We left off with the advantages of visting a public hospital especially secondary/tertiary centers. If you didn't get the memo, click here. So lets get straight into it.

1. Expect a queue

Expect a queue the length of an anaconda.Seeing as a lot of Nigerians will visit a public hospital (especially after reading our last post, we dream generously), you should not be surprised. Accept that times are hard and we all look to take advantage of the cost cutting that government hospitals provide. So take a book or catch up on social media. You could use that time to update yourself on your favorite sites, including hopefully yours truly

2. Expect bureaucracy

A lot of times, someone is rushed into the hospital by anxious relatives who want immediate attention only to be told "Go open a card". It can be frustrating. This red tapism is present in other segments of the hospital. For instance, you cannot jump to see my consultant. You have to be referred from the accident and emergency or from the general physician or from our clinic. Usually you'll find out that such rules are laid down to prevent chaos in the system.

3. Expect delays and general inconvenience

One of the first things you'll notice in the public hospital is the seemingly deliberate attempt to make things inconvenient. You pay in the east to collect a card in the west to see a doctor in the north. The location of the lab and pharmacy is another issue entirely. Due to the huge volume of patients these facilities give healthcare to, you may also have to wait a while to get your laboratory workup. And if you have a relative on admission, you will quickly notice the hospital isn't a hotel! So plan for your accommodation.

4. Expect some brashness

Health workers come from different backgrounds. They also have different issues troubling them. However they must all come to work. So while a good proportion of health workers are as cool as cucumber, some are about as smooth as sandpaper. Allow them be. So long as you have a card, you'll be attended to. So join the queue and wait your turn. You may also want to understand that with the degree of workload they have, even the most patient health worker may occasionally lose his cool. So dont take it so personal.

5. Nigerians will be Nigerians

We generally like to cut corners. So expect the queue jumping, the inside deals, the abrasiveness of some and the attitude of those who feel better by causing others discomfort. It is ironic as these are persons have come to recieve some form of health care too! Do your best to ignore the ignorant.

Armed with these points, you may find your experience if any wouldn't be so disconcerting.

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I hope you know non-Nigerians are here?

What is the meaning of 'Nigerians will be Nigerians'

lol...

Texykool:
I hope you know non-Nigerians are here?
What is the meaning of 'Nigerians will be Nigerians'

Expect to see Medical students and Doctors using your body and ailments as subject of study. They even ask you questions like they'll provide immediate solution.

Well that process is universal. That is how the old doctors were trained and that is how newer doctors will be trained.

temigracie:

Expect to see Medical students and Doctors using your body and ailments as subject of study. They even ask you questions like they'll provide immediate solution.

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Very true.

#1 to 3 re sooo on point. Kaiii
OP u get brain

So true

These are common features of most public institutions in Nigeria - queues, waiting, delays etc

Blackchampion:
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Expect to be killed. If it doesn't happen, thank God.

And for the University Teaching Hospitals, expect to be used as experimental specimen by medical students.

Naija and suffering sha!

Welcome to Africa.

kk

Next topic pls:



5 tinx u shld expect when visiting a pooling ground

GoodluckJonatan:

meaning

Blackchampion:
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see u

just go early cos u will wait.

They usually start by 9am so be there like 8.30am to write your name on the register or pick a space or number.

Then u will be through no later than 9.30am

that is true OP




See pics of 15 year old Jaylen Fryberg, who opened fire in his school yesterday killing two

what?

justi4jesu:

u d use me book space nii?

I completely agree with the OP but the Admin / getting a card part is probably the worse. The admin people in Nigeria always want to show you that they are also important in the scheme of things in short rightly put they are more important than anyone else. From my personal experience with public hospitals I can tell you that it's pathetic . A case study is the General Hospital Warri where in order to open your file you have to basically walk around the entire Hosptial from one office to another paying little cash and wasting time before ending up where u started initially to pick up the card the entire process takes between 30 minutes - 1 hour.


What a Shame

When was the last tym i was in an hospital sef

6.Expect the smell!

K

Expect viewing centre mode by male doctors and their i.t students guys on your pregnant wife that vowed no man will see her unclothedness except you, her husband.

All those guys you see commenting 'ok' and 'k' above.. Don't blame them, they didn't read the topic but just went straight to post a comment to make FP.. Nlenders sha.. FP na hutsle

It's called public. What do u expect?

Expect not to see d doctor or see him or her after waiting 4 long hours, cos they are running their private hospitals somewhere.....too bad so many people have lost their lives cos of dis nonsense.

Heal τ̲̅ђe sick Lord...