Mrs. Ifeanyi Chima was one of
Lagos delegates that attended a peace rally organised for women by the
First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, in Abuja on August 15, 2013.
The vehicle, which Chima and five other
women were travelling in, had an accident at Gwagwalada Road, near
Abuja, when they were going back to Lagos the following day.
Chima and four others were lucky to survive the accident, but sustained various degrees of injuries.
Their coordinator, Princess Abigael
Adisa, died in the crash. Until her death, Adisa was the Coordinator of
the Women for Change and Development Initiative in Ifako/Ijaye Local
Government Area of Lagos.
Chima, in an interview with Saturday PUNCH
at the Intensive Care Unit of Primus International Super Specialty
Hospital (popularly known as Indian Hospital) in Karu on Tuesday,
painted a sad picture of how she almost lost her limbs to the accident.
She called on Nigerian doctors to “sit up” like their foreign counterparts and improve on their relationship with patients.
She said, “I was involved in a fatal
accident along Gwagwalada Road after the Women rally in Abuja on our way
back to Lagos. We were six women and a driver in the vehicle; five of
us had injuries. Our coordinator died.
“Five of us were brought to this
hospital. I had a broken left arm and dislocation on my left leg. Mrs.
Titilayo Olorunda also had a broken leg. She has been taken to another
ward because she was formerly here (in the intensive care unit). But
after a surgery she was taken to her ward. When I had the injury, I had
some open wounds in my hands.”
Chima also gave a vivid account of her
experiences at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada
where, she said, a particular doctor exhibited poor attitude to
patients.
“At the specialist hospital in
Gwagwalada, instead of treating the skin, they covered it up. It was
when they brought us here (Indian Hospital) when I was complaining
bitterly that the doctor said they should open it. That was when they
started treating the place I had bruises. I had my surgical operation
some days ago.
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I wish you quick recovery.
ReplyDeleteu said it all.
ReplyDeleteAll Nigerians need to learn how to value one another, not only doctors. This is a syndrom that is living with Nigerians home and abroad. Similar attitude are displayed not only in hospitals, both at airports, every government oulets, even private companies at front desk, police stations etc. Every individual in Nigeria don't see themselves as a part of effort to establish good Nigeria. That is one of the reasons national from other countries don't respect Nigerians and Africans as a whole. Similar attitude among 90% of people in government, right from federal level, through state, and down to local government.
ReplyDeleteI wish u all good recovery but I don't know what u house wives are looking for ? From lagos to abuja to rally,is this not crazy? Is First Lady Nigeria president to orgernise rally? Haaa niaja
ReplyDeleteThank you for that clean and matured comment Anonymous 11:14am. You have said it all. I wish her a quick recovery. Being incapacitated by illness or injury can be demoralising especially when you don't have adequate care and support.
ReplyDeleteMrs Chima, if I were Mr Chima, I wld send U to Ur parents for 6months. I wonder why U wld travel from Lagos to Abua for one mumu Rally.
ReplyDeleteI hope U have learnt Ur lesson. Leave Politics for POLITICIANS & look after ur family instead of risking ur life for peanuts.
Is a pity that somebody would lost her life because of rally? so sad, may her soul rest in perfect peace
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