During the ongoing hospital inspections, an Honourable Minister who will not be named for the sake of peace, asked a patient awaiting major surgery why the “lazy” hospital staff had not given him a nice, heavy breakfast before theatre. The patient, naturally, also began wondering why health workers had become so mean.
The question sounded compassionate. Medically, it was pure 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻.
Patients undergoing major surgery are deliberately kept fasting to reduce the risk of vomiting and inhaling stomach contents into the lungs while under anaesthesia. If a patient insists on eating a full breakfast before theatre, he may as well update his will, set his house in order and begin discussing funeral arrangements.
Had one of our renowned professors of surgery been standing nearby when that question was asked, he might now be before court answering charges of assaulting a serving whole Minister.
𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 ��𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.
A Minister of Health would even if drugged, still know why the patient was fasting. They would know what questions to ask, which records to examine, and how to recognise a health worker who has just completed an exhausting night call and needs rest, not cameras and public humiliation.
Hospital inspections are necessary. Accountability is necessary. But let the Ministry of Health and qualified health professionals lead health-related inspections.
A Minister of Local Government has no business marching into a labour ward with cameras, confronting exposed and vulnerable mothers, as though the Minister of Health has been dismissed and the health sector reassigned to political theatre.
Final lesson: passion may attract cameras, but only expertise should direct health related inspections.
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