InvertedHammer:
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Doctors in.Nigeria work under terrible conditions financially and otherwise.

Worst part of it all, some of the people.went into.medicine for prestige, money or dictates of their family. There is no.passion. I interviewed a couple of them that work in some hospitals in FCT and all I could do was shake my head. I walked a.few through the algorithms of ACLS and you could see the astonishing and overwhelmed looks in their faces. It was then that it finally dawned on me why politicians run to foreign countries for medical check. I don't want to go into the gory details of what I saw when I visited UNTH.

babyosisi:
You folks think the average roadside clinic can handle a gun shot wound or accident victim.

They can't help the patients much even if they wanted to,they don't have the necessary equipment needed to do that,neither do they have the expertise for the most part.
Even here in the USA ,severe trauma and gun shot patients don't just end up at the nearest hospital and even when they do it's just for stabilization before they are taken by mediflight to trauma centers equipped to handle such.

You folks are demanding too much from people who have no knowledge,no experience and no training in handling things like this.

Most of these doctors probably just have an MBBS and nothing more

The facilities have no in house labs,X-ray or scan machines,no blood bank let alone more sophisticated equipment needed to stabilize such patients and certainly cannot perform the life saving surgeries these patients need.

They operate with much limitation,truth be told

Most are actually glorified dispensaries

The police report is just a way to send them away to go die elsewhere and not in their facility

The most they can do is put a drip in the patients arm if they can find a visible vein and watch him die

The average Nigerian so-called hospital can't do much for you beyond malaria and appendicitis if you're lucky

Let us remember the plight of DJDOLA ,two months in a Lagos hospital and millions of naira and they couldn't even give a definitive diagnosis and used our friend for experiment ,treating him for everything else and making up diagnosis along the way while billing the patient and smiling to the bank.

That should be an eye opener

bendeniceguy:
Congo 0 Nigeria 2 CAF u20 live

http://www.lc2international.tv/

InvertedHammer:
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Doctors in.Nigeria work under terrible conditions financially and otherwise.

Worst part of it all, some of the people.went into.medicine for prestige, money or dictates of their family. There is no.passion. I interviewed a couple of them that work in some hospitals in FCT and all I could do was shake my head. I walked a.few through the algorithms of ACLS and you could see the astonishing and overwhelmed looks in their faces. It was then that it finally dawned on me why politicians run to foreign countries for medical check. I don't want to go into the gory details of what I saw when I visited UNTH.

FemiFaniKayode:


what time Chelsea dey play PSG?

esperiense:
Some Nigerians are so experienced in pouring out jargons from their blocked head. In a country where President is clueless, Fayose is a governor, Doyin Okupe is involved in public affairs, Obanikoro is just appointed a minister,and Bode George receives a medal, and so on and so forth. U opened yo dirty mouth and start pouring out trash and you want your doctors to be a Ben Carson. Afterall joblessness is a disease

bendeniceguy:
20.45 naija and european time

idu1:
Bushdoc9919 why do you reply that old woman .
She's soiling the effort of our health professionals because she was opportuned to work in an american village primary health center.

What do u want us to do now when we ve bullet and emergency attention?

Na yeye dey worry you@OP!!!

bendeniceguy:
Ol boy, make all of una watch match na!!! Congo 0 Nigeria 2 CAF u20 live. Frontpage things normally

livelinkhttp://www.lc2international.tv/

FemiFaniKayode:


na group stage match?

babyosisi:


Doctors in Nigeria are generally heartless
They care nothing about their patients,human lives mean nothing to them and their nurses
The reception has a standing order not to let anyone without the stipulated thousands get past the outpatient department no matter how sick
All they are after is how much they milk from the ignorant helpless citizens
A nigerian doctor will keep a patient for weeks and pour infusion ( drip) down their arms endlessly without a diagnosis
Diagnosing your illness is not a priority,many don't care about that,they are after the payment of the bills
That's why a patient with a treatable ailment will walk in with both legs and leave in a casket
Butchers many of them

In all my years living and working in the USA I have never heard of a single woman I know or a woman known by anyone I know die while having a baby but in Nigeria it's a minute by minute occurrence.
People with normal uncomplicated pregnancies die daily at childbirth in nigerian hospitals due to negligence and malpractice and the families have no recourse.


Ever wonder why these folks don't let patients in on what is ailing them?
Ever wonder why they scratch off the names on the medication bottles they give you?
Ever wonder why they get angry when a concerned doctor calls to chat about a patient in their care and course of treatment?

The same corruption,heartlessness and greed that has permeated every sector of Nigeria is also rife in the hospitals
Why should anyone be surprised?
I think you are stereotyped in thinking.... how can you just say all Nigerian Doctors... I am really disappointed in your way of thinking... I thought you were more intelligent than this

InvertedHammer:
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Doctors in.Nigeria work under terrible conditions financially and otherwise.

Worst part of it all, some of the people.went into.medicine for prestige, money or dictates of their family. There is no.passion. I interviewed a couple of them that work in some hospitals in FCT and all I could do was shake my head. I walked a.few through the algorithms of ACLS and you could see the astonishing and overwhelmed looks in their faces. It was then that it finally dawned on me why politicians run to foreign countries for medical check. I don't want to go into the gory details of what I saw when I visited UNTH.

FemiFaniKayode:


where i fit stream am online

babyosisi:


Doctors in Nigeria are generally heartless
They care nothing about their patients,human lives mean nothing to them and their nurses
The reception has a standing order not to let anyone without the stipulated thousands get past the outpatient department no matter how sick
All they are after is how much they milk from the ignorant helpless citizens
A nigerian doctor will keep a patient for weeks and pour infusion ( drip) down their arms endlessly without a diagnosis
Diagnosing your illness is not a priority,many don't care about that,they are after the payment of the bills
That's why a patient with a treatable ailment will walk in with both legs and leave in a casket
Butchers many of them

In all my years living and working in the USA I have never heard of a single woman I know or a woman known by anyone I know die while having a baby but in Nigeria it's a minute by minute occurrence.
People with normal uncomplicated pregnancies die daily at childbirth in nigerian hospitals due to negligence and malpractice and the families have no recourse.


Ever wonder why these folks don't let patients in on what is ailing them?
Ever wonder why they scratch off the names on the medication bottles they give you?
Ever wonder why they get angry when a concerned doctor calls to chat about a patient in their care and course of treatment?

The same corruption,heartlessness and greed that has permeated every sector of Nigeria is also rife in the hospitals
Why should anyone be surprised?ok
I think you are stereotyped in thinking.... how can you just say all Nigerian Doctors... I am really disappointed in your way of thinking... I thought you were more intelligent than this

FemiFaniKayode:


where i fit stream am online

bendeniceguy:
http://www.lc2international.tv/

tchiwinnie:
hhmm, i really wonder d purpose of this thread. Nt everything u ve said s true. Its nt news dat nigeria health system lacks adequate funding. Yet drs still try to work under dese adverse conditions. Bushdoc addressed most of d points u raised well.
Ur posts are very disappointing coming frm a person like u. U wont talk of d ignorance factor dat leads to late presentation in nig hospitals. Patients visit native drs and prayer houses b4 presenting to d hospital and u expect d dr to perform a magic ba?ok.
If d facts in all ur posts were all true, then there wont b any living being in nig.
U wont talk of d successfl ivfs dat are going on in nigerian hospitals, or u havent heard of any? Thankfully there s a thread in Nl whr u can check it out.
Biko all dese hatefl comments abt d nig dr are nt necessary. The system s bad, yess, bt drs in nig re trying. I dont think u ll b able to practise in d condition under wch dese drs practise.

bushdoc9919:


Not all of them...but some of them.

I once worked in a rural hospital(private)...where the doc in charge(my boss) removed a bullet from the thigh of a patient. Saved it for the police, who came in shortly after the op(My boss and the local police were on good terms).



Which is why we need to have an Emergency Medicine Residency Programme in this country....and why we need to train more trauma surgeons, and build more teaching-level hospitals. And it starts with increasing funding for health.



Again, more reason why funding for health has to be increased. And we probably need more public private facilities. Maybe on a Build-Operate-Transfer policy..



Not exactly. Sometimes the Police accompanies the patient, sometimes, they are just a call away. And sometimes....a police report is necessary.



Depends. Many Nigerian teaching hospitals can handle multiply injured patients well. Where the problem starts is how the patients get to the hospital(no effective ambulance and paramedic service which means that patients are transported in private vehicles...wrongly)..and whether the patients can afford care.Even at govt subsidized prices....many patients cannot afford care.




I work at an average Nigerian hospital....and have worked in rural medicine....and I have treated many more cases than just Malaria and appendicitis. I have treated botched abortions(not the most pleasant bit of my career), diabetics, hypertensives, respiratory illnesses, HIV AIDS illnesses, diarrhea, cholera, skin diseases....viral, fungal and bacterial, the odd case of chicken pox, and many other conditions. And even working at hospitals in the rural areas that were not ''standard''.



Yes....largely because....zero facilities. And as someone has said here earlier elsewhere...the way we train docs in this country needs to be reformed syllabus wise.

LaRoyalHighness:
But is the op lying?

Oildichotomy:
The OP just made it look as if everybody in Nigeria is dead or dying

Hello, sorry to burst your bubble, Nigeria is ever growing population-wise

These are some of the few posts that just make me unapologetically NIGERIAN.
YOU ridicule and prejudice your country just because you feeding off food stamps in Texas
What have you done to savage the situation?

I am just tempted not to call you a coward

Oildichotomy:
The OP just made it look as if everybody in Nigeria is dead or dying

Hello, sorry to burst your bubble, Nigeria is ever growing population-wise

These are some of the few posts that just make me unapologetically NIGERIAN.
YOU ridicule and prejudice your country just because you feeding off food stamps in Texas
What have you done to savage the situation?

I am just tempted not to call you a coward

bendeniceguy:
Yes na but a win today will qualify the flying eagles for the FIFA u20 world cup