According to Kemi, a freelancer report that:
Edo State chapter of Nigerian Medical
Association, NMA, has raised the alarm over
what it described as the sorry state of health
facilities in the state, regretting that doctors are
using candles in hospital wards rather than
electricity.
It, therefore, urged the state government to
revamp health care facilities in the state to stop
unnecessary deaths in hospitals. The state
chairman of NMA, Dr Emmanuel Osaigbovo,
who raised the alarm while briefing journalists
in Benin City, urged the state government to
declare state of emergency in the health sector.
He said: “Today, there is hardly any functional
ward that is befitting for the people to recover
from their infirmities. The wards are dilapidated
and ironically pose a major health risk to those
who are being cared for and those who render
services therein. “In some of these obsolete
facilities, doctors in their usual zeal to work
resort to the use of candles and personal
rechargeable lanterns when the authorities fail
to provide basic electricity.
The buildings are falling apart in their numbers
due to lack of maintenance. “We seriously hope
that there is no collapse of one of those
buildings on people who have come to the
hospital to get better or on those who have
come there to make people feel better. There is
no greater catastrophe than that.
“The theatres and laboratories are at best
skeletal in the services they render due to lack
of basic equipment and consumables. Patients
have to seek help in peripheral facilities and
most times fall into the hands of quacks.”
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