The Oyo State House of Assembly has condemned the negligent attitude of some health workers towards their patients, leading to untimely deaths of Nigerians.
Reacting to a motion sponsored by leader of the House at plenary, Honourable Sanjo Adedoyin and others, the lawmakers narrated various experiences where, if the doctors and nurses had given urgent attention and not being lackadaisical, they would have not lost relatives, friends.
The motion quoted numerous reports from relatives of patients of how some doctors were not at their duty posts, but at their private hospitals, and nurses engaging in banter while patients agonized and later died due to non-attention.
He mentioned the instance of a victim, Mrs Susan Babatunde, whose death was as a result of negligence of a doctor at the General Hospital, Ogbomosho, as among others happening in public hospitals in the state that are usually swept under the carpet.
He also lamented that the usual routine inspection of medical care providers in our hospitals and issuance of sanctions found wanting seem to have become a thing of the past.
He added that the constant abuse of professionalism and imperativeness of adequate care had made many lose confidence in public hospitals such that they now seek solutions to their health challenges elsewhere.
This, he said, even made people fall victim to fake online doctors and those who advertise dangerous herbal concoctions.
The Assembly, however, directed its Committee on Health to invite the Chairman and Permanent Secretary of the State’s Hospital Management Board to investigate the circumstances that led to the death of Mrs Susan Babatunde.
