A Glance At Nigeria’s Private Health Facilities -By Abdulaziz Isah Bagwai

I won’t advice anyone to take their relative(s) to any private health facility for any reason unless for the delaying of treatments – that government workers often do and sometimes results to the lost of live(s) – and if there’s no government health facility available. No matter the carelessness, unethical treatings and unsanitary environments I would prefer my beloveds admission to the government’s health facility.

These private health facilities you always adorn employ, mostly, a bunch of quark workers, sometimes more uncaring than the latter and works not because they wants to save lives [as health workers would say] but because they want money.

I won’t forget my aunty’s illness which resulted to her departure off this world, last year. She was taken to a private clinic in Tal’udu and had some terribly-painful treatments backed by an error-ridden prescription that even a cleaner in the hospital can write. Imagine an old person receiving an IV-based 60mg of Ceftriaxone in less than 10 minutes! This incident can’t easily escape my mind, even when it tempts to the other boring and hurting parts of it clean the table for it to sit. I just can’t!

And now that another uncle of mine is sick and before my awareness his family had took him up way to another private clinic in Bichi pained me and yes to my assumption they returned him home without accurate management. But I luckily attended him for 2-days and here he’s, now, calling my name and preferring my “unprofessional, newbie-skills” than that of the professionals.