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I think all medical practitioners in general and teaching hospitals need to be sensitized. It's a national syndrome among them. Many of them are so callous about human lives and seem disinterested in their jobs. Imagine asking a doctor about my health and he's angry I'm asking. What nonsense.

emmy512:

Exactly
There's an underlying issue why medical professionals avoid some people,

A friends mother who is a senior nurse at a teaching hospital explained to me why somethings happen.

One thing was the fact deaths are counted against them, so if they see someone they feel is about to die or have no hope they'll reject

It ll never be well with that friend of your mother in Jesus name.

To escape this geographical contraption is my one & only desire.

Japa or Japa!

If you see chance, comot this country oo.

Your unborn kids will thank you for that singular act

God in heaven will bear me witness that I said it and I won't say more than this ..

Image123:
Good, but it's a national case. We're so used to dealing with scapegoats instead of also solving the underlying issues.

Exactly!

One of the underlying issues is shortage of staff which cause the few ones on ground to burn out readily because hospitals run 24/7. This is aside the poor pay they collect!

From your long quote trying to analyse dessemination of duties, I think the victim should've been left for death. Since it's not the duty of the samaritan that brought him to the hospital to do so.
Bro. Have you ever visited most of these govt. health facilities to see the lackadaisical attitude of staffs? While trying to draw govt attention on the need to employ more hands, this act should be totally condemn please.

Jman06:
Honestly, it is not the nurse's duty to lift the accident victims off the car and into the hospital ward.

That incident underscores the gross shortage of staff in our public hospitals. JOHESU and other groups have been calling for increased employment of staff into our hospitals but government and hospital management have maintained deaf ears over the years.

Go to many of these government hospitals, you'll see that there's a total shortage of both clinical and non-clinical staff in these hospitals, yet when incidents like the one in question happens, the few staff on ground are expected to become superhumans and do even jobs they are not employed to do.

I don't blame the nurse!

adamkkk:
again ??

I will say this for this reason only.

I pray this is University Of Abuja Teaching Hospital. It so terrible that the numbers of people that die from professional misconduct of trained and confused student doctors are far more than the ones that die from natural causes.

This is not baseless. Give me a camera and have me produce a documentary on this.

Sha talk the one you dey sure of because this your assertion is horribly wrong.

Abi you do any study/research to arrive at this conclusion?

adamkkk:
again ??

I will say this for this reason only.

I pray this is University Of Abuja Teaching Hospital. It so terrible that the numbers of people that die from professional misconduct of trained and confused student doctors are far more than the ones that die from natural causes.

This is not baseless. Give me a camera and have me produce a documentary on this.

I once took my friend who had a fatal accident there around 10pm. Drs refused to attend to him except d consultant (that only visit once a week and that was d day he had earlier visited). A kind nurse called me aside and gave me d consultant phone number but warned me not to mention her name. When I called him, d first question he asked was who gave me his phone number. I asked him if he isn't a public officer and a service provider paid with hard earned tax payers money to provide services? I told him it's insensitive for him to asked me how I got his phone number. He told me that he can only come d following week that he's done for d week (that was Monday oh) that he only comes once a week. I reminded him that my conversation with him is recorded should anything untoward happens to my friend and that I will hold him able. That was when he asked if I had gotten d card, I told him that was done a long time ago, within 5 minutes, he arrived. When he saw d level of d injury, he had to invite another consultant to him. Conversely, if I didn't take that step, imagine what would had happened to my friend? U see those people, they r heartless.

emmy512:

Exactly
There's an underlying issue why medical professionals avoid some people,

A friends mother who is a senior nurse at a teaching hospital explained to me why somethings happen.

One thing was the fact deaths are counted against them, so if they see someone they feel is about to die or have no hope they'll reject

Which kind of thinking is that? What do you mean by deaths are counted against them? mstchew

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Small thing wey optha suppose fix..that lady dem force am enter nursing abi medicine..she don allow dem enter am now..ppl wey dey for house go come siddons dey judge them now.

adamkkk:
again ??

I will say this for this reason only.

I pray this is University Of Abuja Teaching Hospital. It so terrible that the numbers of people that die from professional misconduct of trained and confused student doctors are far more than the ones that die from natural causes.

This is not baseless. Give me a camera and have me produce a documentary on this.

I have a bad experience in University of Abuja Teaching Hospital where a student doctor gave the wrong treatment to a patient and he died.
The wrong injection led to immediate system collapse, the senior doctor who came to the scene as the young man who happens to be a university student was gasping for breath was blaming the House Officer but they covered it up and told the dead patient's relative that it was the will of Allah.

I couldn't take up the matter because my own relative was in a critical situation at that point battling for his life.
I dread Nigeria hospitals, what happened there is exactly the situation of handling Accident victims in General hospitals

Jman06:
Honestly, it is not the nurse's duty to lift the accident victims off the car and into the hospital ward.

That incident underscores the gross shortage of staff in our public hospitals. JOHESU and other groups have been calling for increased employment of staff into our hospitals but government and hospital management have maintained deaf ears over the years.

Go to many of these government hospitals, you'll see that there's a total shortage of both clinical and non-clinical staff in these hospitals, yet when incidents like the one in question happens, the few staff on ground are expected to become superhumans and do even jobs they are not employed to do.

I don't blame the nurse! Government should devise a means to increase employment of staff into these hospitals! You don't just employ a few hands and expect them to burn themselves out on top of the chicken change they're getting paid.

How did you arrive at the conclusion that it is lack of staff that made them to not bring the guy out of the car?

The is madt. If it was not on video, they would deny it. Now they just want to punish the staff, when in truth, the management are responsible.

Please pay ur Dr's and nurses well they have families and children..u can't expect a hungry dr or nurse to be running like Jackie.

souldeep:
From your long quote trying to analyse dessemination of duties, I think the victim should've been left for death. Since it's not the duty of the samaritan that brought him to the hospital to do so.
Bro. Have you ever visited most of these govt. health facilities to see the lackadaisical attitude of staffs? While trying to draw govt attention on the need to employ more hands, this act should be totally condemn please.

In accident cases like this, the PORTERS are responsible for carrying the victims into wards. Now where there are no porters on ground, what do you expect? The doctors and nurses, most of whom are women, are not the right people to start lifting the victims into stretchers and carrying them into wards for treatment.

If you had male doctors or nurses, they could help out of comion, not their duties! But with biased and lopsided appointments, most Nigerian hospitals are filled with female staff who can only do little.

bekpo:


I once took my friend who had a fatal accident there around 10pm. Drs refused to attend to him except d consultant (that only visit once a week and that was d day he had earlier visited). A kind nurse called me aside and gave me d consultant phone number but warned me not to mention her name. When I called him, d first question he asked was who gave me his phone number. I asked him if he isn't a public officer and a service provider paid with hard earned tax payers money to provide services? I told him it's insensitive for him to asked me how I got his phone number. He told me that he can only come d following week that he's done for d week (that was Monday oh) that he only comes once a week. I reminded him that my conversation with him is recorded should anything untoward happens to my friend and that I will hold him able. That was when he asked if I had gotten d card, I told him that was done a long time ago, within 5 minutes, he arrived. When he saw d level of d injury, he had to invite another consultant to him. Conversely, if I didn't take that step, imagine what would had happened to my friend? U see those people, they r heartless.

Na who never jam Nigerian health practitioners go think say this na superstory

Berankis:
The is madt. If it was not on video, they would deny it. Now they just want to punish the staff, when in truth, the management are responsible.

Trust them at ur peril..dem fit go unlock the store produce 2 pack of gloves...see as them set table as if everything dey readily available normally..na scam

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:

How did you arrive at the conclusion that it is lack of staff that made them to not bring the guy out of the car?

Lifting the victims out of the car and onto stretchers is the duty of porters or nursing assistants and not that of the doctor or nurse. From the clip, no porters were on ground to do that, so you don't expect the doctor (or nurse) -- who's a woman to carry the victims.

Jman06:
In accident cases like this, the PORTERS are responsible for carrying the victims into wards. Now where there are no porters on ground, what do you expect? The doctors and nurses, most of whom are women, are not the right people to start lifting the victims into stretchers and carrying them into wards for treatment.

If you had male doctors or nurses, they could help out of comion, not their duties! But with biased and lopsided appointments, most Nigerian hospitals are filled with female staff who can only do little.

Absolutely..Dr's are not porters..bit these days dey wan turn them to Dr's.. nurses..porters...even cleaners..lab attendant...orderly etc..very annoying..if they can help its out of comion not a duty

Blitzking:

Absolutely..Dr's are not porters..bit these days dey wan turn them to Dr's.. nurses..porters...even cleaners..lab attendant...orderly etc..very annoying..if they can help its out of comion not a duty

Exactly my point

Same way they refused to attend to my Elder Brother at Alimosho General Hospital Igando.

It's very dangerous to ur licence to work in a government hospital cos
1) they are poorly equipped and staffed
2) the workload no get limit na till you kpai
3) God help you a patient get one politician number dem go use u take shine even with the dilapidated state of the facility and to boost their ego to their fan base that dey are working
4) patient will never understand these things and will descend on you..Will u manufacture mechanical ventilator or oxygen or bedspace or will u turn urself to an orderly

One of the highest SKILL to have to become a Nurse or Teacher is.... EMPATHY.

If you don't have EMPATHY, please do not become a Nurse or a Teacher.

Thank you.

Exgee:
They should be sacked . Very wicked and heartless people

Sacking them won't be enough. They should be prosecuted to serve as example and deterrent to others like them

Image123:


Exactly, plus other things like money. Who's buying and paying for the treatment. Who's footing the medical bills. It's a tough but valid call that's unsolved. There's no medical insurance and proper identity.

Not forgetting that relatives of the patient are on standby to beat up clinical staff if the patient dies. No medical staff, I repeat NO MEDICAL STAFF is happy at the death of a patient. But Nigeria has taught them to protect themselves first.

Touch the patient now and when it's time to pay bills, stories arise.

Seriously serious. I hope is not a cover-up for the gloves. I pity the nurse. The doctors also are in for the mess. Emergency doctor should be always available to intervene in this situation

They will first give you bill..if you cant pay the deposite the person wil die there. It just money for them.

What is the duty of a nurse in an Accident and Emergency unit of a federal medical centre if i may ask u?

I pray may Nigeria not happen to you. Nonsense!

Jman06:
Honestly, it is not the nurse's duty to lift the accident victims off the car and into the hospital ward.

That incident underscores the gross shortage of staff in our public hospitals. JOHESU and other groups have been calling for increased employment of staff into our hospitals but government and hospital management have maintained deaf ears over the years.

Go to many of these government hospitals, you'll see that there's a total shortage of both clinical and non-clinical staff in these hospitals, yet when incidents like the one in question happens, the few staff on ground are expected to become superhumans and do even jobs they are not employed to do.

I don't blame the nurse! Government should devise a means to increase employment of staff into these hospitals! You don't just employ a few hands and expect them to burn themselves out on top of the chicken change they're getting paid.

I always said it that it is high time Nigerians start getting all these abnormalities on camera. The authorities will be uncomfortable when the evidences are so glaring.

somethinggood:
What is the duty of a nurse in an Accident and Emergency unit of a federal medical centre if i may ask u?

I pray may Nigeria not happen to you. Nonsense!

Definitely not to lift a hefty victim off the car and onto stretchers and then pushing into the ward. Porters are responsible for that job not nurses nor doctors. Imagine a female nurse or doctor being expected to lift such a victim!

Let's learn how to channel our anger to the right people (ie government) who fail to employ enough hands to man our hospitals!

airsaylongcome:


Not forgetting that relatives of the patient are on standby to beat up clinical staff if the patient dies. No medical staff, I repeat NO MEDICAL STAFF is happy at the death of a patient. But Nigeria has taught them to protect themselves first.

Touch the patient now and when it's time to pay bills, stories arise.

Funny but true.

Stop defending what is Bad!

She erred in all ramifications.

As the first responder, show empathy, even if you wont do it because you feel you are too big to save a life cos its not your duty, call the subordinate you feel is beneath you to do it.

I insist she did everything wrong!

Jman06:
Definitely not to lift a hefty victim off the car and onto stretchers and then pushing into the ward. Porters are responsible for that job not nurses nor doctors. Imagine a female nurse or doctor being expected to lift such a victim!

Let's learn how to channel our anger to the right people (ie government) who fail to employ enough hands to man our hospitals!