NMA: Edo Doctors Use Candles, Lanterns To Treat Patients

Edo State chapter of Nigerian Medical Association, NMA has raised
alarm over the bad state of health facilities in the state, regretting
that Doctors use candles, rechargeable Lanterns to work.
The state chairman of NMA, Dr Emmanuel Osaigbovo, who raised the
alarm while briefing journalists in Benin City, urged the state
government to declare state of emergency in the health sector.
He said;
"Today, there is hardly any functional ward that is befitting for the
people to recover from their infirmities. The wards are dilapidated
and ironically pose a major health risk to those who are being cared
for and those who render services therein.
"In some of these obsolete facilities, doctors in their usual zeal to
work resort to the use of candles and personal rechargeable lanterns
when the authorities fail to provide basic electricity. The buildings
are falling apart in their numbers due to lack of maintenance.
"We seriously hope that there is no collapse of one of those buildings
on people who have come to the hospital to get better or on those who
have come there to make people feel better.
"The theatres and laboratories are at best skeletal in the services
they render due to lack of basic equipment and consumables. Patients
have to seek help in peripheral facilities and most times fall into
the hands of quacks."