It Is Unrealistic To Blame Private Health Facility For Not Providing Care To A Patient – Reno Omokri

Reno Omokri stated that private health facilities are not charity organizations, hence they can not do anything free for you over there. On the gram Reno Omokri wrote, Except all Nigerians pay into a contributory health fund, that is shared between private and public health institutions, as is done abroad, we will lack the grounds to demand that private health facilities should use their resources to meet public health needs at their own expense! A hospital is a very expensive business. They are not charities. It is unrealistic to blame private health facilities, because you rush a friend there in an emergency and they lack resources to provide care to them.
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Let me be blunt to you. If you treat an average Nigerian in an emergency, he will get well and likely never pay. If you try to use the law to get your money, they will fight you wotowoto. In the end, you will be run out of business.  You may be able to blame a public facility, if you are a taxpayer. But why blame a private health facility. The proprietor of a private clinic has a particular clientele he or she caters to. A private hospital is not a general hospital. Abroad, Accident and Emergency wards (known as A&E) and Intensive Care Units (known as ICU) are domiciled at General Hospitals. A General Hospital is built in each major town. An ambulance in England or America will never rush an accident victim to a private clinic, because they are not equipped for that. The lifesaving machines in A&E and ICU will set you back $1 million. Or more! When an accident occurs and you take the victim to a private hospital or clinic, they are most likely to refer the patient to a hospital with both an A&E and an ICU. It is not wickedness. It is not sadistic. It is not Nigeria happening to you. It is standard procedure.
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Doing business in Nigeria is not for the faint hearted. We have a shortage of healthcare professionals precisely because our system does not appreciate them, and the citizenry expect them to deliver the type of services they see in Hollywood movies, without being willing to pay into a mandatory contributory healthcare fund. Where will the money come from? Going to a private healthcare facility in an emergency and expecting them to give you five star treatment, is like going into a restaurant and insisting they feed you because you are hungry!