The debacle condition of Azare general hospital has become a thing of concern that needs urgent attention. This is so because, since the establishment of the hospital in 2008, about exactly eight years after the then General hospital handed over to the Federal Medical Centre Azare, the hospital renders services to over a quater population of the state, where it serves the people of Azare and the neigbhouring communities. Since then, the hospital has been abandoned and becomes a territory of flies, mosquitos and dangerous animals, yet a pestilence trap.
It is worrisome that the hospital that renders services to the said population of the state, has been reduced to a mere dispensary, survives with only two medical officers, very few number of nurses and inadequate number of health personnel assistants and night watchmen. This why the staff of the hospital become overworked at certain point, where unable to attend patiens at emergencies at the other.
Part of the grotesque situation of the hospital, is the pathetic condition of the electricity which force the management to shut down some services, because, since its establishment in 2008, the hospital has been deficient of power supply, and lacks auxiliary power generator to facilitate the services. The reason why operation theatre in the hospital becomes a risk job to the doctors and the hospital, because, it is evident that, since the establishment of the hospital only few operations survive power interruption.
Ugly as it is, the hospital also lacks sanitary services which are essential to health life. Evidences have shown that sanitary services in the hospital remain inadequate, or deficient. This is why the buildings and the hospital surroundings relapse to a mere territory of flies, mosquitos and dangerous animals.
As a matter of fact, Azare General hospital has no facilities and resources to maintain the toilets, boreholes, electricity, as well as fumigating the hospital surrounding to be safer from contaminating with any form of contagious diseases like malaria, cholera and other epidemics.
Finally, I would like to appeal to the state government, authorities, politicians, and anybody concerned to quickly intervene and stitch in time to save the nine, in order to restore peoples’ confidence about the vital enclave, and save over a quarter population of the state from the epidemic disaster.
Mohammed Datti, [email protected]
