₦airaland Forum

Hi I just want to reply certain issues I could bring out, I am a paramedic in the university of Benin teaching hospital.

First I'll live to clarify that the reason for the post was to sensitize Nigerians about the missing part of "Nigeria's health system ". Paramedics are the guys that makes sure the patients gets to the hospital alive by administering care as the patient is been driven to the hospital in an "ambulance"

Many persons have asked, what is to say that paramedics will not one day rise up and claim to be doctors or nurses...the truth is that there is assurance because we are all human and human wants are insatiable but every sane person should understand the importance of each member of a team and all well trained medical person should understand his scope of practice and besides a better health system would be able to curb such scenario in the future

Us in the health sector should understand that the best way to care for the patient of to work as a team and as a structure of every team that exists there is always a team leader. In the health sector It is an unarguable fact that the doctors (physicians) are the head of the team but once of an attribute of a good team leader is to recognise the importance of every member of the team and all understand that respect is a two way street. It is taught in every team dynamics class that the team leader should respect the team member and vice versa.

Requesting a separate sector in the health system was never the intention of this piece. The paramedics are members of the emergency medical service EMS where the fire service the special rescue team etc are also members

I'll close my keyboard pad with admonishing us, every member of the health sector including doctors, nurses, pharmacist, pathologist, lab scientist paramedics that the reason we went through the stress and rigors of our various educational journey was to save the lives and keeping that in mind, having a well established EMS will reduce the number of persons that die at home, on the streets, brought into the hospital dead to the hospital and that of persons that die on arrival at the hospital.