Dear LIB Readers - Before We Exonerate Our Nigerian Doctors


This is a response to the last doctor's write up (read here)
I agree to some extend the points made in the letter from the last doctor but then i keep asking them this question "Why take up a job without an enabling environment" would they have taken up these jobs if they were very hazardous to their own health, am sure a Zookeeper wont go near a lion without his protective gears blaming that on his employers, except if he is on a suicide mission.
If someone is offering you a job and all necessary things are not in place, feel free to reject such job and report such hospital to a medical board. We keep blaming the government for everything but refused to check ourselves too.

On the other hand, i wont blame the government for a doctor's incompetence:
  •  I lost my mum to lungs cancer because a nigerian doctor was treating  asthma, we ended up flying her out to the UK when there was no improvement, it was already too late because the cancer had spread to other parts of her body. i guess same thing happened to Gani Fawehinmi, they call it Late Detection or Wrong Diagnosis. K1 D Ultimate was lucky, he went to canada on time
  • A friend who is a Mechanical Engineer practically turned the consultant to the doctor that was supposed to deliver his wife of their first child, all thanks to the internet.
  • I was in a general hospital visiting a sick friend when a patient passed out and the doctor attending to him couldnt bring herself to sign his death certificate, first time she will witness someone die.
  • A doctor treated me for malaria for 2weeks when i actually have Typhoid Fever, i insisted on running a test because he was too sure its just malaria. and i could go on and on.
The bottomline is, things are so bad in this country that professionals now come all out with pride to defend rubbish, putting the blames on the government, permit me to ask the last doctor this question "would you operate on your mother, father, wife or children using a phone torchlight". The battle for survival is our priority in this country and as such makes us take up nonsense jobs and when it backfires,  we are always quick to blame it on the government.
When you have a job that has to do with people's lives,  stop reasoning like a road side mechanic.
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