Colleagues of serial killer nurse Lucy Letby have continued to insist that she is innocent after the baby murderer was jailed for life earlier this week. Nurses who worked alongside Letby, 33, at the Countess of Chester hospital are reportedly struggling to accept that she murdered seven babies and tried to kill another six. Jurors listened to ten months of evidence that linked Letby to the deaths, which saw youngsters injected with air, poisoned with insulin, and overfed …
Tag: hospitals
A photographer has cried out after 3 hospitals in lagos rejected an accident victim. The photographer added that he has been locked inside the last hospital he visited because he got tired and dropped the victim in their premises. He said he was on his way home from work late last night when he saw a man laying on the road, bleeding. He said those present had called emergency services multiple times but nothing had been done. …
Elsie Okpocha, the wife of comedian Basket Mouth, has narrated how two hospitals rejected her when she went into labour at midnight. The mother-of-three, who welcomed her third child weeks ago, said she was rejected by the hospitals on the grounds that she didn’t have her antenatal with them. When she was finally accepted by a hospital after 40 minutes of driving around, she said she suffered a cord prolapse, causing doctors and nurses to panic. They had …
According to reports emanating from the UK, the new covid-19 vaccine could be given to National Health scheme (NHS) staff in the next ten days before it is rolled out to care home residents and the over-80s. According to the Guardian, the NHS England expect to get stocks of vaccines produced by Pfizer/BioNTech on December 7, 8 or 9. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said in September that elderly people living in care homes and …
The federal government has disclosed that it has paid N4.5 billion to 31 teaching hospitals and medical centres as hazard and inducement allowances following the outbreak of Coronavirus in the country. The announcement was made by minister of labour and employment Chris Ngige, amid the nationwide strike embarked upon by resident doctors who are demanding payment of hazard allowance, group life insurance, payment of minimum wage and provision of adequate personal protective equipment for all health workers. Ngige said the …
Twitter users have taken to the platform to share instances where hospitals switched babies after birth. They shared their stories after popular Twittet user, Sisi Yemmie warned mothers to be alert and have someone in the hospital with them to follow the baby around because corrupt health workers now receive money to switch babies. She wrote: “Please always have someone with you in the hospital while giving birth. The person MUST be alert. MUST follow your baby. Some …