Medical
doctors at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, ABUTH, took to the
streets of Zaria, Kaduna state to protest. Their grouse includes that they have
been chased out of the tertiary hospital by nothing but snakes and reptiles.
Dr
Waziri Aliyu, president, National Association of Resident Doctors wing of ABUTH, declared that the protest had
become necessary to draw the attention of the government to the deplorable
state of the hospital as well as alleged mismanagement by those who manage it. “The
poor environmental sanitation within the hospital and its environs had led to
our member being bitten by a poisonous snake at the staircase of the surgical
ward. Sad enough, he almost lost his life as he suffered from envenomation as
the hospital could not provide anti-snake venom for its doctor on duty for over
36 hours after the snake bite,” said Aliyu.
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