Did you notice that during the past few years, many severe and serious medical diseases and other serious diagnosis or diagnoses affecting patients in our hospitals cannot be cured at all? Most medical staff such as doctors and others notwithstanding their qualifications could do nothing to solve the matters of our health. I mention qualifications but I wonder how many of these medical staff do possess qualifications to work in our hospitals. There is a great necessity for the Ministry of Health to make an intense enquiry on all our medical staff that work in our hospitals to establish whether or not our medical staff in hospitals is qualified.
One wonders what did our local doctors and medical staffs learn at medical schools. How comes some of them got their “medical qualifications” but are not good and hopeless in making their patients better and unable to cure the diseases of such patients? Did you know how many patients have been condemned to palliative treatment by those doctors because they failed to treat the disease and diagnosis of their patients?
In certain hospitals in Mauritius, many patients have been told that their days are numbered because their illnesses are incurable and should be treated as a terminal care. Comparing our health system with other countries, there is a great difference where patients other countries are more safe with better treatment provided such patients can financially afford their expensive treatments. If that is the case, ordinary patients who can’t financially afford to seek treatments in foreign countries, will have to die in Mauritius.
Only recently an indefatigable Opposition MP has made discoveries of massive storage of rotten unhygienic foods and expired medicines kept for patients in a town public hospital. This is disgusting and a public inquiry ought to be done for the safety and the fragile health of patients. How does one explain that?
Our Ministry of Health needs to make massive enquiries on the types of qualifications of all our medical staff as to make sure whether or not we have got the right man and woman in the right place.
These days we are often told that many people are given jobs in hospitals through backing of certain people in high position. It shows that our level of meritocracy has gone down the gutters and completely failed, no wonder why incompetence, maladministration, inefficiencies, fraud and mistakes are fully occurring in most, if not all, our Public Institutions. Our country has already gone to the dogs. All it means that in Mauritius if you are sick with serious diseases, you die! Your treatment will only be palliative treatment a sort of cosmetically dying treatment.
The medical negligence in certain of our hospitals keeps persisting. We know for a fact certain shop assistants from Supermarkets are today working as care assistants, nursing auxiliaries without genuine proper medical qualifications. Notwithstanding those recruits have no proper medical qualifications and yet certain of them are seen taking patients’ blood pressure. One wonders why so many patients dislike going for treatment in our hospitals these days. We often heard report of how patients are badly treated in certain of our hospitals by both medical and nursing staff.
There is a true saying that some people have been seen walking through the gate of certain of our hospitals for treatment but the same people coming out from the same gate of these hospitals as dead bodies in black zipping plastic bag.
What about the rights of our patients in our hospitals? Are these rights respected by medical and nursing staff? From what we heard of that such rights have never been taken seriously neither by doctors nor nurses! Patient’s rights’ have always been baffled. Most of the medicines and drugs patients got from our hospitals come from India which are not effective and responding to their treatments.
Dialysis patients live a very tough life in our hospitals. Most of those dialysis machines are archaic, outmoded and obsolete and needs to be changed and be replaced. Many complaints have been made by those patients but no actions have been taken to remedy this situation.
Gone are the days where our hospitals were places of safety and certainty with qualified good doctors and nurses that really made the patients comfortable with reassurance of good treatment. Today majority of patient’s fear of being admitted for treatment in hospitals because majority of doctors and nurses (not all) could not give a damn about conditions of patients in hospitals. No wonder why we have today so many cases of medical negligence where patients died because of lack of care.
By Ahmad MACKY
