Don't know how to describe my feelings reading this, perhaps because my son is currently on admission in a government teaching hospital. I know a couple of people that are victims of mistakes from medical doctors. The most recent one was the transfusion of wrong blood. You all know what the end would be.
Also remember one that was given a wrong IV drip. All the drip has gone in before the mistake was discovered and nothing could be done. The patient knew she was dying and did a few hours after.
Mistakes are normal, but not when lives are involved. The situation of the Nigerian health sector is a very sad one.
I reall hope he gets better and its nothing too serious. Teaching hospital usually have the best consultants in the state watching over cases but these days there is a scarcity for doctors and the government is not employing enough cause they can't afford them.
For transfusion problems the blame can go round to everybody from the Lab attendant who didnt label the blood properly or the one who didn't do the grouping and cross matching properly or the doctor who was careless enough to give the wrong blood to the wrong patient.
Yeah....they become very costly and someone could die.