Minna: Pregnant women laments extortion by Nurses in Hospital

From Yakubu Mustapha, Minna

Some pregnant women seeking medical services Jummai Babangida Aliyu Maternal and Neonatal Hospital have lamented over alleged the incessant extortion by the Nurses in the hospital.
Our reporter reliably gathered that the nurses in the hospital have been selling hospital bedsheets to pregnant women and patients that cannot afford amenity wards, although witnessed drastic shortage of manpower which can not be a reason.
It was also further gathered that Pregnant women in Antenatal wards were dumped in a terrible rooms without ceiling fans or any form of ventilation.
Further reports revealed that the Neonatal ward lacks water and clean toilets hence the good hygiene is completely lacking in the hospital.
The patients however, appealed to Governor Muhammad Umar Bago to as a matter of urgency pay unscheduled visit to the hospital and see things for himself to ensure that the needful is done to save the lives of the pregnant women in the state.
It was reliably that some of the Doctor’s in the general hospital Minna usually preferred to refer patients to their private hospitals for proper attention and medication, hence the nonchalant attitude of the medical workers across major units of the general hospital in Minna.
However, efforts to get the response of the Medical Director to the development proved abortive.