Various stakeholders in disaster management at the weekend berated hospital authorities over their attitude towards patients under their care. Speaking at the 2016 Strategic Planning Committee organised by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, South-East zone, the stakeholders noted that many lives were being lost daily owing to the non-challant attitude of medical personnel in various hospitals. Declaring the meeting open, NEMA coordinator in the zone, Mr. Udeinya Martins Ejike, expressed hope that the agency would chart a new course for disaster management issues in the area.
He stressed that with the meeting, stakeholders in the zone would identify what to do in flood control, sensitisation, training, rescue operations, among others. He assured that as a coordinating agency, NEMA would take a leading role towards training other stakeholders to arm them with contemporary disaster management practices. The meeting was attended by representatives of Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, Nigerian Red Cross, Fire Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, as well as the State Emergency Management Agencies from Enugu, Ebonyi and Anambra states. Leader of the Nigeria Red Cross team from Anambra State, Prof. Peter Kachi, bemoaned the avoidable death rate of disaster victims, blaming the situation on hospital authorities, who he said insisted on deposit before a dying person could be attended to. Recalling cases in two Anambra hospitals where accident victims were allowed to die because the doctors insisted on deposit of some money, Kachi said: “We are urging government to create designated hospitals where disaster victims could be taken to and treated immediately.
“We had a situation in Onitsha, and the unfortunate thing is that it is even a government hospital, yet they watched these people die because of money. “We also have challenges in the area of lack of earth moving materials. Not long ago, we got to an accident scene, but could not do much because we needed an earth-moving machine; we stood there and watched the victims die helplessly.” Other speakers at the meeting harped on the need for increased capacity building and increased coordination of all the stakeholders by NEMA.
By: Emmanuel Ezeh
National Mirror News
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