Snakes and rodents have taken over the Enugwu Ukwu General Hospital in the Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State.
This is coming barely six months after scores of corpses got burnt in the hospital’s morgue.
The lawmaker representing the area in the state House Assembly, Timothy Ifedioramma, raised the issue of the deplorable state of the hospital on the floor of house at Thursday’s session.
“Snakes now chase doctors and nurses about while on duty, while patients now shun the place,” he said.
The lawmaker noted that the hospital had been overgrown by bush, which he blamed for the reason why snakes and rodents had taken refuge in the hospital.
Ifedioramma stated, “The government has really abandoned that hospital. Each time I confront the Commissioner for Health, he will say they want to upgrade the hospital.
“But we can’t wait until it is upgraded because the way it is now, nothing works there. No laboratory and the mortuary got burnt in December last year; all of that is as a result of negligence and abandonment by the government.
“Our women don’t have any place to be delivered of their babies. Private hospitals are charging a whole lot and government hospitals are non-existent.
“I want to get some of them into a health insurance scheme but at the same time, how can somebody who is sick in the village go to Awka or Onitsha to access medical care when we have a very big structure like the Enugwu Ukwu General Hospital?”
“There is a need to draw attention to the hospital for it to be equipped so that people at the grassroots can access the health facility.
“As big as the hospital is, only two doctors operate there. One will do day, the other will do night. There are no offices. The doctors sleep in their cars at night. I almost wept when I went there on oversight duty and saw patients sitting on the floor. “
Over 50 corpses were burnt beyond recognition in December 2018 in the hospital’s mortuary under mysterious circumstances.
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