₦airaland Forum

BangaRice:
Even in UK and USA, wrong diagnosis happens. It is part of the profession as doctors are human.

BangaRice:
Even in UK and USA, wrong diagnosis happens. It is part of the profession as doctors are human.

Ishilove:
An ex-colleague's father was diagnosed of prostate cancer early last year. He was scheduled for surgery, and then after the surgery he would start taking the drugs and do chemo. To my surprise, I got a call from her in late June of this year that her father had passed on. What happened?

After the surgery, someone did not do their job and the man was not given cancer treatment until three weeks before his death. By that time he was already having multiple organ failure. She said when he wasn't improving, a friend in the US asked her to take pictures of the medication and send to her. This friend kept on insisting that there was something off about the medication but since she is just a regular RN she couldn't quite figure out what was wrong. THREE WEEKS to when the man passed, a senior oncology consultant routinely going through the patient's file discovered that the man who should have started his treatment a month after the first surgery in 2024 had never been put on the correct medication. By that time the cancer had spread and it was far too late.

And where did this massive fuckery happen? FMC Ebuttemeta, Lagos.

Ishilove:
An ex-colleague's father was diagnosed of prostate cancer early last year. He was scheduled for surgery, and then after the surgery he would start taking the drugs and do chemo. To my surprise, I got a call from her in late June of this year that her father had passed on. What happened?

After the surgery, someone did not do their job and the man was not given cancer treatment until three weeks before his death. By that time he was already having multiple organ failure. She said when he wasn't improving, a friend in the US asked her to take pictures of the medication and send to her. This friend kept on insisting that there was something off about the medication but since she is just a regular RN she couldn't quite figure out what was wrong. THREE WEEKS to when the man passed, a senior oncology consultant routinely going through the patient's file discovered that the man who should have started his treatment a month after the first surgery in 2024 had never been put on the correct medication. By that time the cancer had spread and it was far too late.

And where did this massive fuckery happen? FMC Ebuttemeta, Lagos.

franchasng:
To er is human, to forgive is divine, move on, settle out of court, this is not America or Europe please.


Be glad you are cancer free and don't drag this thing further if it's not another of you Nigerian people's extreme content hustle




Accept their plea and settle out of court

If Nigerian private hospitals start employing consultants and experienced surgeons like you all demand, I dont think 90% of Nigerians will be able to afford healthcare treatments in any private hospital which are closing the lapses government owned hospitals left in Nigeria.

franchasng:
To er is human, to forgive is divine, move on, settle out of court, this is not America or Europe please.


Be glad you are cancer free and don't drag this thing further if it's not another of you Nigerian people's extreme content hustle




Accept their plea and settle out of court

If Nigerian private hospitals start employing consultants and experienced surgeons like you all demand, I dont think 90% of Nigerians will be able to afford healthcare treatments in any private hospital which are closing the lapses government owned hospitals left in Nigeria.

Glimpsetv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jPu-MmUaj0?si=NBsiDQBZwc4JmTua

SlavaUkraini:
Our medical system is in a mess no doubt

But this Lady should have confirmed the Cancer diagnosis from 2 or 3 other hospitals before being subjected to cancer treatment...

If Hospital A tells you that you have Cancer or HIV, tell them thank you.

Then go and confirm from Hospital B and C just to clear your doubts...

Cancer diagnosis is not Malaria 🦟 🦟 🦟 diagnosis that you can take from one source lightly...

Go to other places and clear your doubts before starting any treatment..


Nigeria not only happened to her, She happened to Nigeria.

seunoyeleyep:
This your craze no get rival.

MemoriesAndMe:
Correct!
When my wife and I were expecting our second child in Atlanta, GA, US and she was due in a few weeks, she was told she also had appendicitis and she was feeling stomach pains from that as well as from the pregnancy. They advised we returned a few months after the baby was born for the appendicitis surgery, which we did.

We had the baby and returned for the appendicitis surgery about 3 months later. It was successful - so we thought until wifey started complaining of stomach pains over and over from the day she had the surgery. Sometimes I had to leave work to get her painkillers and even took her to different clinics which kept prescribing all sorts of pain killers. It went on like that for about two weeks, she cried through each night and no one knew what was going on.

Later we go the call from the hospital we had the baby at (that also performed the appendicitis surgery) and they said after they did audits of the equipment they used on the surgery, they had one missing equipment and would like to conduct a free X-ray on wifey. I took her there and the X-ray showed they actually left an equipment in her stomach and sewed it back. That was what had been causing her all these pains. They had to reopen her stomach and take out the equipment they forgot and sew her stomach back all over again.

Wifey and I had to think about the way forward. At first, it may seem like suing the hospital may be financially rewarding to us, but some people would have lost their licenses and the hospital would have faced reputational damage too and may have ended up getting shut down if there have been several records of that. What would have been the fate of other patients that depend on that hospital on all their critical illnesses.

We simply decided to let it go, mainly because it was they that discovered their mistakes and called us about it. It's been peace ever since.

carnal:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7d3w7gdlo.amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/anger-nhs-wrongly-diagnosed-thousands-35855685.amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd2rppvmv5o.amp

Glimpsetv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jPu-MmUaj0?si=NBsiDQBZwc4JmTua

seunoyeleyep:
This your craze no get rival.

FarahAideed:
As a person your IQ .must be extremely blow to agree to chemotherapy ...that whole thing is fraudulent treatment aimed at killing you for experimental purposes ..that's not a treatment

epainos:
In as much as I do not like many Nigerian doctors because they don't know much again and still they behave like gods, there still remain very rare extremely good doctors. Those kind of doctors are who we identify and go for. When you get one, you have gotten the rest because the one doctor will start showing you good specialists when you need them for yourself or your family members. It's a network you must form.

If you just get up and visit a medical center, you are in trouble. You better have a very good family doctor who you consult every time. If that family doctor is truthful and innthe network of very good doctors, they know how to get themselves.

Another way around it is knowing a very good matron or senior nurse in teaching hospitals. Those matrons and senior nurses know good doctors.

And be ready to pay for private consultancy. When they get the right person you need, they will either recommend you visit them in their private hospital or during their rounds in teaching hospitals. Anywhere you get them, discuss the best way around your request. They may even still send you to their colleagues for another opinion.

This is the way to go about it. Not just visiting one expensive hospital.

If my inner circle doest recommend St Nicholas, wetin a wan go do there? Most times, I meet St Nicholas and Redington doctors first in teaching hospitals. Then they say that...see, if you want the best, come do this surgery or come for better example at this or that private hospital because they have better equipment. At times, I meet them at private hospital and they tell me that, go to LUTH, Ibadan,or even LASU (teaching hospital) and they have a very effective way around it. At times, na the same doctor who attended to you in a private hospital, you will still meet in teaching hospital. The same person will navigate it for you.

But you just wake up and go to a general hospital, na way to six feet below. Our health system is damaged. This is just the truth.

Bottom line is that you firt must have better money, and then, you use your sense. Take the case of Aketi (ex gov of Ondo)...Betty later said that he was using spirituality (may juju plus pastors or imam) to treat cancer. It was too late before you did the right thing. Having money doesn't equate using your sense. Some na that money go kill them. But when you don't have money, you are already dead.

Love800:
So you saying FMC(general hospitals) is bad?

FarahAideed:
As a person your IQ .must be extremely blow to agree to chemotherapy ...that whole thing is fraudulent treatment aimed at killing you for experimental purposes ..that's not a treatment