Snakes Now Attack Doctors And Nurses In Anambra Hospital – Lawmaker

Doctors and nurses are now at the mercy of snakes and rodents at the Enugwu Ukwu General Hospital in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra state following alleged government neglect.

A lawmaker in the State House of Assembly, Timothy Ifedioramma disclosed this during plenary today, Thursday on the floor of the house.

Ifedioramma represents Njikoka 1 Constituency.

He said, He said, “Snakes now attack doctors and nurses on duty while patients shun the place.”

“The government has really abandoned that hospital. Each time I confront the Commissioner for Health, he would say they want to upgrade the hospital.

“But we can’t wait until it is upgraded. Nothing works there now. No laboratory and the mortuary got burnt in December last year; all of that is as a result of negligence and abandonment by government.

“Our women don’t have any place to be delivered of their babies. Private hospitals are charging a lot and government hospitals are non-existent.

“I want to get some of them into a health insurance scheme but at the same time, how can somebody who is sick in the village go to Awka or Onitsha to access medical care, when we have a very big structure like Enugwu-Ukwu General Hospital.”

“There is a need to draw attention to the hospital. It needs to be equipped so that people at the grassroots can access the health facility.

He added, “As big as the hospital is, only two doctors are there. One works during the day, while the other works at night. There are no offices. The doctors sleep in their cars at night. I almost wept when I went there on oversight duty and saw patients sitting on the floor.”

According to reports, over 50 corpses got burnt in December 2018 at the hospital’s morgue in a fire incident.

At the time of this report, there is yet to be a reaction from the state government or the ministry of health.