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Animals in Human Skin: Nigeria's Failed Health System Prince Charles Dickson Jos, Plateau Nigeria.
Animal in human skin, animal dey wear coat, and Animal dey put on tie, animal dey put agbada. It’s only an animal that will see fellow animals suffering and neglect the animals, without blinking. This does not however imply to all animals, some still show human compassion. However our leaders have a long time dispensed off with human sympathy or empathy.
At the end of this piece I would be glad to receive responses to the effect that I am wrong about my ranting. “Nigeria has the deadliest type of malaria with about 300,000 Thousand Nigerians dying annually “. These were the words of Dr (Mrs.) Temitope Sofola, Coordinator for the Roll Back Malaria programme. It is a pathetic case indeed, now it is not difficult to see the relationship. “The happiest people on earth”, “one of the richest poorest”, “sixth largest oil producer” and then the world’s deadliest type of malaria. Our leaders are there throwing political muscles at each other, hassling each others like eunuchs not being able to hit each other and stealing money left, right and center.
The Bayelsa State Governor would have not been caught in London, if he had gone to a hospital in Bayelsa at least the hospital at home would have provided him with immunity, but thank God, he had more than malaria of the body, he also had malaria of the pocket, which he hoped to cure with a million Pounds in the U.K.
The Federal Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria are all operating under laws that would make Lord Lugard turn in his grave. No State has been able to effectively allocate 10% of its budget to the health sector yet the Chief Health Officer’s (Governors) of most states allot 99%of their budgets to their pockets and 1% for AOB (any other business). Animals in human skin
Of 120 million Nigerians that we are, 1.2 million are blind, the number would increase definitely, and it would. 80%of these figures were avoidable either by prevention or early treatment. The plan must definitely be that all Nigerians go blind so that they would sell what remains of Nigeria. At least in the country of blind main a one eyed Obasanjo is King with third, fourth and fifth term and who born monkey to voice any opposition when he cannot see.
In the nation’s capital weeks back the health sector was brought to a halt, with the city’s three General Hospital’s paralyzed because of a warning strike, the nurses, doctors, health workers were begging for the implementation of a 22% increase approved for them by the government. Pity!
Animals in human skin, while this was happening, the National Assembly was more concerned about how much had been released to Aso Rock for capital projects, overhead, ‘thiefhead and swearhead’ for oath taking activities. Nigeria is a nation run by committees, panels and probes, off course how will politicians chop without committee this and panel that. The Minister of Health, Prof. Lambo constituted a committee, to restore sanity to the health sector? No! He simply set up big grammar, National Technical Committee on Blood Transfusion Service to formulate a National Blood Policy. It’s obvious they now know that Nigerians have been sapped of blood, walking the streets in living dead fashion.
In the President’s home, Ogun State, 50,913 persons are living with the HIV/AIDS scourge and the Federal Government was making 33.75 million Naira as part grant for the establishment of the African Center for HIV/AIDS Information and Management like all such before it, Nigerian leaders like big names like ‘Center for making Nigerians Blind while they Steal the nation Dry’ or ‘Let them have Malaria while we collect foreign grants’.
This year alone, over hundred people have died of gastroenteritis in Gusau, Zamfara State alone and nobody sent a sympathy text from the National Assembly, no newspaper page was bought for an Ad, rather it was just a small news column, something we call in journalism, ‘briefly’. In Nigeria the electorates’ life is brief indeed.
The Emir of Ilorin could not hide his distain when he called the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, a “glorified” General Hospital. Why? The maternity ward of the hospital was “experiencing” experiencing water shortage. Infact an expectant mother had to be kept waiting for six hours before she could take her bath, the husband had to bring jerry cans of water, the short of this long episode was that as you were being admitted to the hospital apart from hospital card, clothes and drugs you were advised to tell your relations to bring water. A Teaching Hospital without life (Water).
Animals wearing lab coat, despite the infusion of 20,000 doctors into the system, the story is that of disorder. The Ebonyi Varsity Hospital main theatre complex was engulfed by fire destroying the entire theatre. The cause… faulty electric installation. In Nigeria it is faulty leaders, faulty nation run by animals in human skin. The Fire Service came 20 minutes later, a national record, because equipments worth 300 million were still lost in the theatre that could take three surgical at the same time. Animals for fire service!
Nigeria has an infant mortality rate of 217 babies per each 1000 compound to Cameroon’s 100, and Ghana’s 166. Off course no animal (leaders) child dies because they are born in St. Crooks Hospital England or Cathedral of Thieves Maternity in Ireland, and those born in Corruption Hospital in the U.S.A
The premier University College Hospital needs 1 billion Naira to rehabilitate its aged and obsolete facilities, yet our animals go abroad for stomach aches. This is a school that has produced great world class doctors. Yet no one cares.
It will take 50 years for the animals in human skin to learn that, never under any circumstances, when you have Diarrhoea take Valium 10 and Andrews liver salt on the same night. You won’t sleep, if you sleep, you will wake to discover animal shit all over you.
I have last count the number of medical visas issued everyday. These days our animals have learnt to use that method to thief more money. I want to write on, but like the proverbial ram, let me retreat for now, not out of fear but to gather strength. Insha Allah, one day the skeleton of the poor man would wake up and start chasing these animals out of the yard (Nigeria). May God help us.
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