I heard something unbelievable some days back concerning Naija Doctors.....
It is alleged that Doctors fees have gone up now in Nigeria because they have become scarce and the ones who chose to stay are now VERY EXPENSIVE....
Does anyone have anything to say concerning this? Have the Doctors in your hospitals become more expensive or have they all taken Jobs abroad?
One more question.. Are Doctors now scarce in Nigeria?
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Consultants have left oh nah only house officers remain
ReplyDeleteNawa oooo
DeleteStop the infantile lies
DeleteI think consultant are even the ones around. Like my in-law, he is a consultant in teaching hospital and also has his own hospital. He can't leave na, when the money he makes from both place is higher than what Saudi pays consultant. A consultant rarely leaves unless he doesn't have a job yet
DeleteNot to my knowledge o. I work in a hospital in Abuja and our doctors fees didn’t increase.
DeleteAll the good hands (excellent doctors) have left/are still leaving Nigeria
ReplyDeleteWhat is scarce in Nigeria is good practice.
ReplyDeletePlease take my advice;
1. On antenatal visits, make sure you have a chaperone or at least a nurse with a doctor.
2. In private hospitals, if you must attend, make sure any surgery that can be done with local anesthesia (the one you do not need to sleep)
is used instead.
3. Go to teaching or specialist general hospitals instead of private ones. You will wait, yes, but you will
get better standard treatment. You will be seen by a group of doctors
and there is always that one sane person in their midst.
4. Let a female doctor see you if you are female for intimate examinations.
That is if there are female doctors there.
Please respect them and don't call them "nurses" 😂 Most are usually more
thorough and genuine.
5. Take the doctors advice seriously but trust God for your healing.
Reject being cornered to their private hospitals.
do not shed innocent blood.
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Your last line just spoil everything wey you write
Delete@15:35
DeleteSo you expect her to write "shed innocent blood?" Sometimes, ask yourself, am I working for God or for the devil?
Really?? I work in a private hospital and our doctors are excellent. The nursing care is excellent as well. It’s expensive but the care is excellent. Same doctors that work in teaching hospitals work in private hospitals.
Delete@16:02
DeleteI worked in a private hospital too and I know that you can give "excellent substandard" treatments to maximize profits.
A doctor working in teaching hospital once packed unsterile needles and catheter to private hospital to use it on patients.
His colleagues bailed him out when police caught him with his loot in his boot. Case closed.
Some private hospitals book patients with fever and abdominal pain for surgeries and take off their appendix while giving them medications to
take care of the fever. Some just make ordinary skin incisions and close. And you know the bill for such surgeries. Let me not write some more.
When I went for my first Antenatal in a french country,it was a female nurse that examined me and she fondled my breast and said it was part of Antenatal process,hmmmmm it was later I asked other nursing mothers and they said it not right
Delete17:17 say what!!!😳😳😳
DeleteThat's 'HUMAN EVIL ' not a human being!
Doctors that should save lives are the ones endangering patients' lives.
Where would they take the money to when they pass on?
@17:27
DeleteBreast examination is part of routine medical examination. They are looking for breast lumps.
It wasn't "fondling." It is examining the four quadrants of the breasts.
Scary stuff
DeleteI want to believe those that their clinics are doing in well in Nigeria are still here
ReplyDeleteCan you blame them?
ReplyDeleteI guess we should. If medical schools charge the appropriate fees. More than 98% of them wouldn't have been doctors today. We know what their mates paid for medical schools in the United States and Uk. The government should ensure all medical students agree to work for 10-15 years before admitting them into our subsidized medical schools. For those condemning government, please know if government stop subsiding health care tens of millions of the mass of our people will suffer and probably die. They are comparing nations that budget above 700 billion dollars to about 2 trillion dollars yearly to Nigeria that budgets less than 10 billion dollars yearly. Saudi Arabia sells more than 4 million barrels of crude everyday, while Nigeria sells 1.4 million barrels per day. Saudi stopped subsiding fuel last year, while Nigeria is still subsiding fuel and electricity.
DeleteAlex please park well..
DeleteDoes the government act serious for anyone to take them seriously..
Let's take the army for instance, after all the soldiers that have died and are still dying, with theirs wives becoming widows and children becoming orphans with lacks, the best thing your government think of doing is to 'forgive' the terrorists that caused these pain..
Now if you were in the military and you get a better offer, would you stay back to serve your country
Medical school is cheap. Compare minimum wage of Nigeria to that of the countries wer med school is expensive.Is it still so cheap? In fact everybody that schooled in Nigeria should sign to work for the 15 years u want because school is cheap for everyone here like u said
DeleteAlexander in some countries, medical students do not pay tuition fees.
DeleteWhy do Senators and HoR members earn such a huge pay with benefits while medical professionals are paid peanuts? Is that not MISPLACED 'SUBSIDY'?
How come Nigeria did not save and invest wisely earnings from oil in the 70s and the Gulf Oil Windfall?
Why can't Nigeria maximize oil production per day or diversify the economy?
No reason is good enough to keep the citizens of such a naturally blessed country in poverty due to greed and corruption of the political leaders.
@ALEXANDER...It's one thing to mandate medical graduates to work in Nigeria because because people choose to believe it was subsidized.
DeleteSubsidized you say and the medical schools are still below par where infrastructure is concerned...subsidy that a selected few have carted away...anyway that's story for another day.
We all want the medical graduates to stay back and work in a health system that those running it a happy to see it fail just to enrich themselves.
A health system that will leave the medical doctors below standard compared to their peers elsewhere if the doctors do not put in more than extra work.
I know of consultants that got scholarship to go study in different countries and come back to Nigeria Nad make impact. They are back but no facilities to render what they learnt...one can't even practice the cardiothoracic surgeries he learnt in the USA...the knowledge gained is stagnant because he has no infrastructure to use that knowledge on patients...he is still in Nigeria and he is a consultant.
Another got back and had to go into the Airforce...the hospitals do not have the facilities to make use of the knowledge gained.
If the health system is fair people will stay behind and work.
I personally have worked in settings in Nigeria and lost patients due to irregularities as small as no electric power, no up to date machineries that can release results in earliest time for a patient to go infor surgery...jeez the complaints are just so many...and these complaints starts with basic amenities like power to run the tiniest machines for efficiency, good road and a functioning response system that conveys patients online to the hospitals so they can access care easily...all these downsides are frustrating and I know the effect in had on my mental health seeing patients die over something that clearly has even been subsidized or even awarded as a contract to someone who decided to eat the funds and enrich themselves...
Forcing doctors to work for 10 to 15years in a setting that is way below standard won't change the plight of those dependent on the health system rather what we will have are disgruntled doctors who are behind where their contemporaries in other countries are concerned
Orela please school him.
Delete10-15 years indeed.
In a country where the government does not provide something as basic as running water in hospitals even in this pandemic era.
Orela dimples 😘❤️ You odeshi for here o longest time bv
DeleteWhat these general hospital do nowadays is to refer their patient to their private hospital for test,as if there is no laboratory in the general hospital.
ReplyDeleteI can't laugh... ordinary malaria, u will be asked to pay #20k upward..if you Kan sleep for bed for like 2days then u go know watsup
ReplyDeleteMe sef no know oo,I just know it's almost impossible to go to a federal hospital(even if you go early morning)and be able to see a doctor within two/three hours. Before doctors go even come work sef you don sit-down tire😥😥.
ReplyDeleteDoctors are always there at the time specified by the management of the hospitals. Better to spend the whole day in the federal hospitals than spend 5 mins in most private hospitals
DeleteAlexander stop spaming this post!!!
DeleteThe staff in tertiary and secondary institutions are doing a lot to be honest, but they have a lot of things they can improve on to be honest.
I work within the hospital space so I speak from experience.
Stella, doctors/admin fees have not gone up in most places (at least in government owned facilities). Even the private hospitals can't jack up their prices significantly because who go pay? The population's purchasing power has drastically reduced so if you charge patients exorbitantly in these private hospitals ehn, patients will tell you they're going home o. As per, where dem wan see money? A lot of those small private hospitals are just 'roughing' it so they don't go out of business. Only exception are the elite private hospitals where patients can comfortable afford to pay for a good number of their services.
Dainty, you know Stella likes hearing bad news about the country, please tell her it has gone up o.
DeleteTrue @ DaintyT.
DeleteIt's good to always say it as it is
I had to discharged myself when I thought of the bill, very sad
ReplyDeleteThank God for alternative Herbal treatments. Very effective with little or no cost
ReplyDeleteTaking atleast a glass of water first thing every morning has been nothing short of awesome. A trial will convince you
ReplyDeleteI don't use private hospitals, I haven't used any for over 21 years. Consultancy fees are are relatively cheap in teaching hospitals and state specialist hospitals where they have the best doctors. I pay 1000 each to see my two consultants and when I go to the general practice clinic in UBTH. But in the surgical emergency clinic it's 6,000. Over the years I have made friends with consultants and registrars, now that they are on strike, I call any of them if anyone within my family needs care. Why teaching hospital, is it because it's cheap, subsidized by government? No, I realised there are really no good private hospitals in Benin city in the late nineties. Moreover, when private hospitals have tried their best, sometimes when they exhausted the families of patients financially they refer the patients to teaching hospitals, central and national hospitals. Most private hospitals in Benin city are owned by general practitioners who couldn't secure residency programs. Patients are also referred by state specialist hospitals and national hospitals to teaching hospitals. So, l felt since all cases may eventually end up in UBTH, make I dey take treatment for there.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder your mouth is running, you've been receiving medical care with no stress that's why you can type so callously without being sensitive to what is happening to Doctors in Nigeria.
DeleteAll these countries poaching doctors and other health professionals. It's sick how they prey on low and middle income countries. The impact will show itself in twenty years.
ReplyDeleteWe can't blame them.
ReplyDeleteMedicare is very expensive now. Na person wey need healthcare sabi every
ReplyDeleteYou can all maintain your health by intermittent fasting eat twice a day more fruits and veg
ReplyDeleteThank you. I should start that. And eat less junk. I will pray for Grace.
DeleteThank you Lord for good health u have blessed my family with, I definitely do not take it for granted🙏🙏
ReplyDeleteMy pregnant friend was ill, fever and tiredness. She went to the hospital and the dr demanded for a covid test . 25,000 naira was paid for the test. It came out positive .
ReplyDeleteNext thing was a deposit of 350,000 was required before treatment will start .
The dr was asked to start and payment will be made later that day after a 100k has being paid o! Dr no gree.
Thank God she is well now.
Doc Anun still dey now
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Delete😂😂😂😂shey you no like your sef.
DeleteAnon 16.15 lol at Dr Anu
DeleteOrela welcome I'm happy to read your comment. It has been a while
DeleteMay God have mercy on us in this country
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