Stopping Attacks On Health Workers

Recently, the media reported that some relatives of some patients beat up two nurses at the Federal Medical, Owo in Ondo State, injuring them in the process.
The nurses were beaten for the death of their patient, they brought to the hospital in critical condition.
The family members of the deceased person were said to have betrayed emotions after the patient gave up the ghost when he was allegedly not attended to on time.

Hospitals and its medical personnel are often exposed to attacks by relatives of patients who died in hospitals and these people felt that the Hospital’s doctors and nurses had not done enough to save the life of the deceased.

In the experience of the University of Medical Sciences and Teaching Hospital, Akure Complex, the attacks were reoccuring as it became more volatile and almost beyond the capacity of the security attached to the facility to curtail.

As gathered by EKO HOT BLOG , attacks on government health establishments and the staffers is a trend that is becoming a recurrent evil in our society.

Tempers easily flare when family of patients feel that their sick one is not getting the required attention or care and they resort to taking laws into their own hands rather than seek redress through the proper channel.

Things tend to get out of hand especially when such sick one eventually passes away. In their grief, reasoning often become clouded.

Some actually claim that medical personnel in government owned hospitals are often times not attentive to their duties. However, the question is; does unleashing mayhem on the defenseless medical workers offer any help?

The trend cannot be addressed only by beefing up the security around the Hospital.

Members of the public need to have a change of attitude towards hospital staff as they were employed to give care and hence would not stand idly by while they lose their patients.

Cases of attacks on health workers is not new. It has been on for a while. However, it might not abate if some cogent issues are not addressed.

Hospital workers also need to work on their attitude. Some of them treat their patients and families like lepers especially the poor ones.

Hence when the inevitable happened, the family of the deceased would not help assuming that the hospital had not done enough to save the life of the lost loved ones.

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