Emergency cases don’t get desired attention in gov’t hospitals – Sheikh Gumi
Story from Ibraheem Hamza MUHAMMAD
Dr Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Sheikh Gumi has expressed dismay over the sorry state of government hospitals in Kaduna State.
Gumi stated that emergency cases are not given the desired attention needed in state hospitals when he visited two major state-owned government hospitals – Gwamna Awon General Hospital in Southern Kaduna and Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital in Kaduna North.
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This was made known to journalists by his media aide, Malam Tukur Mamu Dan-Iyan Fika, in a press release.
“The visit to two major state-owned government hospitals, Gwamna Awon General Hospital in Southern Kaduna and Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital in Kaduna North has exposed Sheikh Gumi to the enormous challenges vulnerable patients and their relatives are facing in a society where virtually everything has collapsed despite the increasing number of millionaires who mostly earn such favours/money through the government at all levels and using all forms of corrupt tendencies to accumulate wealth at the expense of the suffering masses.
“The situation of the patients in all the two major hospitals is, to say the least, pathetic and indicting. Sheikh Gumi got first-hand knowledge about the increasing number of children including infants mostly, who are dying due to preventable and treatable sicknesses such as malaria and typhoid fever.
“The number of the Sheikh Gumi saw did not even have money to feed themselves not to talk of affording medical expenses even in severe cases of emergency.
Sadly too, emergency cases don’t receive the desired attention while critical medical evaluations and tests that are supposed to be done immediately and the results out on time (for patients that have the resources to pay) are being delayed to as much as one and two weeks while decisions in case of patients that required emergency surgery etc. are being unnecessarily delayed leading to deaths of patients in many occasion according to the testimony of the helpless patients,” the statement read.
Sheikh Gumi who is a medical Doctor and an Islamic scholar said that he was shocked by the sad reality he saw.
He offered cash gifts and words of consolation to the patients and their relatives.
While lamenting the situation of the enormity of the challenges of the poor patients he saw, Sheikh Gumi urged governments at all levels to provide more facilities in public hospitals, make doctors accountable and responsive and provide a means of taking care of the hospital bills of vulnerable patients, especially, those on critical condition and on emergency cases.
He also called on wealthy Nigerians to have the fear of Allah and invest for the sake of humanity.
Gumi said that what Allah has given them is meant to serve humanity and that any privileged person that fails to invest for the sake of humanity especially the less privileged and those in need will regret it here in this world and hereafter.
He lamented a situation where millions are wasted on chartered aircraft to attend wedding ceremonies, unnecessary events, attending children’s graduation abroad or wasting money on Umrah jamboree at a time when there are more important things to do that will please Allah more which he said is more rewarding.
Sheikh Gumi called on both federal and state governments to declare a state of emergency on the Nigerian health sector.
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