Prioritizing The Poor Medical Services In My City

in Hive Learners4 months ago

I'm don't think I'm the best person to share this about my city since I've been blessed enough not to visit the hospital as often as some do. But for the few times I've had to visit a government owned hospital (Federal hospital) in my state and one other state, I've learned how poor the services are and how concerning it should be for the government.

It's sad that this notice have been there for as long as I can remember but very little or nothing is done to make things better in this aspect, really sad.

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It would be unbelievable that the Government isn't aware of this issue that has been there but it is even more unbelievable that they plan to do nothing about it considering the threats it is putting on the citizens especially to their health and money.

If I am correct, the federal hospitals were introduced to reduce hospital fees for sick citizens but somehow people prefer to spend so much in private hospitals to paying less in federal hospitals. The reason is quite obvious, services in these hospitals are so bad and even life threatening if I could use that word.

It's a great idea to provide hospitals for citizens to pay less but shouldn't the services be put into consideration so citizens can pay for getting better rather than falling even more sick? The record of sick people and even the dead ones in federal hospitals according to my knowledge is so much that it is concerning but nothing seem to be done about it.

My most recent experience in a federal hospital is one I'll not forget in a long time. I was obviously in pain and need any tiny bit of attention but then, there was the rank, connection and level keeping the doctors from me in the hospital.

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It's in federal hospitals you'll find the rich patients getting treated first, the poor patients getting less attention or less treatments because the medical workers know they won't pay well after all. It's even more sad to see patients be on queue to get treated, I think this can be sorted out easily if more medical personnels are employed.

I can't even start ranting on about the unhealthy environment a lot of these hospitals have become to patients whether healthy or sick. The mosquito bites, the unclean restrooms, the too close proximity of trash place to a patient room and a lot of other unhealthy settings are found in these hospitals.

One thing I've learnt more from studying about the human health, the environment plays a big role in getting a sick person to be healthy even more than the drugs or medical treatment would. This is why I believe every hospital should be situated in a healthy environment.

The Government can put an end to these problems and provide better medical services to her citizens but then, we can only hope and pray that such a time would come. The federal hospitals should function for what they were made for and not force citizens choose to spend more in private hospitals instead.

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These things that you wrote about are very true and real. It's as if the health workers are doing way lesser work because the cost of treatment is also less.

But another side of the story is that some of these doctors and nurses in the government hospitals are not well paid and not considered important. Some of these doctors have connection with private hospitals where they earn better money. The ones without good connection renain just in the government owned hospitals and many of them become less passionate, caring, etc because they are not paid well.

Some other government owned hospitals are not receiving the full support they need to have well-trained health workers, adequate and fastest equipment and facilities. I've been to a government owned hospital and after prescription of drugs, I was told to go get from any other pharmacy because they are out of drugs. ( rumour has it that the ones in charge of the drugs sold to private hospitals to make more profit)

There are some issues where the government is not the only one at fault, the people also might be the problem.

The Government has a lot to do if they want these hospitals to function as they should, paying the medical workers well is a start and providing better working equipments is another.

True, been faithful to payment is the first step.

You said it all. The worst is eye clinic. I visited the eye clinic three consecutive times until I gave up and resorted to using private. They will tell you only one Doctor is available and he is not seeing more than 15 patients. Meanwhile we are more than 60 patients. They will reschedule for another date, same thing will happen. Meanwhile when you go to private, it is still the Doctors who are not available in the public hospitals that are the ones very available in private. May God help us.

How are you though? ♥️♥️

Lol that's really worse, the doctors get better paymemt in the private hospitals that's why 😂

I've been good ma'am, what about you and your family?

We are good, thank God.

It's so bad eeeeh.
The attitude of staffs as if they were employed on loan is always choking. The doctors are not always around too, maybe they're around but hidden in the rich people's sector.

May we not have reasons to be admitted in the hospital. Amen

That's just the prayer o
We won't have need of them if we are healthy enough to not visit them 🥲

Federal hospitals have become a place to go if you're looking for insults and frustrations... So sad

Ahhh I didn't even mention that, it's really sad 🤦‍♀️

This is bad; the government should take notice of citizens' medical facilities. Medical rights are one of the basic rights of each citizen. I hope poor medical facilities will be better with time and tide soon. I pray you will experience good next time.

I hope so too, the experiences there is really too bad and needs urgent attention.

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