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| Attacks on LUTH By Sun News Publishing Friday, February 29, 2008 Recently, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi- Araba, temporarily closed down its Accident and Emergency Unit to protest the increasing attacks on hospital workers by hoodlums. The February 15, 2008 attack which led to the closure was said to have been caused by the death of a patient who was hit by a vehicle, in the hospital. The hoodlums were reportedly hired by relations of the deceased to retaliate an alleged negligence by workers of the affected unit, which was believed to have led to the death of the accident victim. As a result of the closure, accident victims and those seeking emergency treatment at the hospital were turned back as health workers in the unit stayed off duty until their safety could be guaranteed. The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Professor Akin Osibogun, defended the action by saying that the workers justifiably refused to attend to patients in the affected unit for the period the order lasted to avoid a repeat of the incident which led to the death of a senior nursing officer, Mrs. Rachael Akinpetide, who was killed by hoodlums in the hospital in 2001. Akinpetide’s death in the course of duty was perhaps the most tragic incident in the history of the hospital since its inception in 1962. The late Akinpetide died on Wednesday, August 1, 2001, a week to her 50th birthday as a result of an attack by hoodlums who reportedly invaded the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit. The hoodlums vandalized medical equipment and attacked medical staff, including nurses. These are unfotunate developments. Attacking hospital workers over allegations of negligence is not the best response to such a situation. The matter is even made worse by the use of hoodlums who are psychologically prone to violence and destruction. It is a known fact that hospital workers are there to care for the sick and save lives that ordinarily might have been lost if there were no medical intervention. The health workers do not take the lives of their patients. But in the course of duty, accidents or mistakes might occur and lead to loss of life. Under such circumstances, the relatives of the victims should not resort to violence. There are in- built channels of redress available to the public. Victims of shoddy medical treatment or their relations can seek redress with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) which is eminently and professionally qualified to handle such alleged cases of professional misconduct and discipline the erring medical personnel. Under no circumstance should hospital patients, their relations or hired hoodlums take the law into their hands or resort to jungle justice. Those who are not satisfied with the outcome of the council’s decision have the right to sue the medical personnel involved in the regular courts to seek for justice. The recent attack on LUTH workers portrays the country in bad light. It is indeed a mark of under-development that health- care givers in 21st century Nigeria are being attacked in the course of duty over mere allegation of negligence. It is even more pathetic when the killed health worker is not linked with the negligence, if at all there was any, as happened in LUTH some years back. We deplore this development and call on the authorities of LUTH to investigate this matter with a view to bringing to book those behind the barbaric and dastardly act. LUTH should find out if there was indeed any case of negligence and if the death of the patient was really as a result of negligence. Even if negligence is proven, it is still not enough to take another life because two wrongs do not make a right. But that is not to say that we condone negligence in any way. Negligence on the part of the health worker or even the patient or his relations can cause irreparable damage to the health of a patient. It is regrettable that such damages are, at times, irreversible. The management of LUTH should do something if the death of the victim was actually caused by negligence on the part of its workers. We suggest also that hospital staff be re-orientated to change their attitude to work. The attitude of some health workers, these days, is unpleasant and nauseating to patients. There is the need to re- train hospital staff to keep abreast of new care-giving techniques that are patient-friendly. Hospitals should be a place where patients are treated with utmost care, respect and compassion. We suggest that LUTH should consider seriously the issue of security to avert future occurrence of these ugly incidents. |
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Men and women of
immense foresight have often
on every predominantly
conservative society attracted
the ire of the powers that be
for being just what they are -
foresighted. Exactly 40 years
ago, the then Colonel
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu, an Oxford graduate
in English, who was named
the military governor of
Nigeria's Eastern Region
called for "some sort of
autonomy" for the region in
the wake of genocide against
Nigerian Easterners especially
in the northern part of the
country. An initial deal struck
in Ghana between Ojukwu
leading the Eastern Region
and the then Col. Yakubu
Gowon, the Military Head of
State, accepted the proposal,
only for Gowon to get back
to Lagos and renege saying he
did not quite understand the
import of the deal due to his
being inflicted with "some
infections" during the
conference. The 30 month
fratricidal war that followed
the 1967 cop out by the
Gowon-government and its
advisers is a 40 yr.-old
history now. However, the
economic and political
stability, as well as the
nascent democracy of the
African "giant" is still being
threatened by civil
disturbances and clamor for
more regional power.
Today in the United States, a
global movement is brewing.
It is currently being touted by
the influential Western Media
as the Obama phenomena,
because its message of an
America of the founding
fathers, an America where the
inhabitants will take charge of
their own destiny and live out
the American dream to be able
to bring the rest of the world
in tandem with the great
American message of freedom
and democracy; is far-fetched
to those who have hitherto
wielded influence in
Washington and New York.
The foresight of the arrow-
head of this campaign, Barack
Obama is that while all
Americans recognize the
calamity in 911, the rest of
our life as a nation must not
be mired in fear, like the
buffalo which in stampede,
charges after a perceived
intruder leaving its territory
and young ones at the mercy
of other enemies. This
foresight has been scoffed at
as "fairy tale", "empty
eloquence", "unreal" and so
on because they can't get it.
Archbishop Rowan
Williams was confirmed on
December 2, 2002 as the
104th bishop of the See of
Canterbury. An accomplished
academic who was a lecturer
in Divinity till his
consecration as Bishop in
1991, Dr Williams, a Welsh,
is regarded as "a good man" in
the UK. Yet his impeccable
integrity has done little to
shield the 57 year old "Prime
Minister" of the Church of
England (the Queen remains
the ceremonial Head of the
Anglican Church) from sharp
criticism over his latest
utterances on the state of the
British society.
Dr. Williams caused no mean
stir when he opined in a
recent Radio interview in
London that the adoption of
certain aspects of Sharia law
in the UK "seems
unavoidable" adding that the
UK has to "face up to the
fact" that some of its citizens
do not relate to the British
legal system. Expectedly,
most of the immediate
reactions from most quarters
in Britain were outraged.
One however wonders what
the British people expect
from a society where in our
generation, the number of
Mosques has outstripped the
number of Churches. In the
present circumstance, what is
left to be seen is the extent of
Muslim influence on the
British social and political life
in the foreseeable future. The
only constant feature of the
global political system is
change itself.
Again, Dr. Rowan Williams
has been bold to point out a
remarkable neo-political shift
in the world super power the
United States when in a
newspaper interview, the
Archbishop of Canterbury
said that the United States
wields its power in a way
that is worse than Britain
during its imperial heyday.
Rowan Williams claimed that
America’s attempt to
intervene overseas by
“clearing the decks” with a
“quick burst of violent
action” had led to “the worst
of all worlds”.
From all indications Rowan
Williams is saying the mind of
the American electorate going
by the massive support to the
left-wing Democratic
Presidential candidates and
the clear lead of the liberal
conservative Republican
candidate in the current
presidential primaries.
immense foresight have often
on every predominantly
conservative society attracted
the ire of the powers that be
for being just what they are -
foresighted. Exactly 40 years
ago, the then Colonel
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu, an Oxford graduate
in English, who was named
the military governor of
Nigeria's Eastern Region
called for "some sort of
autonomy" for the region in
the wake of genocide against
Nigerian Easterners especially
in the northern part of the
country. An initial deal struck
in Ghana between Ojukwu
leading the Eastern Region
and the then Col. Yakubu
Gowon, the Military Head of
State, accepted the proposal,
only for Gowon to get back
to Lagos and renege saying he
did not quite understand the
import of the deal due to his
being inflicted with "some
infections" during the
conference. The 30 month
fratricidal war that followed
the 1967 cop out by the
Gowon-government and its
advisers is a 40 yr.-old
history now. However, the
economic and political
stability, as well as the
nascent democracy of the
African "giant" is still being
threatened by civil
disturbances and clamor for
more regional power.
Today in the United States, a
global movement is brewing.
It is currently being touted by
the influential Western Media
as the Obama phenomena,
because its message of an
America of the founding
fathers, an America where the
inhabitants will take charge of
their own destiny and live out
the American dream to be able
to bring the rest of the world
in tandem with the great
American message of freedom
and democracy; is far-fetched
to those who have hitherto
wielded influence in
Washington and New York.
The foresight of the arrow-
head of this campaign, Barack
Obama is that while all
Americans recognize the
calamity in 911, the rest of
our life as a nation must not
be mired in fear, like the
buffalo which in stampede,
charges after a perceived
intruder leaving its territory
and young ones at the mercy
of other enemies. This
foresight has been scoffed at
as "fairy tale", "empty
eloquence", "unreal" and so
on because they can't get it.
Archbishop Rowan
Williams was confirmed on
December 2, 2002 as the
104th bishop of the See of
Canterbury. An accomplished
academic who was a lecturer
in Divinity till his
consecration as Bishop in
1991, Dr Williams, a Welsh,
is regarded as "a good man" in
the UK. Yet his impeccable
integrity has done little to
shield the 57 year old "Prime
Minister" of the Church of
England (the Queen remains
the ceremonial Head of the
Anglican Church) from sharp
criticism over his latest
utterances on the state of the
British society.
Dr. Williams caused no mean
stir when he opined in a
recent Radio interview in
London that the adoption of
certain aspects of Sharia law
in the UK "seems
unavoidable" adding that the
UK has to "face up to the
fact" that some of its citizens
do not relate to the British
legal system. Expectedly,
most of the immediate
reactions from most quarters
in Britain were outraged.
One however wonders what
the British people expect
from a society where in our
generation, the number of
Mosques has outstripped the
number of Churches. In the
present circumstance, what is
left to be seen is the extent of
Muslim influence on the
British social and political life
in the foreseeable future. The
only constant feature of the
global political system is
change itself.
Again, Dr. Rowan Williams
has been bold to point out a
remarkable neo-political shift
in the world super power the
United States when in a
newspaper interview, the
Archbishop of Canterbury
said that the United States
wields its power in a way
that is worse than Britain
during its imperial heyday.
Rowan Williams claimed that
America’s attempt to
intervene overseas by
“clearing the decks” with a
“quick burst of violent
action” had led to “the worst
of all worlds”.
From all indications Rowan
Williams is saying the mind of
the American electorate going
by the massive support to the
left-wing Democratic
Presidential candidates and
the clear lead of the liberal
conservative Republican
candidate in the current
presidential primaries.
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Some utterances
purportedly made by some
Nigerian groups in the US to
my mind, further denigrate
the integrity of the Nigerian
media. My question after
reading the reported charge
below, is whose interest is
this "group" protecting? Why
should a legal-based group
ask an aggrieved group not to
exploit all available legal
processes in seeking redress?
Read this story and like I'll
always say react if you will.
US-based Nigerians Fault
US Govt Report On 2007
Elections
03.15.2008
Tribune
Nigerians based in the United
States of America on
Thursday faulted the report
of the United States
government that the 2007
elections abridged the rights
of Nigerians to choose their
leaders freely. The Nigerians,
under the aegis of the
Organisation of Nigerian
Lawyers in Diaspora
(ONLID), said that such a
position had become
untenable with the declaration
by the Presidential Election
Tribunal that the election of
President Umaru Yar’Adua
complied with the laws of
Nigeria. In a statement from
Washington DC, United
States of America, signed by
its Convener/Executive
Director, Aloy Ejimakor,
ONLID said that the era of
casting aspersions on Nigeria
and anything done by the
country should be over now.
The body said that such
criticisms were only meant to
ridicule the country and not
because there were
substances in the allegations.
ONLID, which urged former
Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar and Alhaji
Muhammadu Buhari to drop
their petitions against Yar’
Adua, said that the position
of the Presidential Election
Petition Tribunal should be
enough to stop the
unwarranted aspersions being
cast on Nigeria and the
Chairman of the Independent
National Electoral
Commission, Prof. Maurice
Iwu, over the 2007 general
election.
purportedly made by some
Nigerian groups in the US to
my mind, further denigrate
the integrity of the Nigerian
media. My question after
reading the reported charge
below, is whose interest is
this "group" protecting? Why
should a legal-based group
ask an aggrieved group not to
exploit all available legal
processes in seeking redress?
Read this story and like I'll
always say react if you will.
US-based Nigerians Fault
US Govt Report On 2007
Elections
03.15.2008
Tribune
Nigerians based in the United
States of America on
Thursday faulted the report
of the United States
government that the 2007
elections abridged the rights
of Nigerians to choose their
leaders freely. The Nigerians,
under the aegis of the
Organisation of Nigerian
Lawyers in Diaspora
(ONLID), said that such a
position had become
untenable with the declaration
by the Presidential Election
Tribunal that the election of
President Umaru Yar’Adua
complied with the laws of
Nigeria. In a statement from
Washington DC, United
States of America, signed by
its Convener/Executive
Director, Aloy Ejimakor,
ONLID said that the era of
casting aspersions on Nigeria
and anything done by the
country should be over now.
The body said that such
criticisms were only meant to
ridicule the country and not
because there were
substances in the allegations.
ONLID, which urged former
Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar and Alhaji
Muhammadu Buhari to drop
their petitions against Yar’
Adua, said that the position
of the Presidential Election
Petition Tribunal should be
enough to stop the
unwarranted aspersions being
cast on Nigeria and the
Chairman of the Independent
National Electoral
Commission, Prof. Maurice
Iwu, over the 2007 general
election.
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"Aren't we humans all wise and conceited in our own ways?
Don't we delight in putting others in a test-tube and
drawing our own conclusions from our experiment? How
much more dynamic the world would be if we assume
bigger hearts that accommodate others and give them a
chance to prove their existence?" Victor Nwora Aghadi
Don't we delight in putting others in a test-tube and
drawing our own conclusions from our experiment? How
much more dynamic the world would be if we assume
bigger hearts that accommodate others and give them a
chance to prove their existence?" Victor Nwora Aghadi
