It's high time we give attention to our medical practitioners. A whole lot of atrocities, wickedness, carelessness, and negligence perpetrated by them is appalling. Sadly, they get away with all these.
If you've been to a Nigerian hospital, you probably must have had either one funny encounter or the other. There evil are shown either in not acting fast when they're supposed to, not showing concern at all, being rude, or being terribly heartless. If you've been current with news, you may have heard Chimamanda the Nigerian novelist accuse Lagos doctor for being responsible for her son's death
https://x.com/i/status/2010014207845224555 . You may have also heard the story of a woman who died because surgical scissor was abandoned in her belly after surgery
https://x.com/i/status/2011016448840257810 . These are just few of the issues that happened this year. People have been complaining seriously about our medical practitioners practitioners. Personally I have heard encounter with them. I took my cousin who visited me to hospital after he fell ill badly, the nurses were reluctant to attend to us, even when we finally met the doctor, he left to discuss with someone that already gained consciousness whereas my cousin was almost giving up in the hospital. I had to scream and threatened the doctor that if anything happens to my cousin that I will slam them with law suit before he started attending to us. I have also heard from friends how they lost their parents due to medical negligence and carelessness and I am sure anyone reading this may have had one or two encounters with them.
The funny thing is that these people, when they relocate abroad, they are nice, professional and tolerant with patients. I wonder why they act the way they do in Nigeria and get away with it. Our government is not even taking them serious. So sad.
Most medical doctors, more especially those working in the government hospitals don't take their work serious and even when their is emergency they seem not to border themselves. Life is precious and more precious than money. Nigeria doctors should take life very important and should remain their foremost interest before money, when you save somebody's life , either the person concerned or their people can look for the money before he or she can be discharged from the hospital, but if the doctor allows a patient to die , it is purely an act of wickedness.
Nigeria's medical doctors don't do well here in Nigeria, because it seems the government does not recognize their services, they are not well paid even their allowances are not paid as at when due, and these are people that are saving lives. Nigeria medical doctors are not always happy with the way the government is treating them and that is the more reason the government cannot even talk to them because the government is not playing their own part.
In abroad, doctors are well paid and the government knows the importance of doctors and other medical workers, so when Nigeria medical doctors go abroad, they work with all their mind and does not compromise with their work. When you misbehave the government will definitely withdraw your medicine certificate because as a medical doctor, you have no reason why you will not work well and deliver your job appropriately.
Nigeria federal government should learn how to treat medical doctors well, and ensure to pay them well so that they will work without grudges. They are their to save lives, so they should not be owed and government should value them.
