“If You Think Nigeria Is Progressing Under Tinubu, Then You Are Either Blind To Reality, In Denial, Or Both”- Nigerian Man Shares Bitter Experience In Hospital

Nigerian man named Aare Vincent Olusola Arogbodo has shared his bitter experience after being admitted at the hospital and he’s amazed that
in a whole Federal Teaching Hospital, only one consultant is left to handle over 30 patients on Orthopaedic Clinic day. Says is one man, thirty lives.

Aare Vincent admits that anyone claiming Nigeria is progressing under Tinubu, then the person is either blind to reality, in denial, or both.

Sharing his experience on Facebook, he wrote:

I am inspired to write this after I bumped into a post on Uncle Tokunbo Peters wall.

If you think Nigeria is progressing under Tinubu, then you are either blind to reality, in denial, or both. I won’t even talk about every sector; I will stay with just one: our health system.

I have been admitted here for two weeks, and I can tell you firsthand, we are drowning. Our doctors and nurses are painfully few. Before I was finally admitted, I went through multiple consultations just to be considered. Imagine that. And in a whole Federal Teaching Hospital, only one consultant is left to handle over 30 patients on Orthopaedic Clinic day. One man, thirty lives. It is madness.

His only “team”? Medical students from Afe Babalola University, nursing students from FUOYE, VENITE, and other colleges of health scattered around town. Gone are the days when consultants rounded the wards daily with a team of trained doctors. Now, it happens once a week, if at all.

And yet, I cannot even bring myself to be angry with these exhausted men and women in white coats. They are working themselves to the bone, carrying the weight of an entire system that has collapsed. Sometimes I want to call a doctor to my bedside, but the thought of how overworked they already are keeps me quiet. They are human too. They deserve rest.

The sad reality? Most of the medical students we see today are not studying to serve Nigeria. They are studying to escape her. And who can blame them? Which parent wants to train a child through medical school, only for them to end up in a public hospital where their monthly salary can’t even cover transport and food?

How did we allow it to get this bad? Our leaders gorge themselves on our commonwealth while hospitals rot, while human lives are treated as expendable.

Nigeria, when will you rise? When will you finally say “enough” and fight for your own survival?

Source: Aare Vincent Olusola Arogbodo| Facebook

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