The Zoo

 Few weeks ago a doctor could have been murdered right in the emergency room. He was a few centimeters away from being stabbed in the chest by an enraged man who had just lost his father.

Fellow Doctors in the ER planned a protest the next day against assault against doctors that was later quelled by the CMD.

Assault against doctors is a known problem but there's something else.

Something else that isn't talked about at all, it is that Doctors themselves also abuse patients in more ways that one.

A few days before this described incident I witnessed something shocking.

There was this patient in the ER who was unconscious and retaining fluids. The relatives were so confused and asked questions every 5 minutes… they called my attention to the fluid their relative was retaining and I relayed the complaint to my chief. To my surprise, He yelled at the top of his lungs at the relatives, " you woman, I've heard that's how you keep on Harassing doctors with your questions, disturbing them up and down. Don't you know we are doctors and we know what we are doing".

He said some more things that completely quieted the relatives and didn't ask Jack shit the whole night.

This is a regular occurrence in hospital setting. It's like a virus in the air that I have Inhaled too. I have yelled at patients too and have blamed it on the stress of work, but eveytime I did, I felt this sense of guilt knowing I could have handled the situation better.

It's not just doctors, it's nurses too. I remember a time a nurse told a lady who brought her 4 month old baby who fell off a chair that she felt like slapping the woman till sense got into her head.

When Nnamdi Kanu called Nigeria "A Zoo", he couldn't have been more right. 

In Nigeria and it's health sector, what supercedes is anything but the law and laid down structure.

We are Led by culture, morality ( that we deficient of) and 'I cannot come and kill myself' stance.

It's sad and sadder to know that there's no sight of change.