The Poor State Of Meningitis Patients

Some patients told journalists that hospital officials gave them the list of the same drugs and directed them to specific chemists where they could get them.Relatives of the patients who went to buy the drugs told NAN that “Sometimes, we are stopped by the chemists within the hospital premises and they give us the required drugs and when we come back, the attendants will collect back the paper.”

However, Gov. Abdulaziz Yari, had expressed disappointment over the plight of patients during unscheduled visits to the emergency camps set up for Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) patients on Sunday and Monday.

The governor particularly noted with dissatisfaction that the environment of the camps were unkempt as the patients were lying on bare sand, while drips being administered were hung on sticks.

He directed the five-member Meningitis Control Committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Abdullahi Shinkafi, to explain the situation.

NAN reports that the governor decried the performance of the committee at all the centers he visited.