Most of the victims, who are nursing what medical doctors describe as third degree burns and major wounds, are worried because their families cannot afford to buy drugs.
The government of Plateau State and the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Sani Sidi , have said the government will foot the medical bills of the victims.
No fewer than 118 people died in the explosions, which occurred in a crowded market. Many were injured.
The relation of a driver, who is on admission at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), Sebastine Abu, said: “This injury at the level of intensive care unit is too expensive that no member of the family can afford. The doctor prescribed drugs the patient needs to take for 13 days to help him recover on time. Each of the drugs costs N2,500.
He said the family borrowed money to get five days supply.
“Feeding is another problem;” he said, adding: “But we hear on government radio that government is footing medical bill. How, when? At the moment, these victims need drugs to survive and government is nowhere to be found.”
Another relation of a patient, Audu Daman, said: “Government is only making propaganda with claims to foot the medical bills of the victims. We are asked to buy drugs everyday. We have spent close to N20,000 and we are already exhausted. We have been borrowing money for feeding and drugs. This is the time the victims need government most so as to recover fast, but we can’t see them. We keep hearing on radio that government has accepted to foot the bill but right now many victims may die due to lack of drugs in the hospitals.”
Families are in danger of losing their loved ones due to high cost of treatment. They are pleading with the government to assist them. Hamza Aliyu, one of them, said: “The nature of injuries of these victims is not what any family can bear; it requires government intervention as prompt as possible.”
Only one Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Neighbour to Neighbour Initiative, has donated relief materials to victims of the blasts.
A director of the NGO, Hajiya Fatima Salihu Lemo, presenting the relief materials to the state government in Jos yesterday said: “This is our own little way of showing concern to victims of the blast.”
The NGO donated food items, such as maize, millet, rice, sugar, Indomie. There were also toiletries, beverages and other items.
Recieving the items on behalf of the government, Commissioner for Enviroment Sylvanus Dangtoe assured the NGO that the items would be delivered to the right people. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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What is wrong with my country?!
ReplyDeleteWhy does not nothing work here?!
There should have been an arrangement between NEMA and Federal hospitals to cater to victims of bombings anywhere in the country for free by now including feeding.
We are not a philanthropic people that's why we still hear of Nigeria receiving foreign aid for 'the giant of africa'.
Please let's step up, mobilize ourselves for chnage, country people and government.
Biko!
The so called Gov Jang he's not an human being and he's the course of every turmoil in plateau state sooner or later he will ripe what he show.
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