Ever stepped foot in any Nigerian hospital? You begin to wonder why you fell sick in the first place. These situations must have definitely happened to you.
1. When you step in and a whiff of hospital smell hits you
2. When all the nurses are shouting like it’s a market place
3. The people waiting to see one doctor that is ‘not on seat’
4. The wait before your card number gets called for consultation
5. Nurses asking you the most questions and checking random things
6. When they try to check your temperature with the back of their hand
7. When the doctor asks “what’s wrong with you”
8. And he proceeds to press the spot that hurts repeatedly
Come on now, are you checking for pain at all? Why are you pressing it like fresh bread?
9. When the doctor goes “I will diagnose you and prescribe some drugs”
10. When he finally does his math and says “it is malaria”
11. Trying to read the doctors handwriting
12. Looking at your prescription slip
13. When the nurses say “remove your trouser for injection”
14. On ‘admission’ and they wake you up from sleep to take your sleeping meds
15. When the nurses sleep off and forget to change your drip and it has finished
16. When you are finally well and they don’t want to discharge you
