Either in underdeveloped, developed or developing countries, the health system of any nation speaks volume about how the government cares for her citizens.
Shockingly, one of the self acclaimed best hospital in Nigeria and abroad, National Hospital, Abuja has been in the news for barrages of complains from patients and dumbfounded revelations about the hospital.
The outward appearance and structure of the hospital is appealing but the inside is nothing but a village hospital.
Investigations by this online medium revealed that in National Hospital, Abuja just 2 nurses attend to over 20 patients in an hospital of such magnitude.
Similarly, doctors and nurses seems not to understand each other again medically as they publicly confront each other in the presence of their patients.
Further investigations revealed that patients are subjected to buy hand gloves, plasters, cotton wool, syringe and needles, wipes and a host of medical aids for their treatment.
Also, the cooling system that should be working non stop in respective wards are non functional, hence patients were advised to come with any other means of cooling system such as small electric fans or hand fans.
Wards are also unkept with blood stains on the walls and a whole lots of anomaly.
The founding fathers of National Hospital planned that the hospital would just be for children but the vision was changed, over 20 years the hospital cannot boast of being one of the best in the world, same goes with the State House Clinic.
Even if the vision materialized, their should be a total overhaul of the hospital, but for now, the status quo of the hospital is nothing to write home about.
