The debacle condition of Azare General Hospital needs urgent attention. Th is is so because, since the establishment of the hospital in 2008, eight years after the then general hospital was handed over to the Federal Medical Centre, Azare, the hospital renders services to over a quarter population of the state, serving the people of Azare and neigbhouring communities. Since then, the hospital has been abandoned; a territory of fl ies, mosquitoes 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, with only two medical offi cers, few nurses and inadequate health personnel assistants and night watchmen. 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 defi cient of power supply, and lacks auxiliary power generator to facilitate the services.
Th e reason 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 defi cient. Th is is why the buildings and the hospital surroundings relapse to a mere territory of fl ies, mosquitos and dangerous animals.
In 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. Th us, 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’ confi dence about the vital enclave, and save over a quarter population of the state from the epidemic disaster. Mohammed Datti, [email protected]
