Nyok|8 August 2018
Mr Joseph Coco-Bassey, a Nigerian resident in Cross River State has narrated his ordeal at the mercies of what may be described as grossly dilapidated medical institutions in Cross River State where two public medical facilities, state-owned General Hospital Calabar(GHC) and federal-owned University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) could barely attend to his almost dying sibling in an emergency case NegroidHaven can report authoritatively.
Coco-Bassey who took to social media to register his profound disappointment revealed that during the late hours of Sunday 5th August his rushed his unidentified elder sister in an emergency medical case to General Hospital Calabar and UCTH, Calabar only to discover according to him that GHC had no medical doctor, while UCTH had no space to accommodate his ailing ward.
Coco-Bassey who described the situation as that of ineptitude advised that the Government of Cross River State should desist from what he referred to as window-dressing and do the needful.
His words, 'I decry the ineptitude in the health sector and institutions in Cross River State. I can't imagine that I would've lost my senior sister last night because of the decay in the system. The whole of General Hospital Calabar had no Doctor on duty, Teaching Hospital got no space for emergency but here are we taking of specialist hospitals on paper and painting a picture of near perfection.
'This ploy and tendencies is condemnable as it could happen to anyone. One of the major cardinal responsibility of government is to provide health care for its masses but my experience last night has shown me that the reverse is the case. I will plead that we tell ourselves the truth because this rain doesn't fall on one roof alone. Yesterday was mine, tomorrow could be some one else's. Lucky me that I was able to find a solution to my sister's issue and she is alive, some persons might not be that lucky.
'My humble appeal is let our government do what is required of them and stop window dressing. God bless us as I thank God for the life of my senior sister'.
BLOGGERTORIAL
If there's supposed to be a doctor(s) on call on the 5th of August, why were they not there? Where they at the usual privately-owned clinics or where they wrapped in the loving arms of their spouses especially as it may have rained that day? Hmmmm!
Are these not the set of doctors who will cry foul when they are either kidnapped by unknown persons or deprived their salaries or have their benefits equated with paramedical practitioners?
Isn't this a clear case of negligence. As for the atrocities going on at UCTH, that one may have pass redemption. It should be short down!
Nyok
Is the Blogger-in-Chief, Editor-in-Chief & Publisher of NegroidHaven
