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I’m trying hard not to use Dr Femi’s death to push an agenda but how do we avoid speaking up, when we hear his death was related to being worked mercilessly into the grave?

How can a Doctor be sick and still be forced to work 72 hours straight?!!!! How I’ve spent the last year shouting here about the horrid work conditions in the health system in Nigeria and how it’s directly correlated with the brain drain of Doctors.

It is common knowledge. @mumtazin has escalated to the Government countless times. Yet, here we are: NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
You want people to stay but treat them like slaves.

We want answers about what happened to Dr Femi Rotifa in Rivers State University Teaching Hospital. We want perpetrators of this crime held accountable. We want NAMES! No cover up of this workplace maltreatment!

We demand an end to inhumane treatment of Doctors in Nigeria. This has to stop!!!!

RIP DR FEMI ROTIFA 💔🤍🕊️

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A young doctor reportedly died while on call. Exhausted. Overworked. Unseen.In a country already short of doctors, every loss is double tragedy; one life gone, countless more patients left without care.

This is not just sad. It’s unacceptable.
Who watches the Watchmen?
Who heals the Healer?

We must change the way we work.
We can't keep losing our best hands so cheaply. No supermen or women exist among us. Let doctors rest when they need to.

Put a ceiling on the number of hours they work. If the system needs more workers, the solution is not overworking the existing ones.

#changethewaywework
#ripdrfemi
MDCN and NMA, you have been served.

We must change the way we work.
We can't keep losing our best hands so cheaply. No supermen or women exist among us. Let doctors rest when they need to. Put a ceiling on the number of hours they work. If the system needs more workers, the solution is not overworking the existing… pic.twitter.com/aJWKgtVfQ3

— doctorfolu💜 (@doctorfolu) September 1, 2025

Racoon:
Dr Gradlin Roy, a 39-year-old consultant cardiac surgeon at Saveetha Medical Hospital, in Chennai, collapsed during ward rounds on Wednesday and died despite desperate efforts to save him.

According to Dr Sudhir Kumar, a Hyderabad-based neurologist, Dr Roy’s colleagues immediately launched an intensive rescue attempt. “Colleagues fought valiantly — CPR, urgent angioplasty with stenting, intra-aortic balloon pump, even ECMO. But nothing could reverse the damage from a massive cardiac arrest due to a 100% left main artery blockage,” Dr Kumar wrote on X (formerly Twitter)

Racoon:
Thanks @doctorfolu for lending your voice @ this sad phase of the passage of this young life of Dr. Femi Rotifa. The advocacy should go beyond rhetorics.

All the management team from the consultants, senior registrars, registrars and all involved in the unfortunate death of this young man should be thoroughly investigated and punished accordingly. We can continue like this.

We must change the way we work.
We can't keep losing our best hands so cheaply. No supermen or women exist among us. Let doctors rest when they need to. Put a ceiling on the number of hours they work. If the system needs more workers, the solution is not overworking the existing… pic.twitter.com/aJWKgtVfQ3

— doctorfolu💜 (@doctorfolu) September 1, 2025

tegini:
Very painful indeed, with my last research they are over 14,k Nigeria doctors in UK only ,not entirely sure about the figures, but Nigeria doctors where the 3rd after India and Pakistan, just imagine the level of brain drains , how much more the doctors in USA and Canada and other part of the world , one of my childhood friend who managed to finish as a doctor has already travelled out of the country he said , Nigeria is not worth dying,now I understand better, small pay and heavy work , a country where people who take lives are paid better than the ones who save lives , we are still a joke and for the notice most of the remaining doctors many Are quack , I have seen and experienced it , peace and light ,rip to the doctor

Racoon:
Nigeria is a wacked nation. The government have so much destroyed every facets of our national life especially the health sector.

No thanks to government officials especially the seating and past presidents, Senate president, NASS members and many others go to seek healthcare in cosy foreign hospitals in advance nations.

So the mass exodus of the best brains in this nation is putting unnecessary pressure on the available hands that defied the odds to stay back.

Now another young promising brain is gone because of the failed healthcare system and administration in Nigeria. May Nigeria never happen to you to feel the pain. Rest on Dr Femi Rotifa!!!! God's console to your grieving family and associates. Adiue bro

Bylaw:
Do you mean 12hrs straight or 72 hours straight?
I don't understand

72 hours as in 3 days

Na House officers suffer pass for where I Dey….

They can be on call for two weeks straight day and night sometimes….

They only go home to shower and return asap….

Those agbaya consultants will abandon their work for the house officers and be giving instructions via WhatsApp….

Nigeria is not for me mehn

omoadeleye:
Doctors is government hospitals doesn't really stress themselves at work as you people envisaged them

Doctors are driven by their selfish interests when working in government hospitals

There are doctors that rarely visit the clinic or mostly doctors can go on two month leave and when they resume to clinic they only just sit down while mostly work are done by the nurses.

The only time a doctor get to work themselves out is when they go out to do their own private Jobs in private hospitals.

So you people should stop being selfish to blame government at every woes commited by an individual

creolehunt:
Well, tens of thousands of doctors are inducted yearly too. Trust me, the number of migrating doctors is very negligible compared to the numbers produced.

That said, it's not easy to also migrate. The process is very tedious and cumbersome.

So, we should relax with this talk of brain drain. There are still many doctors unemployed and underemployed littered around.

omoadeleye:
Doctors is government hospitals doesn't really stress themselves at work as you people envisaged them

Doctors are driven by their selfish interests when working in government hospitals

There are doctors that rarely visit the clinic or mostly doctors can go on two month leave and when they resume to clinic they only just sit down while mostly work are done by the nurses.

The only time a doctor get to work themselves out is when they go out to do their own private Jobs in private hospitals.

So you people should stop being selfish to blame government at every woes commited by an individual

creolehunt:
Well, I also know that Nigerian doctors are one of the most arrogant and pompous professionals, yet mostly incompetent.

RIP to the doctor though.

omoadeleye:
Doctors is government hospitals doesn't really stress themselves at work as you people envisaged them

Doctors are driven by their selfish interests when working in government hospitals

There are doctors that rarely visit the clinic or mostly doctors can go on two month leave and when they resume to clinic they only just sit down while mostly work are done by the nurses.

The only time a doctor get to work themselves out is when they go out to do their own private Jobs in private hospitals.

So you people should stop being selfish to blame government at every woes commited by an individual

The way you confidently ooze of ignorance, a layman would think you made perfect sense but then doctors have grown past this nonsensical argument

Mindlog:
What stopped you from qualifying as one, to show other doctors, how to be humane?

omoadeleye:
Doctors is government hospitals doesn't really stress themselves at work as you people envisaged them

Doctors are driven by their selfish interests when working in government hospitals

There are doctors that rarely visit the clinic or mostly doctors can go on two month leave and when they resume to clinic they only just sit down while mostly work are done by the nurses.

The only time a doctor get to work themselves out is when they go out to do their own private Jobs in private hospitals.

So you people should stop being selfish to blame government at every woes commited by an individual