Padan Gbagyi lost 20 people due to lack of hospital – District head
The District Head of Padan Gbagyi Village in Bwari Area Council, Chief Ezekiel Baba, has revealed that 20 people lost their lives from different illnesses due to the lack of a hospital in the village. Chief Ezekiel Baba made the assertion in an exclusive interview with Daily Trust at his place in Padan Gbagy village. […]
The District Head of Padan Gbagyi Village in Bwari Area Council, Chief Ezekiel Baba, has revealed that 20 people lost their lives from different illnesses due to the lack of a hospital in the village.
Chief Ezekiel Baba made the assertion in an exclusive interview with Daily Trust at his place in Padan Gbagy village.
“We lost 20 people due to the distance to Bwari hospital. We have a small community clinic. If any one of us falls sick and needs to be taken to hospital in Bwari or Abuja, the person may suffer or even die due to long distance. We don’t have good roads, which is why we use motorcycle as a means of transportation to link up with other communities,” he said
The district head said that the community built the clinic after many years without access to health facilities in the area council.
He said they had to beg the area council to post medical personnel to the clinic.
But he lamented that only one health official worker was sent to the clinic, and he is the only person who doubled as doctor, nurse and health attendance.
He said it was the community that has been financing the clinic excluding the health official who is under Bwari area council.
According to him, they had been writing to Bwari Area Council on the issue but nothing has been done.
When contacted, the only health official in Padan Gbagy clinic, Mr. Haruna Dogo Kaure, confirmed that he is the only health worker in the hospital.
I’m the only person posted from Bwari Area Council Health Department. I’m the doctor and the nurse. I treat only malaria, typhoid, diarrhea and fever,” he said.
But he said he referred patients that have complicated cases to another hospital for further treatment.
When contacted the Information Officer of Bwari Area Council who refused to disclose his name said that he is not authorised to speak on behalf of the council chairman.
All effort to reach the Bwari Council chairman and his secretary proved abortive as they were not around when this reporter visited their offices.