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otherway:
And I'm telling you first hand as a resident that the person who narrated the story to you is naive.

If a health issue is not pressing, there could be a waiting period of some months which makes sense but when it comes to serious health issue you can walk into the emergency section of any hospital and get prompt treatment same day.

I had an eye surgery after waiting for about 18months cos it's not an emergency and remember we are talking about first class health care absolutely free.

Please don't even mention Nigeria in any form when talking about UK healthcare.

Same thing here. There's Accident & Emergency ward in all Government Hospitals in Nigeria.
Oh maybe I should remind you that we are all not dead in Nigeria since you left. Yes it could seriously get better, but it's supporting.

budaatum:
We can rejoice. The UK health system is now so bad that there's no reason for our rich and politicians to bother stealing our foreign currency to go buy health there.

All we need now is a thread claiming the UK universities kill students, and Nigerians wouldn't be coming to buy university neither and will buy made in Nigeria instead.

This report is about NHS care, provided by the government.

Private hospitals are expensive, so few can afford them, but those few include our criminal leaders.

Abee79:
Actually, I get it. Right now, I'm processing the applications of thousands of Nigerian doctors and nurses who are extremely eager to join the system that is in a "comatose state." That's all I can say 🤐

You're processing their applications as what exactly? Uk visa officer or NHS personnel?

OlawaleBammie:
the immigrants are not only there to add to their health medics number, they are also there to add to the number of the patients..

The more the immigrants, the more the patients.

So don't talk as if the immigrants are recvng their health treatment in Spain and Germany

That's life for you. You don't cherry pick in life. If you want the rose you must deal with the thorns.

Ibehchizzy:
The uk is a no no for me

I hate that country eeh

budaatum:
Tinubu recently went for care at Saint Mary's in Paddington, which is a NHS hospital, and King's in Denmark Hill, a NHS hospital, admits international fee paying patients at £500 a bed a night (2016 prices).

They do both have private wings I do admit, and Tinubu was not served NHS, but the same doctors serve both private and NHS patients in both hospitals.

That said, the article is talking more about emergency arrivals, and it's not as dire as is being made out if Nigerian standards are considered where more die.

no be uk ? Half the people in that emergency section are males who have a dil-do shoved up they ass that they can’t remove 🤷🏽‍♂️ Awon werey

Ibehchizzy:
The uk is a no no for me

it’s actually a very great country. Just live there like dj cuppy. House in Belgrave and sports car and 5 million pounds in bank. It’s a very lovely country. Get your lunch at Harrods or marks and spencer grocery

They can’t fix problems in their own country but prefer to send money to Ukraine thinking they can defeat Russia.

budaatum:
We can rejoice. The UK health system is now so bad that there's no reason for our rich and politicians to bother stealing our foreign currency to go buy health there.

All we need now is a thread claiming the UK universities kill students, and Nigerians wouldn't be coming to buy university neither and will buy made in Nigeria instead.

Oga rich Nigerians go for private healthcare in the UK and not public NHS owned hospitals.

budaatum:
Tinubu recently went for care at Saint Mary's in Paddington, which is a NHS hospital, and King's in Denmark Hill, a NHS hospital, admits international fee paying patients at £500 a bed a night (2016 prices).

They do both have private wings I do admit, and Tinubu was not served NHS, but the same doctors serve both private and NHS patients in both hospitals.

That said, the article is talking more about emergency arrivals, and it's not as dire as is being made out if Nigerian standards are considered where more die.

Just as you have a section in lasuth called CCU that is privately owned but staffed by consultants working in lasuth. The difference is that you have priority access to all the consultants and specialist compared to those in the general section.

Melagros:
COMRADES, the incompetent Obi will seize this medium to promote his rhetoric in Nigeria

Shame on Pandora and all his headless minions

Tinubu till 2031.

Tax reform is becoming a success.

budaatum:
Tinubu recently went for care at Saint Mary's in Paddington, which is a NHS hospital, and King's in Denmark Hill, a NHS hospital, admits international fee paying patients at £500 a bed a night (2016 prices).

They do both have private wings I do admit, and Tinubu was not served NHS, but the same doctors serve both private and NHS patients in both hospitals.

That said, the article is talking more about emergency arrivals, and it's not as dire as is being made out if Nigerian standards are considered where more die.

I laugh at the fools rejoicing at this somehow misleading impression of life over there.

NHS

Tayorshd87:
You mumu ooo
Thank God say no be Nigeria he happen people like u would have shouted Nigeria is a shit hole this and that ..

Similar thing happened in Los Angeles where they were unable to pull out the fire until Canada sent for fire fighters to assist them again.

If na nigeria people like u Wil still should the country is a shit hole because if na overseas them go don off am this and that.


NIGERIA CANN NEVER BE GREAT WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU LIVING IN IT UNLESS WIND EASH YOUR GENERATION AWAY .

kids the truth 💋

You don't have an idea of Nigerian hospital. Go to Nigerian general hospitals and see how patients are dieing awaiting treatment. You dey joke, Nigeria is more than shit hole.

tuoyoojo:
Very sad indeed

See the shortage of health practitioners despite the massive inflow of medics from third world countries

The other day, I came across a video of one white guy clamouring for "re-migration" protest in march stating that foreigners has come to overrun their land and they are now second class citizens in their country

If all the migrants adding value to their health care system leaves, imagine what would happen

But you also forget that not all those migrants are health care givers. Even the health care givers and their families who are not health care givers also need the services of the hospitals as they also fall sick. UK is over crowded with foreigners. Though they are not alone in this. They must find a way to upgrade.

[quote author=Racoon post=133746646]Meanwhile, our healthcare professionals are still japaing to face these over congested healthcare challenges. [/quote

The salary and other better life services are the driving force.

ozo13:
does it mean it will get to a time they will just issue out visa to our Doctors with any exam hurdles again.if they try that it will boomerang more on our own health system

The issue is not about personnel, it is about health facilities on ground. The number of patients waiting for treatment is much bigger than hospitals space. Like bed, oxygen and other health equipment. They need to build more hospitals and buy acquire more equipments, probably hire more staff.

When bad news like this comes out of the UK guess who suffers most- immigrants. They will usually start with those in the lowest rung of the ladder, Nigerians before they go on to Indians, Pakistanis and so on and so forthe

Now I understand why my sister has decided to relocate to Canada to continue her profession...

Bigboytinz:
https://punchng.com/patients-dying-in-corridors-as-uk-hospital-standards-collapse-report/

Agbadorians … always looking for news to justify this failure of a government.

So because people are dying In the corridors of UK hospitals, it’s fine for the Nigerian government not to bother building or equipping hospitals in Niger.

APC supporters are demonic lots that want to bring everyone to their level of poverty.

budaatum:
We can rejoice. The UK health system is now so bad that there's no reason for our rich and politicians to bother stealing our foreign currency to go buy health there.

All we need now is a thread claiming the UK universities kill students, and Nigerians wouldn't be coming to buy university neither and will buy made in Nigeria instead.

Say only what you know.

This is government Hospitals, like our general hospitals.

Private hospitals are not like this but super super expensive. Imagine paying £600 for MRI, whereas in Nigeria it's cheaper at private diagnostic centres.

I don't admire UK a bit.

Perhaps due to over employment of too many Nigerian doctors and nurses who resort to pray for patients before commencing treatment even in emergency cases thereby leading to deaths from delays caused by prayers and expectations of miracle from sky daddy.

Tolu2024:
They can’t fix problems in their own country but prefer to send money to Ukraine thinking they can defeat Russia.

You're on point here.

Keir Starmer was in Ukraine on Wednesday to assure Zelenskyy of UK's support, all in a bid to "defeat" Russia.

But back in his home country, there are a lot of problems to be solved, including inadequate NHS hospital facilities.

Like the saying, the West have enough money for wars but don't have money to take care of its citizens.

All thanks to them, but I think its Karma for dem UK too for the pains they caused to their former colonies.

Jakumo:
Nigerian politicians flush with hard currency don't patronize government-subsidized NHS medical facilities in the UK where the poor and middle class join queues lasting many hours to visit overburdened doctors.

Those super-wealthy Nigerian politicians pay pounds sterling for PRIVATE hospital care in London's Harley Street area, which 80% of the UK population could never afford.

@Jakumo

Succinctly stated.

Bigboytinz:
UK patients are “coming to harm” with hospitals so overwhelmed people are dying in corridors awaiting treatment amid a “collapse in care standards”, a report said Thursday.

In the latest indictment of Britain’s beleaguered state-funded National Health Service, nine in 10 NHS nurses surveyed by the country’s nurses union said, “patient safety is being compromised.:

Nearly seven in 10 (66.8 per cent) said they were delivering care in “overcrowded or unsuitable places” on a “daily basis”, including in corridors, converted cupboards, car parks, and even bereavement rooms.

“The experiences of over 5,000 nursing staff across the UK highlight a devastating collapse in care standards, with patients routinely coming to harm,” said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).


The report condemned the “normalisation” of so-called “corridor care”, with nurses unable to access life-saving equipment in cramped spaces.

One nurse in East England said corridor care in their hospital trust was “not an exception, it’s the rule”.

Last month, some 54,000 patients in emergency departments in England had to wait over 12 hours until a hospital bed was available, up 23 percent from December 2023.

The report is a result of a Royal College of Nursing request at the end of December, asking members to fill out a short survey.

The report includes “the raw, unedited and often heart-breaking comments” of the thousands of nursing staff working across the UK who responded, the RCN said.


The report comes as NHS figures released separately Thursday revealed that last week was the busiest yet for the health service this winter, with hospitals “jam-packed” with patients.

Some 96 percent of all hospital beds were full, said Julian Redhead, NHS national clinical director for urgent and emergency care, warning that despite a drop in flu numbers “winter viruses are much higher than usual for this time of year”.

The RCN report included testimonies from nurses treating up to 40 patients waiting in a corridor, as well as reports of pregnant women miscarrying in corridors.

Some said the overcrowding in corridors impeded them from giving life-saving resuscitation (CPR). One nurse recalled a patient dying after a cardiac arrest “by the male toilet”.

Another alleged having to treat cardiac arrests “with no crash bell, crash trolley, oxygen, defibrillator… straddling a patient doing CPR while everyone watches on”.

“This devastating testimony from frontline nursing staff shows patients are coming to harm every day”, said RCN General Secretary Nicola Ranger.

“Vulnerable people are being stripped of their dignity and nursing staff are being denied access to vital lifesaving equipment. We can now categorically say patients are dying in this situation,” Ranger added.

In June 2024, the RCN declared a “national emergency” over hospital overcrowding and care being delivered in unsuitable places.

Health Foundation charity’s assistant director of policy Tim Gardner said record delays in emergency care “were a rarity before the pandemic, but are now the worst we have seen since records began in 2011”.

There are some 7.5 million people on the NHS waiting list, with more than three million having faced delays longer than 18 weeks for treatment.

Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who was elected in July on a ticket that included fixing the NHS, rolled out a plan at the start of the year which included expanding community health centres to reduce pressure on hospitals.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting on Wednesday said corridor care was “unsafe” and “undignified” but it would “take time to undo the damage” to the NHS.

https://punchng.com/patients-dying-in-corridors-as-uk-hospital-standards-collapse-report/

The unintended effects of population growth and competing needs. Time to block more leakages in the revenue generating system of the UK and prioritize sustainable public health care needs.

It is bad though but corridor care is like healthcentre wey dey lga for naija and general hospitals

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh. You just don't get it. Even their healthcare professionals are leaving massively to Europe and Australiasia. The system is in a comatose state. Healthcare professionals will rather go elsewhere.

budaatum:
We can rejoice. The UK health system is now so bad that there's no reason for our rich and politicians to bother stealing our foreign currency to go buy health there.

All we need now is a thread claiming the UK universities kill students, and Nigerians wouldn't be coming to buy university neither and will buy made in Nigeria instead.

The "sarcasm" in your post right here is on another level.

davodyguy:
Say only what you know.

This is government Hospitals, like our general hospitals.

Private hospitals are not like this but super super expensive. Imagine paying £600 for MRI, whereas in Nigeria it's cheaper at private diagnostic centres.

Didn't you detect "sarcasm" in the post that you quoted?

@Budaatum was just being "sarcastic" by using anecdotes.

An average of £600 for standard MRI is really high in those private UK hospitals though. People would begin to look elsewhere if they can get it cheaper.

Free2Fly:
You're processing their applications as what exactly? Uk visa officer or NHS personnel?

Guess you'll never know

Cmanforall:
Their citizens don't stress themselves much to study medicine and nursing, unless those who truly have the passion

Yeah 👍