Snakes Attack Doctors, Nurses, Patients In Anambra Hospital -Lawmaker
Anambra lawmakers yesterday at the first plenary raised alarm over what they described as the sorry state of hospitals as he said snake now chase Doctors, Nurses and Patients from hospital.
Dr.Timothy Ifedioramma of Njikoka 1 state constituency decried the melancholic state of the Enugwu-Ukwu general hospital in Njikoka local government area where he expressed great worry that snakes chased doctors and nurses on duty while attending to patients.
Ifedioramma noted that the hospital has been overgrown by bushes which he attributed to the remote reason why snakes and other reptiles took refuge in the hospital while medical staff scampered for safety on seeing them.
According to him, ” the government have really abandoned that hospital. Each time I confront the commissioner, they would say they want to upgrade it to a general hospital.
But we can’t wait until it is upgraded because of the way it is now, nothing works there. No lab and the mortuary got burnt in December last year; all of that is as a result of negligence and abandonment by government.
Rural women don’t have places to be delivered of their babies. Private hospitals are charging a whole lot and government hospitals are none existent. I want to get some of them into health insurance but at the same time, how can somebody who is sick in the village go to Awka or Onitsha to access medical care, when we have a very big structure like Enugwu-Ukwu general hospital. ”
Though he said the government may not be aware of the deplorable state of the hospitals there was a need to draw attention to the hospital for it to be equipped so that people at the grassroots can access the health facility.
Ifedioramma said ” as big as the hospital is, only the two doctors operate there. One will do daily, the other will do a night . There are no offices. The doctors sleep in their cars at night. I almost wept when I went there on oversight duty and saw patients sitting on the floor. It is not good. ”
Dr.Timothy Ifedioramma of Njikoka 1 state constituency decried the melancholic state of the Enugwu-Ukwu general hospital in Njikoka local government area where he expressed great worry that snakes chased doctors and nurses on duty while attending to patients.
Ifedioramma noted that the hospital has been overgrown by bushes which he attributed to the remote reason why snakes and other reptiles took refuge in the hospital while medical staff scampered for safety on seeing them.
According to him, ” the government have really abandoned that hospital. Each time I confront the commissioner, they would say they want to upgrade it to a general hospital.
But we can’t wait until it is upgraded because of the way it is now, nothing works there. No lab and the mortuary got burnt in December last year; all of that is as a result of negligence and abandonment by government.
Rural women don’t have places to be delivered of their babies. Private hospitals are charging a whole lot and government hospitals are none existent. I want to get some of them into health insurance but at the same time, how can somebody who is sick in the village go to Awka or Onitsha to access medical care, when we have a very big structure like Enugwu-Ukwu general hospital. ”
Though he said the government may not be aware of the deplorable state of the hospitals there was a need to draw attention to the hospital for it to be equipped so that people at the grassroots can access the health facility.
Ifedioramma said ” as big as the hospital is, only the two doctors operate there. One will do daily, the other will do a night . There are no offices. The doctors sleep in their cars at night. I almost wept when I went there on oversight duty and saw patients sitting on the floor. It is not good. ”
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