctors treat our politicians outside the country. Nigerians like to do hasty generalisation. Since you were born haven't you been treated in a Nigerian hospital or do people not die in oversea hospital.

There is a systemic and national default in every occupation in Nigeria that is responsible for the citizens not getting the best , be it in health care , banking, government parastatal, education etc and its because of the general attitude to work of every Nigeria because of lack of accountability.

Quote me the health care system is the most functional system in the country where you can see round pegs and round hole , coupled with a bit of professionalism.

theophorus:


Healthcare functional in Nigeria?

Do you know how many Patients those Doctors Kill in Teaching Hospitals across the country daily?

Do you know how many they have turn to HBP patients through wrong diagnosis?

Do you know how many they treated say 'Headache' for but turn them to 'Cancer' patients?

See, I agree with you that Inefficiency in Nigeria is across board but please don't exempt the Health sector at all.

Before I begin post, I dey near Healthcare system for Naija ooo.

Richy4:

I totally understand you trust me buddy.. I am not in the medical field.. Life first before any other thing is what I am talking about... is there a way that a dying patient could be stabilized or rescued from the point of death...

I am not saying that he/she should be given full treatment.. Just enough for him or her to be alive first before Money negotiations kicks in.. That's just my line of argument..

tete7000:
Some parents can be careless sha. I remember one scene I witnessed at my mum's hospital one year like that. A nursing mother waited until her child was totally dehydrated from stooling before bringing her to hospital that day. The nurses on duty abused the woman tired. How did someone see her child gradually loosing weight and waited until the thing reached crisis point before rushing to hospital? Even though I was quite small then but this event sticked to my memory till today - the sight of an emanciated baby, the scene of the nurses scolding the careless mother.
And from some of the comments written up there, it is clear there are lots of Nigerians with bias against the medical practioners in our society. If anything goes wrong with a patient, it must be doctors or nurses fault, even when it is the patient or his/her people that are negligent.

OmoNla99:
Nigerian doctors wouldn’t tell you a patient would die regardless of the medication given to him/her. Also, in this part of the world we go to hospitals only when we are about to die. Visiting hospitals for regular checkups isn’t part of how style. A lot of us prefer to go to a pharmacy to buy drugs when we feel we have headaches or stomachaches thinking that’s all we’ve got. Whereas, it could be a lot worse more.
Compatriots, pls let’s Make it a duty to visit a doctor once every year to do a general checkup(bloodwork). Early detection of ailments, diseases and its likes is the best. Don’t wait until we are about to die.

Neroclassic001:

You are very right. A doctor almost killed my mum with excess dose of an antibiotics.
I went to visit my mum in the hospital straight from work. Not long, a doc came to administer her evening shots. I was keenly observing him as I usually do and noticed his error just as he was about to give the shot.

TheChameleon:


Yes relatives attack Doctors and it's bad.

But that particular story in Benin seemed more like a cult hit.

The patient had a gunshot wound so how did his relatives come to the ward with guns?

DatNaijaGuy:


It happened in Asaba, not Benin City.
The doctor that was killed is Doctor Osas Iluobe.

airsaylongcome:


How can you make such sweeping statements? They are all negligent? Did the patients come to the hospital at the earliest symptoms of their ailment? No doc, Nigerian trained or not, takes pride in loosing a patient

Richy4:


When they deposit such money in the hospital, such consumables does not just magically fly in immediately or does it? there are ways organizations around the world collect their debt.. or is that not so?

theophorus:


Healthcare functional in Nigeria?

Do you know how many Patients those Doctors Kill in Teaching Hospitals across the country daily?

Do you know how many they have turn to HBP patients through wrong diagnosis?

Do you know how many they treated say 'Headache' for but turn them to 'Cancer' patients?

See, I agree with you that Inefficiency in Nigeria is across board but please don't exempt the Health sector at all.

Before I begin post, I dey near Healthcare system for Naija ooo.

athorello:
I'm not in support of attacking doctors and medical professionals. If anything I have high regards for them but sometimes they and hospitals can frustrate patients and their families with their unprofessional conducts.

Doctors at Ughelli central hospital killed my sister last Oct with wrong blood transfusion just for a leg suggery. She couldn't even make the suggery again and they can't explain how someone who's been stable for the 3rd week running after an accident will start battling for her life and passed on within 24 hours of the wrong blood transfusion by an NYSC doctor and nurses. I have every reason to believe a cover up since the pupported panel investigating it hasn't come up with anything since then.

Like even after everything they'll want you to make trouble before they follow due process. This is Nigeria.

Kobonaire234:


1.Sorry for your sister's loss

2.A common cause of death in people with leg injury that keeps them immobilized is an 'embolism'

If your sister's leg was kept immobile after the accident, she very likely had a embolus form in the affected leg, which could have travelled to her brain's blood supply denying it of blood, and causing death...or to the lungs, causing pulmonary embolsim, which many times can lead to death (and if someone surivies...na by fire by force we take fight am).

Emboli, or blood clots in the vessels, form due to things like prolonged immobilization .(That's part of why we tell people to exercise regularly).

Here is a case report from another country about a similar death to your sister

It can't be from the blood transfusion...because if your sis had been given the wrong blood group.....there would have been a reaction within 30 minutes...and there are established protocols to deal with it.


(Disclaimer...this is a speculative writeup about a potential cause of your sis' death. Only a full autopsy done by a consultant pathologist can tell us for sure what caused her death.)

Laird:
But why would a doctor kill his patient? To what gain does the Doctor get??


Thank fully I am no longer in active practice. Sometimes the doctor goes the extra mile and the patient and the relatives still fight the doctor.

Only few patients are appreciative


Many doctors too are leaving active practice..

Make Una enjoy.

Desusi:
I have witnessed doctor attention to patients in Nigeria and outside here.ln Nigeria, doctor believed they are next to God.ln most cases, the leave most of their responsibilities for matrons. When you need their attention and they are nowhere to be found, matron will tell you,its not my job.At other times,when a patience is brought to an hospital they know quite alright that the patients may not survived the illness, they will start to do series of tests and be using the sick for experiment until the patient died.Tell me, after wasted thousands of naira if not millions, how you will not transfer aggression on them. Many years ago when my wife was to give birth to my first child in Europe, l was treated like somebody. You will see the professional ways things were done.As a young African man,they asked me, Sir,would you want to stay with us in the labour room? l said, yes. ok.
They gave me hand gloves, cap and mouth cover.when they discovered l couldn't bear my wife crying,they took me aside and asked me to sign for operation. I said no, no.lam from a Royal family,just to avoid operation. Later they told me, they gave my wife the next 15 minutes to press.Meanwhile, they made hot tea for me asking me how is Africa.?As God will do it ,my wife deliver safely. Tell me,which general hospital in Nigeria, such would be done to you? No, Not even in a private hospital.

TheChameleon:


Yeah that case.

Was just strange that the patient's relatives were packing heat at the hospital

armadeo:



How much you pay ? Was it pay before service or you paid after service.

Desusi:

So its becos of the mode of payment that made you people misbehaving to your clients in our hospitals? Why now?Life is more than bread o.If l tell you medical treatment is free there,would you believe it? I will take you people matters to God in prayers. "E ni ti a ko ba Lee mu oluwa laa ran sii"