David Umahi, the senate deputy majority leader, says he lost
his father due to negligence at a private hospital.
Umahi spoke on Monday on the floor of the upper legislative
chamber while posing a question to Mairiga Mahmud, a ministerial nominee from
Kano, who was being screened for confirmation.
Umahi, who did not disclose the name of the hospital, said
his father died at the medical facility because he was left unattended to.
“I’m very concerned about a particular programme in the
health sector. This programme is a situation that the medical association has
allowed,” he said.
“It’s a situation where you will be a medical doctor in a
public institution and you also have your private clinic. There will be a
competing interest.
“I have a very bad experience of this. My father had surgery
in Enugu and he was seen by a very good surgeon who did a wonderful work and
was made alive.
“When the same problem came out again, he went back to the
same hospital. The consultant told him to rather come to his clinic.
“Being satisfied with the work of that consultant, he went
to his clinic and the consultant did a beautiful work and then put an infusion
and went home.
“In the night, there was a reverse — blood was coming into
the infusion rather than the water going into the body.”
Umahi said there was nobody to attend to his father, adding
that both the doctor and nurses were unavailable.
“These clinics, most of the time, they have a very slim
number of workers and so you find out that there is very competing interests,”
he said.
“My father died
because of the negligence of that private hospital.”
Umahi said when he was governor of Ebonyi, he implemented a
policy barring doctors working in government hospitals from operating private
medical facilities to avoid a conflict of interest.
He said urgent measures must be put in place to tackle
medical negligence in hospitals.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio recounted a similar
experience last Friday.
Akpabio said his grandchild died of medical neglect in a
government hospital because he was left unattended to by medical personnel on
duty.
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