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High casualties as AKTH reject patients over limited bed spaces

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Scores of patients die daily at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Kano due to lack of adequate bed spaces to accommodate emergency cases and other classes of patients.

The Guardian learnt that patients seeking urgent medical attention are either rejected at the Accident and Emergency Unit, or their family members agree to the sick being admitted on the bare floor.

In some cases, family members of the patients are compelled to standing all night to assist in administering drips on the patient or stay at the emergency unit for several days depending on how serious their cases may be.

Sources at the teaching hospital revealed that patients at emergency wards die daily after several hours of waiting for the discharge of other patients. The hospital was originally designed to accommodate 400 bed spaces but now has 600 beds.

A resident medical officer at the hospital pleaded anonymity told Guardian correspondent that doctors in the hospital were over stretched due to the high number of patients.
Guardian, 2 August, 2017

 

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