Hospital pledges quality service delivery

Hospital pledges quality service delivery
By Talatu Maiwada
Negligence
Abuja, July 5, 2018 (NAN) The management of Garki Hospital, Abuja, has reassured residents of quality service delivery and value for money.
Dr Nyamudim Essien, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, said this at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja.
Essien spoke against allegations of negligence by the hospital that claimed the life of a corps member, Miss Angela Igwetu.
He recalled that late Igwetu was brought into the hospital at 3:05 a.m in a critical condition.
He described the allegation as false and malicious, stressing that the hospital tried its best to provide medical care at the early hours of before the deceased gave up the ghost.
The CMD also described as callous and unfounded reports that the hospital insisted on Police report, thereby leaving the young lady to bleed to death.
“Miss Igwetu was brought to this hospital at 3:05 a.m on the 4th July, 2018, in a precarious condition.
“The doctors on duty at the Accident and Emergency Department, including a consultant surgeon on call, battled to save Igwetu’s life by providing care, including blood transfusions and limited surgery,’’ he said.
He reaffirmed that the hospital had a standing policy of not insisting on Police report before attending to traumatised patients at the Accident and Emergency Department.
According to Essien, the facility does not demand for payment before attending to traumatised patients.
“Our priority is to first revive the patient. The same treatment we extend to the rich is the same treatment we give to the poor; however, we treat people equally.
While cautioning against injurious reports, the CMD advised all to “cross check their facts before going to the press.
“There is no need for them to rely on rumours and gossips, as their source of information, our doors are always open’’.
Essient therefore demanded for a rebuttal from the social and mainstream media involved in this “unethical conducts’’ capable of bringing the much revered Nigerian media to disrepute. (NAN)
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Edited by Bola Akingbehin/Muhammad Suleiman Tola