TAKE ACTION, HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!

Countless people in our hospitals have died of medical negligence. Unfortunately Nigerians are so ‘saintly’ that they prefer to leave everything to God.
People will regale you with sordid tales of what they or their friends/ relations went through in the hands of medical personnel in our hospitals; most of them notable ones. How they managed to survive. Yet, nobody is willing to do the needful. I’m talking about bringing them to book. Speaking to the relevant authorities or at least to people who will ensure that justice is done. Evil thrives in secrecy and until people begin to speak out, a lot more will die. Several others will leave with various kinds of health challenges.
Do you know that in the United States –
• 440,000 patients die every year from preventable medical errors. [Journal of Patient Safety]
• Preventable medical errors cost our country tens of billions of dollars a year. [Institute of Medicine]
• One in three patients who are admitted to the hospital will experience a medical error. [Health Affairs]
• Studies of wrong site, wrong surgery, wrong patient procedures show that “never events” are happening at an alarming rate of up to 40 times per week in U.S. hospitals. [Archives of Surgery]
• In 2014, the total spent defending claims and compensating victims of medical negligence accounted for just 0.2 percent of health care costs.
• Medical negligence cases represent approximately 0.2 percent of the overall civil caseload in state courts. [National Center for State Courts]
• Researchers at Harvard University found that 97 percent of cases were meritorious, concluding, “Portraits of a malpractice system that is stricken with frivolous litigation are overblown.” [New England Journal of Medicine]
Now what happens when preventable medical errors go unreported? How many more deaths and or life damaging errors are you going to keep quiet about? How many preventable medical errors occur in your local hospital not to talk about the major ones though it is not spoken about?
When Sandra David, a 29-year-old staff of the Bank of Agriculture, was in March diagnosed with gall bladder complications requiring surgical correction, she asked for only a few days off work and headed for the Federal Staff Hospital, FSH, Abuja. That was the beginning of a journey…
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