₦airaland Forum

ultron12345:
How will you feel as a doctor if your kids are driven out of school, your family is hungry, oxygen and drug suppliers are on your neck to pay them for the oxygen and drugs they supplied you on credit, your staff are on your neck for salaries you're owing, all because patients patients keep receiving treatment without paying for it.

How will you feel if you lost your relative after rushing him to the hospital with cash on you but was rejected by the hospital because there are no consumables to use for him (they got exhausted and no money to replace), no oxygen (they're even owing oxygen suppliers already and they've refused to supply until debt is cleared), no power (no money for fuel), staff are not around dues to owed salaries being owed, all because people have been receiving treatment without paying.

This issue of absconding without payment doesn't only affect the hospital, it poses a threat to future patients too.

The solution is health insurance (Nigerians won't still hear, they'll call it what-if money, they rather insure themselves with the blood of Jesus), or the treatment of debt as a criminal offence by law enforcement agencies.

ultron12345:
If everyone is given treatment and leaves without paying, how will nurses and hospital staff be paid their salaries at the end of the month? Will you tell them "life first"
How will you pay oxygen suppliers? Will you tell them "life first"
How will you buy fuel to run generator? Will you go to fuel station and tell the attendant "life first"
How will you replace used consumables to use for new patients?

If only you see how wicked some patients are. I've experienced a case where after a patient was treated without deposit, when it was time for him to pay, he couldn't and wasn't allowed out of the hospital. You know what the relatives did? They hired thugs who invaded the hospital and beat up hospital staff and took their relative out. You think such doctor will treat without deposit again?

It's painful to see a family who claimed they don't have money to pay you for the delivery you carried out for their wife, slaughtering a cows a week later for dedication and child naming.

Nigerian doctors have had enough

ElPhoche:
inasmuch as harsh as it sounds, majority of people don't pay at all or don't make their full payment after being treated on compassionate grounds. The hospital could run down if care is not taken because she needs those funds to cater to her personnel and stock up. A pity we don't have a good health insurance for such cases. I have been at the receiving end of it and it is usually my nurses who have their salaries slashed when those people abscond. By law you can't even keep patients in the hospital to pay before they go because you would be guilty of hostage-taking. So, some hospitals prefer to be safe than sorry

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