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I had a conversation with a locum Dr that once worked in a popular Neurosurgery private clinic in Lagos.
He said that this charges a minimum of 7 million for his cases, operates almost everyday and has an in-house ICU that the medical officer on call covers with ICU nurse and remote contact with anaesthetist.
The work in the hospital is crazy but the owner of the hospital, the Neurosurgery has refused to pay more than 350k or hire more than 2 doctors to cover the entire hospital.
Many times, his doctors will complain that 350k is small for assisting 12hr surgeries and doing alternate day call but he doesn't care.
His hospital mints millions weekly but he can't pay 500k to keep his doctors.
So doctors often come in, work for one month and run away.
To fix this, he has since hired male nurses and now uses them to cover his clinic and ICU duties.
Some medical doctors are fueling medical quackery in Nigeria by training so-called "auxiliary nurses" and allowing them to perform doctors' duties. Be vigilant when visiting private hospitals, your healthcare provider may not be a licensed doctor. A sad reality that endangers patient safety.
This medical profession na the professional be the problem. Tomorrow he will tell u he can perform any surgery and to an extent he has a point. Physician, nurses, MLS, etc all train quacks and come online to complain about them. May we not be victims of a system we created.
Doctors own majority of private hospitals training “auxiliaries”
Doctors need to stop training quacks!
Doctors needs to caution themselves and their colleagues against training quacks
Male Nurses need to stop working as doctors!
Male nurses need to stop being desperate when doctors offer them job as quack doctors
Overall, 85% of quackery across Nigeria is Doctors fault, they need to stop training quacks!
Doctors are always the enablers of quackery ,they train them be it quack doctors and nurses under the poise of auxiliary and The NMCN and MDCN pay little to no attention to all these rubbish.