kikero:


So if you, God forbid, had covid 19, and you went to a hospital for help and the staff ran away from you....shey you would clap for them?

Angelfrost:


Doctors and nurses in better prepared and equipped climes are dying in their numbers... What does your country have in terms of hazard preparations and remuneration??!

A country where you pay an average healthcare staff 5k as hazard allowance, but dole out millions to senators for clothes alone, yet you want them to lay down their lives, forsaking their families for you??! On what grounds exactly??!...

Shey your labour minister said doctors can leave the country if they choose, that we have more than enough... Why the fuss if few out of the numerous choose not to risk their healths and lives??!...

I wonder why nma even called off our strike sef... This nation is not worth the time and effort tbh!!! Mtchewww!!!

WonderManly:


https://punchng.com/covid-19-doctors-nurses-flee-as-suspected-cases-hit-lagos-hospital/

kikero:


I am a medic, it affects me, and I took an oath to treat people.

See lassa fever. And HIV. The fact that fewer people die from both illnesses today is because medics... were bold enough to treat them write case reports, and do research into cures, at great risk to their lives....contributing to the knowledge base we have to help them.

As for you, vote out PDP and APC come 2023.....or run for office yourself and make things better.

I'm not running away from any sick patient. I took an oath as a doctor. I'm not going to run.

In the US...they are improvising in the abscence of PPE...because not every hospital there has adequate supplies. I'll do that if that happens.

Jaqenhghar:

...If you want millions too you can go and become a senator. If 5k is an excuse to behave the way those guys acted screaming and creating panic then you dont know your job MR.
Some of you think its all rosy abroad too? Actually I pray as many of you that want to go to go. Funny enough when you go there is no room for all these silly grumbling and you will see people paid way better than you and you must put in the work. No room for unprofessional behaviour.

nijabazaar:


Why would I not.

Why are they health personnel's then? Why did they partake in the oath then?

Imagine yourself as the Egyptians? Neglected in your greatest time of need by the very persons supposed to help you

kikero:


Italy has 92,472 cases of COVID 19 and about 10000 deaths as at today

Most of the dead are old people, or people with preexisting conditions like diabetes and heart disease.

Lassa is not global, as is Ebola because it mostly strikes rural, isolated communities.

MDR TB is rare...due to better treatment regimens, but back in the 1980's and 90, during the bad horror days of the HIV crisis, people used to die from that thing.

adidison:


That's like saying people who eat bat in Wuhan are most likely to get infected than vegetarians in Italy. But I know you have read what is happening in Italy. It's just 2 to 3 people it takes. Surely the rich have house boys and driver who do earns for them.

adidison:


5K ... you self use your church mind. Abroad is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better my guy. It's just because they are overwhelmed but the hospital will provide mask incase of situations like this.

TOPCRUISE:

My family members will be skilled to handle that kind of situation

eni4real:
Doctors are getting infected already!!

It is suicide to treat those Egyptians without Protection kits!!

Can you go to war without any weapon??

Stop the Hypocrisy!!

Ghostmode2two:
Most of you commenting here don't know what PPE is. If you have attended safety seminar or course you would understand the importance of PPE. The doctors and nurses in Gbagada general hospital don't have that and it is not a place where infectious diseases are treated. If you talk of kidney and heart disease that is what are treated and others. The government and senators of this country have killed this nation's health system. I tell you that there is no single ventilator in this hospital. Those receiving oxygen get it in a very funny way. Go and see for yourself

kikero:


I am a medic, it affects me, and I took an oath to treat people.

See lassa fever. And HIV. The fact that fewer people die from both illnesses today is because medics... were bold enough to treat them write case reports, and do research into cures, at great risk to their lives....contributing to the knowledge base we have to help them.

As for you, vote out PDP and APC come 2023.....or run for office yourself and make things better.

I'm not running away from any sick patient. I took an oath as a doctor. I'm not going to run.

In the US...they are improvising in the abscence of PPE...because not every hospital there has adequate supplies. I'll do that if that happens.

eni4real:
The only global outbreak here is Coronavirus.. Others were local outbreak!!!
None of them is close to Coronavirus!!!

Fragility6:

So u would happily welcome an Ebola patient without PPE?

Were in d US are health workers improvising in d absence of PPE. I would like to know

nijabazaar:


It is not hypocrisy.

It is ethical that they live up to their calling.

Why are Doctors sacrificing their lives in New York or Spain or Italy? Are they a special breed? Is it because they are Caucasians? You have heard reports of doctors handling covid patients in UK with just nose masks not even the N95.
You haven't heard of Nurses fashioning out protective gear from polythene and rubber because of a lack of gear in Spain?

kikero:


I would improvise immediately. There are ways (How do you think rural hosptials run in this country! )




Here is this report from New York (at the epicenter of the crisis)

Here is this report about European doctors improvising from Bloomberg

And here is this report from Spain

klax:
OP point of correction they are not white men but Egyptian or better call them Arab ok.

Fragility6:

Have encountered an Ebola patient before?

Wen dey do, oga dem go close down

Fragility6:

I no dey speak grammar. Jst ask google hw many ventilators Nigeria get? Who d govt. wan stress wit dier incompetence. If dey had done the right thing by providing better health centers i no sure if dose workers 4 run not forgetting say govt. still dey owe them o. Guy u fit work witout pay. Sometimes mk we put ourselves 4 oda pple positions bfor we criticise

DominusPrime:
Well if the director says it's a lie I don't blame him. GGH is not equipped to fight infectious diseases. I wonder who that doctor is that referred them there. He needs to be tested for the virus too cos he obviously does not understand basic protocol about this disease.

eni4real:
Those Doctors sacrificing their lives in Italy, USA has protection kits on... But they were overwhelmed because there were many sick people to attend to and the infection find a way to penetrate them at the point of duty!!

These Nigerian Doctors have no protection kits at all.. Don't you understand??

Attending to those Egyptians is Suicide..

If that is how foreign Doctors attend to all those patients abroad without Protection, there won't be Doctors alive in those Countries by now!!!

You seem like someone that can die for Nigeria??

Hope I am right??

ChybuzzDD:


That's how most of you talk stupidly without having the basic information.
Why not first ask if they have PPE in that hospital? I hope you know what PPE is?
Without it, no one has any business attending to a suspected case of Covid-19.
Most general hospitals in Nigeria don't even have hand gloves, let alone PPEs.
Your guys are ignorantly focusing on the health workers who are given nothing to work with, instead of on the government which has failed to equip the hospitals. I feel you bro. It's like saying someone needs a heart surgery and you go to a hospital where are there are no specialists in that field. The hospital will never treat you no matter how close that person is to death.

zikter:
Nobody is asking them to treat a suspected case of corona at Gbagada. As a general hospital, they should simply call Yaba that they have a suspicious case of corona. Believe me, the response would have been rapid. How far is Yaba from Gbagada? The only responsible thing they should have done is to ensure the case reached appropriate center. It not all hospitals in Nigeria or any other place in the world that will treat the virus, however such hospitals have the responsibility to ensure suspected cases reached designated centers. What's it with running and shouting, it is not my portion? If all the hospitals not capable of admitting corona cases run away without ensuring such case reached IDH, how are we going to fight the virus. Let us just agree that their behavior was not professional and move on

Jaqenhghar:

Of course its waay better no one is disputing that.
I actually pray as many as want to go let God provide a way. Oyinbo wont take half the nonsense they put people though here. The best part is even doctors abroad feel they are not compensated enough. They will wotk every ce t out of you and you dare not complain.

kikero:


Never. (the last ebola outbreak happened far away from where I practice)



No I won't. I stay and fight. Dr Adaevoh did not run away, many of my colleagues did not run away in 2014...and I am not going to run away.

nijabazaar:


You said they had to attend to thosepatients with less gear because they were overwhelmed , right?

In our situation , we are also overwhelmed by a lack of facilities too

But the difference is that the Caucasians doctors went ahead despite the desperate situations. That is the Hippocrates oath. Render help to the sick no matter how uncomfortable you might feel or be.

No I won't die for Nigeria but I am a human phucking being. I hate Buhari does not mean that if I am a doctor and he needs emergency surgery and I won't render help.

I mean it is expected of a Christian.

There are several ways to render the dammed help. Why not isolate them and call NCDC?

One was even saying it is not her portion. Whose portion. Nonsense