A Call on Government to Fight Bad Medical Practice and Stop Doctors From abandoning Clinics to Unprofessional Nurses

FocalPoint Reports
 Weekend file

A Call on Government to Fight Bad Medical Practice and Stop Doctors From abandoning Clinics to Unprofessional Nurses


 _By Ezekiel Kagbala ( FPR)_

The attention of FocalPoint Reports was drawn to some unethical medical practices in some medical firms in Nigeria with a keen focus on Delta State over the Weekend.

Some Doctors are embroiled in unprofessional conduct of abandoning their clinics to unlicenced and illicitly trained nurses popularly called auxiliary nurses who to posed as doctors and obtain consultation fees (cards) to gullible medical attention seekers, this unfortunate act is eroding the practice of patients visiting a medical facility to consult a doctor directly after a  documentation to a primitive culture of medical service by proxy. The so called auxiliary nurses will urge the Cliant to pay for card then a doctor will be called upon .

It is a bad practice to pay for consultation when a doctor is not on seat to attend to the patient, some time the patient will wait while the clinic operators search for a doctor amongst those doctors who go from one clinics to the other.

It is like a pandemic eating deep into the the fabrics of the society, Auxiliary nurse attitude and service to a patient are grossly deficient with a disposition of quackery. Bad enough some clinic operators are desperate for a consultation fees, and money without a doctor or medical officer on seat.

Sand enough We there are stories of friends or family members who have gone into some hospital for routine procedures or for minor medical conditions, and the next you hear is that they have sadly passed away at the hospital.

Bad medical practices are thrives due to permissive attitude and unpleasant issues which plague the health sector in Nigeria – underfunded and under-staffed government hospitals, unpaid doctors, intermittent power supply,…the list is probably endless. Those are facts which may have encouraged bad medical practices in the country.

Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers treat millions of Nigerians every day, either privately or in the public hospitals. Unfortunately, when you or a loved one has suffered a complication due to medical error, the situation can turn bad pretty quickly.

Many Nigerians, have received poor substandard treatment from a doctor, nurse, dentist and medical professional in a helpless state. some bad scenarios that we have unfortunately observed is when people go into the hospital and are misdiagnosed, or when they are diagnosed properly but given the wrong medication, or when they are operated on and foreign objects are left in the body of patient…the list is endless. The government at all level should direct ministry of health to monitor and short down substandard medical outfits.

 The government should also prefer solution to end quackery in the name of low cost medical services. Doctors working with government or public clinics should not operate a private clinics or hospital. The use of Auxiliary nurses in the clinics should be ban and replaced with trained health assistants.

There are no auxiliary doctors why auxiliary nurses? Bad medical practice must be stopped government at all level should take action against bad medical practice and save Nigerians.