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The story I am about to share does not relate to reproductive health per say, instead it has to do with how health of people is given little regard, even by health workers who are meant to be the custodians of our health.
A woman walked into our house and greeted my grand dad, and they got talking. Later on I heard my dad consoling her on the loss of her 7 months old son, because he had heard the story from his children. Apparently, it happened that the boy took ill and was rushed to the hospital by his parents, only to be met by nurses who were meant to be on duty, but were busy been occupied with other things.
The boy was taken to the hospital, and the parents of the boy were made to wait for some minutes before attention was given to their ill child, they were told to make a deposit of five thousand before the doctor was to come attend to them. Eventually, when the money was paid to the hospital, the doctor on duty also made sure he took his own time, but finally when he came to see the sick child, he took his temperature which was at 40 degrees. The child was admitted and put on drips. Some hours passed and the drip was almost empty, and the woman said she acted on instinct and went out to call the nurse to come in and check on the child and if need be, put on another drip for him. She then told my father that she met the nurse and told her, but the nurse said that she was eating, and not after she was through will she check on the child. Some minutes passed and the nurse came in, but when she did, the child was already gone. The woman further said “I cried and cried for the son I had just lost.”
This incident happened at a general hospital, which is meant to be a hospital for the masses, since most private hospitals offer greater services, but their charges are a lot higher, thus making it difficult for people of lower income to access them.
As I earlier on said, it has nothing to do with SRH, but how can we move forward when people who might tomorrow turn out to be great leaders are forgotten probably because they have little money to offer the society for their lives to be paid attention to. I must end that, no progress will come to this country if the citizens that matter are treated as trash.
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