Daily Post Nigeria We get more dead bodies than patients, can’t pay minimum wage – Medical Practitioners Home News Politics Metro Entertainment Sport Health We get more dead bodies than patients, can’t pay minimum wage – Medical Practitioners Published on November 11, 2024 By Ochogwu Sunday The Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners, ANPMP, says private hospitals in Nigeria are folding up due to the ravaging economic downturn. It also revealed that the nation’s economic situation has forced several Nigerians into self medication, resulting in organ failure and subsequently, death. ANPMP’s Chairman, Dr F.
I. Odia in an exclusive interview with DAILY POST, weekend, in Lagos, claimed that morgues were being filled up with dead bodies, while hospital beds were empty. According to him, “people come only when it becomes critical and they just want you to do magic.
And some want to die in the hospital, maybe because of confusion in their families.” Dr Odia revealed that Nigerians now google their symptoms and buy “drugs from chemists until it gets to the terminal stage. “Sometimes, we keep them outside and issue death certificates because if you don’t do that, they will come in and dump the body in your hospital and say they are going to look for money for burial”.
Odia further lamented that private hospitals cannot afford to pay the N70,000 minimum wage recently approved by the federal government, owing to poor revenue. He said, “How will the.
