Doctors are not only supposed to be people who treat others to make them feel better. Doctors are life savers, they are caregivers, they are health givers if there is a word like that.
Doctors are meant to be caring and always wanting to make sure they save lives. Sadly, I’ve seen cases where doctors always want some money before they can begin to treat an emergency patient. It’s not bad and I’m not complaining but I always feel they should at least help them with a form of first aid. I would not like to speak for every part of the world. I’d just speak for Nigeria. I’ve lived all my life here and I know how things are.
Even in general hospitals that belongs to the government, they always want money before they treat you. The government didn’t send them to do that but that’s the situation of things.
I’m not complaining but it may be bad for those who need immediate attention and there may be no money take care of them.
Today, I read a news on X, stating that doctors in Nigeria will now have to see a police report before treating gunshot or sharp object cases like machete and so on. How do you see this news? If you feel it isn’t bad, I agree with you but for a reasonable Nigerian, it is bad. Why did I say so? It’s bad because getting a police report here in Nigeria can be very stressful. Some of these policemen will even arrest you if you stress them too much. It can be very funny but it’s just the truth.
Basically everything in this country is stressful so getting that report is stressful too and you may spend more that hours before you get the police report but what happens to the patient? Will he or she lose her life?
Last November, my family and I got robbed. They shot at us and the gun almost hit my dad’s heart but we were safe. Let’s imagine if the gun had hit him and we were asked to bring a police report at the hospital, how do we do it? Just think about that and imagine so many people who must have lost their lives because of issues like this. It can be very unfair.
I’ve read stories about so many people who have lost their lives due to delay in police report and those doctors won’t even try to provide them a means of first aid if that’s the highest thing they could do at that moment.
I feel doctors are supposed to be life savers but why will they be so cruel to see someone who might lose his life any moment from that time and tell the person to provide a police report.
It’s bad. Now that I’ve explained the situation of things in Nigeria, do you support this motion that doctors have raised or are you against it?
Let me know in the comments section.
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