Facebook user, Adekemi Oridupa, shared her experience with some nurses
and a doctor at th Ebute Metta Health centre yesterday night. She
accused them of being lackadaisical to their duties and called for them
to be punished. She wrote
"I had a terrible experience this dawn (4th sept 2016 @12:45am) at the
Ebute Metta Health centre on cemetery street! I took my little nephew
there as a result of severe vomiting (over 6 times) and dehydration with
all his eyes sucked in and his facial bones were already protruding and
his thighs were seriously paining him as he has lost too much fluid and
he was seriously weak.
On
getting there i tried talking to one of the two nurses on duty and she
just sat there staring at me like i was talking to a statue then the
other nurse intervened and asked some questions then d first nurse
lazily got up to call the doctor who was sleeping at that time. It was
already 20mins and he wasn't coming out then when i raised my voice and
the nurses were even raining insults saying i should have taken him to a
private hospital instead, then Dr. Olatunji finally came out. He wrote a
prescription of only Maxolone ( for vomiting) and paracetamol so i
asked him if he wont give my nephew any infusion (drip) as he was
totally dehydrated he didn't answer and the nurse said i shouldn't teach
him his job. He now later said they wont be able to manage my brother
there and that they will have to refer so i said even if you will refer,
wont you at least rehydrate him just to make him a bit strong and also
stop the pains in his thighs, he said theres nothing else he can do.Dr
olatunji then referred us to Randle General hosp. So we had to leave the
hosp for our house at about 1:40 am thinking the drug they gave will
surpress the vomiting but it became worse and about 5am, i rushed him to
randle where they took the case as a serious medical emergency because
he was almost going! Doctors and nurses are supposed to save people but
some are killing people everyday! The staffs on night duty at the
Ebute-Metta Health centre from 3rd September to 4th september 2016 must
not go unpunished!".
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