Richy4:

I totally understand you trust me buddy.. I am not in the medical field.. Life first before any other thing is what I am talking about... is there a way that a dying patient could be stabilized or rescued from the point of death...

I am not saying that he/she should be given full treatment.. Just enough for him or her to be alive first before Money negotiations kicks in.. That's just my line of argument..

FuckDModz:


No be say this doctor sabi anything sha.

Even in developed countries, doctors are sued for negligence or ineptitude. Some even lose their license to practice.

But here, we have a doctor telling the world he couldn't save a life because the girl looked like a skeleton.

Omo, Nigerian quack doctors dey enjoy sha. Most of them go abroad to become PAs (physician assistants) but they behave like Voltrons here.

Fucking bastards!

Sodiq3:
But that doesn't change the fact that many Nigerian doctors, especially Nurses most time show nonchalant attitude to patients.

ijustdey:
“The day I knew I didn’t have a future practicing medicine in Nigeria was the day I was almost beaten by a patient relative in…




https://tribuneonlineng.com/doctors-share-stories-of-attack-on-duty-in-nigerian-hospitals/

TONYE001:


If every patient pays up, there'd certainly be some money to accommodate emergencies. If the government decides to create funds to cushion hospital cost, emergencies will be covered.

But what happens in situations where some patients refuse to pay, and the government is doing next to nothing to help the situation? How will consumables be acquired? How will hospital staff (that will attend to the patient) be paid?

If a private facility continues to "save lives first" and patients fail to pay thereafter, they'd close down in no time.

FlawlessKarl:


Shut up there. If a patient refuses to pay after treatment can't you take a legal action with such a patient? okay, Because of bad attitude of few patients that's they reason you fools kill alot of people by not attending to them until the pay till the last dime.

If there's any body that can beat or kill some of you fools I will be so glad and infact I will pay such person. Nigerian doctors are bastards, fools that knows nothing rather than priding themselves in quackery and killing alot of innocent people.


May God punish you guys, may you people die miserable in this life.

Patriotic9ja:
Attacking medical practitioners is wrong in all terms. But these doctors too should be calming down. They have done more wrongs/damages in Nigeria than the said attacks they are having. In Nigeria their level of unprofessionalism and negligence is alarming. Which have led to numerous preventable deaths and many near misses. If not that there aren't systems checkmating their shortcomings, many of them would've lost their licences and serving jail terms.... I can count many cases of medical practitioners' carelessness, negligence, and unprofessionalism, leading to losses of many forms.

Guyman01:
If patients also tell you the lack of empathy and negligence shown to patients by medical personnel in Nigeria you will faint in horror.
We took a profusely bleeding accident victim to the hospital and I watched in horror how they were all doing as if it means nothing if the patient dies, we kept begging them to at least stop the bleeding and their response after almost 1 hour with so much laxity and nonchalance was :we don't have bed space" if you are the relative of that dying man with a gun in your pocket you won't even know when you will release your bullet on those mudafacking health workers.

It's a systemic failure and both the doctors and patients should share the blame.
We watch how they attend to emergencies abroad, just pray not to be a victim at the mercy of our health workers, some of them seem to want you to die quickly so that they can tell your relatives the usual "sorry o na so God want am" or Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un for the Muslims

Neroclassic001:

You are very right. A doctor almost killed my mum with excess dose of an antibiotics.
I went to visit my mum in the hospital straight from work. Not long, a doc came to administer her evening shots. I was keenly observing him as I usually do and noticed his error just as he was about to give the shot.

FlawlessKarl:


Shut up there. If a patient refuses to pay after treatment can't you take a legal action with such a patient? okay, Because of bad attitude of few patients that's they reason you fools kill alot of people by not attending to them until the pay till the last dime.

If there's any body that can beat or kill some of you fools I will be so glad and infact I will pay such person. Nigerian doctors are bastards, fools that knows nothing rather than priding themselves in quackery and killing alot of innocent people.


May God punish you guys, may you people die miserable in this life.

TONYE001:


Wow. Let me attempt to clarify things here.

1. Healthcare delivery in Nigeria and abroad is truly not the same, just like it's different across other countries.

2. Doctors don't believe they are next to God. Doctors don't assign their jobs to nurses or other professionals to do. If you've seen any instant where a doctor asked a nurse to do his job, mention it in a quote.

3. A doctor can't be with you/your relative all the time, not in our environment at least. The patient-to-doctor ratio here is extremely poor. In some hospitals, a doctor that's on call will be responsible for the entire medical and surgical wards (M and F). How do you want him to be with your patient all the time?

4. Doctors don't order for tests "to use patients as experiments." Where did you even hear this from? If a doctor sees a patient and immediately pronounces that the patient will die without doing anything, you'd come here to cry for his head. Now, the doctor intends to help and asks for some investigations to get a better understanding of what's up, you are now accusing him of this No doctor will order for investigations without first stabilizing the patient. If you bring in a patient in an emergency setting, after stabilizing the patient, the next thing is to try to work out what the actual problem is...this involves clerking, physical examination, and investigations (tests). If your patient dies while some tests are being conducted, is it the doctor's fault

5. Comparing the Nigerian situation to your experience in Europe: healthcare workers don't even have enough hand gloves and other PPE's to use...most hospitals can't afford to give these to the husbands of women in labour because they want to witness the delivery. In most teaching hospitals, the labour room is a poorly-demarcated broad room. We don't allow patients' spouses to come in....because we would be exposing other ladies' privacies to you! We don't have enough facilities to have one patient to a room... Our peculiarities make it unfair to compare our health system with that of developed nations.

6. You want change? Talk to your leaders. Vote rightly. The entire change has to be revamped! It's not the doctor's fault that things are like this. Doctors are doing their best, really. A LOT OF TIMES, they go as far as paying for patients...they donate blood for patients...they do a lot...because the system does not even meet the minimal expectation of what an ideal hospital should be.

7. In conclusion, ensure you (and your friends/family) come to the hospital early. Don't wait until it's too late. If you truly feel that the doctor didn't handle your case as he should, there are legal options to pursue justice.

8. Doctors have the right to defend themselves. If a doctor feels threatened, and there is no possibility to escape from the situation, be rest assured that he'd fight back, to whatever extent.

beejaay:

Neroclassic001:

You are very right. A doctor almost killed my mum with excess dose of an antibiotics.
I went to visit my mum in the hospital straight from work. Not long, a doc came to administer her evening shots. I was keenly observing him as I usually do and noticed his error just as he was about to give the shot.

Richy4:
I don't blame some relatives sometimes though... The day that they will decide on changing some hospital policies, then the attack might cease..

Many Hospitals puts money first before the lives of individual/ citizens.. I believe that was not what they were taught in school..That was not part of their oath of office especially in a poor country like Nigeria..

How can one see someone that was about to die, instead of at least rescuing the person from the hands of death first without administering full treatment of recovery, they just ignore the person until family members have deposited millions... That's just inhumane behavior...

Desusi:
I have witnessed doctor attention to patients in Nigeria and outside here.ln Nigeria, doctor believed they are next to God.ln most cases, the leave most of their responsibilities for matrons. When you need their attention and they are nowhere to be found, matron will tell you,its not my job.At other times,when a patience is brought to an hospital they know quite alright that the patients may not survived the illness, they will start to do series of tests and be using the sick for experiment until the patient died.Tell me, after wasted thousands of naira if not millions, how you will not transfer aggression on them. Many years ago when my wife was to give birth to my first child in Europe, l was treated like somebody. You will see the professional ways things were done.As a young African man,they asked me, Sir,would you want to stay with us in the labour room? l said, yes. ok.
They gave me hand gloves, cap and mouth cover.when they discovered l couldn't bear my wife crying,they took me aside and asked me to sign for operation. I said no, no.lam from a Royal family,just to avoid operation. Later they told me, they gave my wife the next 15 minutes to press.Meanwhile, they made hot tea for me asking me how is Africa.?As God will do it ,my wife deliver safely. Tell me,which general hospital in Nigeria, such would be done to you? No, Not even in a private hospital.

FlawlessKarl:


Shut up there. If a patient refuses to pay after treatment can't you take a legal action with such a patient? okay, Because of bad attitude of few patients that's they reason you fools kill alot of people by not attending to them until the pay till the last dime.

If there's any body that can beat or kill some of you fools I will be so glad and infact I will pay such person. Nigerian doctors are bastards, fools that knows nothing rather than priding themselves in quackery and killing alot of innocent people.


May God punish you guys, may you people die miserable in this life.

airsaylongcome:
Must have been 2015 or 2016. Got a call from a nurse at my dad's practice to turn up real quick. My dad, a FWACS, FRCS(Ed) general surgeon, 30 years as a Consultant had been physically attacked by relatives of a surgical patient that had passed. I don't remember the details of the patient's case but patient had been taken to all trado-medical homes and churches without respite. Why my dad did not just refer them to FMC Abeokuta beggars belief. He had always been known as a super-doc and I'm sure in his head he could salvage the patient. Anyway, patient made it out of OR but died post-op. Family came and attacked him during his morning ward rounds in his practice just outside Abeokuta, in an area of Oyo State called "Oke-ogun" and I was in Lagos. Came with cudgels and all and his 60+ year old self had to literally run. I was in Lagos when the call came. I mobilized awon goons mi and we stormed the yard. Pure mayhem that day. That Yoruba tag line "Olopa ma ko gbogbo wa" came to real life. Since that day, he swore never to take on Kwale patients (patients were from Ukwani in Delta State and we were also Deltans bordering Ukwani people, so he basically took the patients because "na my brothers". Must have done him a lot of internal damage as my dad passed within one or two years of the incident.

RIP to one of the greatest surgeons that ever lived

airsaylongcome:
Must have been 2015 or 2016. Got a call from a nurse at my dad's practice to turn up real quick. My dad, a FWACS, FRCS(Ed) general surgeon, 30 years as a Consultant had been physically attacked by relatives of a surgical patient that had passed. I don't remember the details of the patient's case but patient had been taken to all trado-medical homes and churches without respite. Why my dad did not just refer them to FMC Abeokuta beggars belief. He had always been known as a super-doc and I'm sure in his head he could salvage the patient. Anyway, patient made it out of OR but died post-op. Family came and attacked him during his morning ward rounds in his practice just outside Abeokuta, in an area of Oyo State called "Oke-ogun" and I was in Lagos. Came with cudgels and all and his 60+ year old self had to literally run. I was in Lagos when the call came. I mobilized awon goons mi and we stormed the yard. Pure mayhem that day. That Yoruba tag line "Olopa ma ko gbogbo wa" came to real life. Since that day, he swore never to take on Kwale patients (patients were from Ukwani in Delta State and we were also Deltans bordering Ukwani people, so he basically took the patients because "na my brothers". Must have done him a lot of internal damage as my dad passed within one or two years of the incident.

RIP to one of the greatest surgeons that ever lived

theophorus:
Occupational hazard?

Do you know how many Patients all these Doctors have used as Lab rats and kill in the process?

Nigeria Doctors will give a wrong diagnose and wrong prescription but will quickly removed the part of the fill where they did the mistake once the patient packs.

Have you ever wonder why our politicians don't use Hospitals here? It cos most of them have the Nigerian orientation to work unfortunately just like the FGGC issue, there are a lot of damage and unnecessary death caused by them.

If Doctors and Nurses have done their Best for every patient with Emphathy I think dem no go dey collect beating.

ijustdey:
“The day I knew I didn’t have a future practicing medicine in Nigeria was the day I was almost beaten by a patient relative in…




https://tribuneonlineng.com/doctors-share-stories-of-attack-on-duty-in-nigerian-hospitals/

FuckDModz:


No be say this doctor sabi anything sha.

Even in developed countries, doctors are sued for negligence or ineptitude. Some even lose their license to practice.

But here, we have a doctor telling the world he couldn't save a life because the girl looked like a skeleton.

Omo, Nigerian quack doctors dey enjoy sha. Most of them go abroad to become PAs (physician assistants) but they behave like Voltrons here.

Fucking bastards!

FuckDModz:


No be say this doctor sabi anything sha.

Even in developed countries, doctors are sued for negligence or ineptitude. Some even lose their license to practice.

But here, we have a doctor telling the world he couldn't save a life because the girl looked like a skeleton.

Omo, Nigerian quack doctors dey enjoy sha. Most of them go abroad to become PAs (physician assistants) but they behave like Voltrons here.

Fucking bastards!

HardBishop:

Thats why GENERAL BUHARI avoided Nigerian hospital so as for him to live long. I think whites doctors are more professional in handling life than we blacks. The only thing we know is to know to how break record.

TONYE001:


What a sad experience! So sorry about the passing of your dad.

IGNORANCE, frustration, poverty, and sometimes, pure hatred and jealousy are major players in a typical doctor-patient relationship in our environment. If not, how does one arrive at a conclusion that "a doctor killed his person" without conducting an autopsy? Most of our people take their relatives to all sorts of corners before bringing them to the hospital...and they expect the doctor to perform magic...

I once watched a video where a certain pastor was violently kicking the abdomen of a gravid woman in the name of deliverance. Such stupidity!

Our people will go about exhausting their resources on babawalos et al. and when the person is almost gone (also when they've run out of cash), they'd bring the poor individual to the hospital. You see ignorant people that know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the human body/health will be giving idiotic medical advice to friends/neighbours/etc...causing more harm/damage.

We once had a case of obstructed labour. This woman had been to a TBA where she was forced to push...she ran into exhaustion, and soon began to bleed. She was rushed to the emergency ward...her baby had died and she lost her uterus. Young woman in her twenties. She almost died, as a matter of fact. If she had died, who knows Her people would have caused havoc in the hospital.

We need to revamp the system. The National Orientation Agency has a lot of job to do. We need to have readily-available armed security in our hospitals, especially in volatile centres. And, most importantly, healthcare workers must be willing to protect themselves at all cost.

jessylaurel:


All I can say is Nigeria health practitioners (doctors) are all negligent..

airsaylongcome:


Too much fallacy of generalization here. White doctors more professional? If a Nigerian doctor told you to run a battery of tests before they can start treating for malaria, will you run the tests? Or would you just go to the nearest "chemist" to buy Paracetamol and Anti-malarial?

HardBishop:

Hmm when they will skyrocketed prizes because to check if your blood has malaria if typhoid? Where doctors even add little charges together with the stipulated of fixed charges?
Some will tell you to visit another hospital for common test? See we have to set things straight. U can't see such e.g in UK or china.
Is everywhere around, don't be sentimental