All is not well at the General hospital in Kuje area council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja as the hospital, for a couple of weeks now, has no electricity and water.
Information reaching us at Greenbarge Reporters said that medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, laboratory personnel now attend to patients without water to clean up. Even the patients too have no water to take care of essential needs and some of them are resorting to engaging water vendors to buy water in jerricans from outside the hospital premises.
“We are seriously facing general infections and other outbreaks as a result of unclean and smelly bodies and environment,” a laboratory attendant lamented.
It was learnt that the last time the hospital enjoyed electricity was the middle of March this year, and that the small generating plant is put on only when surgery is being carried out in the theatre.
It was learnt that once it is the night, the hospital is thrown into total darkness with staff and patients resorting to using local torchlight.
Efforts by our reporter to talk to the Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Udofiah Paskal failed because he was said to have traveled out of Abuja to attend a Conference somewhere.
Top officers would not speak to newsman, though they were mumbling complaints about the poor condition of the hospital.
One of the medical officers was overheard saying that the situation is quite unfortunate, and asked: “what exactly is happening. We held a session of meeting with MD (Medical Director) of the hospital nearly three weeks ago and we could not reach a reasonable conclusion. It’s obvious we were just called out to be informed of management intention and not to proffer solutions to the menace of some ugly trend we are faced with in the hospital.”
This was even as another top officer complained bitterly about the poor condition of the hospital, “where we attend to about 150 Antenatal patients every week? Where we perform surgery on daily bases without minding where to keep the patients even when there are no bed spaces? In the same hospital where they can discharge two day post operative patients or transfer a post operative woman and her baby to female or male ward in order to perform another surgery not minding the wellbeing of the staffs and patients. Can someone just ask me where all these money are entering? Nobody cares about our wellbeing, all they care about is doing surgeries and attending to multitudes Antenatal cases. Even all the sisters hospital in the FCT don’t have the numbers of Antenatal patients we have. Are we meant to be suffering on duty? Working in an unconducive environment and expecting the best.”
“Fellow colleagues, let’s come together and fight for our right. Enough of all these please.”