The dilapidated state of our health system has over the years, saw to the high level of mortality rate in the country. It is so disheartening to recall that for decades, the medical negligence had been associated and aptly identified as one of the underpinning Factors menacing the economic and social upset of Nigeria as it militates against environment, behavioral and conditional approaches to local and foreign investors seeking to invest in the country.
The
ministerial screening by the Senate of the federal Republic of Nigeria has
brought before Nigerians the prisms of having an unhealthy medical system.
The president
of the Senate, Senator Akpabio, revealed this on Friday when he spoke during
the screening of Lagos State Ministerial nominee, Dr Tunji Alausa.
The Senate
president recounted how he lost his first grandson as a result of medical
negligence in a federal medical center in 2019.
He recounted
how a failed defibrillator led to the death of his grandson. According to him,
it was saddening realizing that a federal medical center was without a good
defibrillator as maintained that he lost his first grandson because an attempt
to revived the heart of his grandson from the defibrillator did not work
because the defibrillator had gone bad.