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<p>Yusuf Danjuma Yunusa</p><div class="swkO6fjL" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>For a hospital that has doctors in its quarters, a patient died after being left unattended for more than three hours. A nurse on duty was the only medical personnel who tried all she could to stabilize her. This, as narrated above, was the situation in the female medical ward internal medicine as of 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday, 2nd June 2025.</p>
<p>From my findings, gaining access to a medical doctor on weekends at the National Hospital is, most times but not always, akin to seeing a Tesla car on a road in a remote location it is nearly impossible. Visiting the hospital on Saturdays and Sundays feels like visiting graveyards, especially on Sundays.</p>
<p>If health complications warrant anyone to be admitted to the National Hospital, Abuja, and it demands emergency treatment, never, ever, would the person wish it to happen during the weekends. Because there&#8217;s a ninety-nine percent chance that he wouldn&#8217;t be attended to. Why? Let&#8217;s find out:</p><div class="cz2OkqG0" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>A staff member who works at the hospital but not as medical personnel shared with the Nigerian Tracker correspondent, Yusuf Danjuma Yunusa, that the scenario is not entirely as he understood it.</p>
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<p>&#8220;You see, the reason why many people complain about this happening during weekends is nothing short of the brain drain that is affecting the country,&#8221; the staff member, who wished not to be mentioned, clarified.</p>
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<p>&#8220;In this hospital, if you observe carefully, there are many doctors, and even sometimes Mondays specifically consultants are at the beck and call of patients,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>&#8220;But rarely would you see many doctors like that during weekends, and it&#8217;s never entirely their fault. There are not enough medical doctors in the country at the moment, if we&#8217;re to be honest with each other. So, for this reason, few doctors, usually the amateur ones, are placed on duty during these weekends,&#8221; he pushed further in their defense.</p>
<p>&#8220;And it might be that at the time the incident happened, the doctor on duty that night was attending to another patient with an even more serious case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Undoubtedly, it could be deduced from the above submission that the effect of brain drain is gradually creeping in on us as a people. Doctors, after finishing their studies in Nigeria, have made it a culture to leave the country for another in search of greener pastures.</p>
<p>And if checked with an unbiased mind, one wouldn&#8217;t blame the doctors for harboring this kind of decision. The government is not making life easy and comfortable for them at all. So if you were in their position, you would do the same if given the opportunity.</p>
<p>The brain drain effect is definitely not the only cause of such a scenario, as it was also noted that most of the hospital facilities are not functioning properly. At the time the incident occurred, the nurse on duty that night had to improvise in providing a certain medical intervention for the patient.</p>
<p>&#8220;That is another point,&#8221; the mystery staff seconded. &#8220;Most of our facilities are not in the right shape, and the government does not see any need for immediate intervention. Although it may be that those who are supposed to communicate with the government are not doing so—who knows?&#8221;</p>
<p>It was observed that the management of the National Hospital must take necessary measures regarding its manpower. More doctors and medical personnel should be recruited, and the hospital should liaise with the government on optimal funding so that necessary facilities will be put in place.</p>
<p>Efforts to reach the Medical Director of the hospital proved abortive, as serious protocol bottlenecks were placed on our reporter.</p>
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