It was reported on November 3, 2023, that relatives of patients on admission protested against the lack of water in medical wards, maternity wards, and some other places in the facility for one week.
Relatives of patients admitted to the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, ESUT-Parklane were forced to run helter-skelter on Monday when a snake entered a medical ward of the hospital.
It was reported on November 3, 2023, that relatives of patients on admission protested against the lack of water in medical wards, maternity wards, and some other places in the facility for one week.
However, after SaharaReporters’ report, water tankers supplied water to a few wards on that Friday. However, the water scarcity continued on Monday in the hospital.
The protesters lamented that they had not been able to get water to wash the clothes of their loved ones admitted to the hospital.
However, while the relatives were still battling to cope with water scarcity, one of the medical wards of the hospital was visited by a snake on Monday.
It wqst gathered that the incident caused pandemonium in the hospital’s wards on the last floor of the two-storey building as relatives quickly dashed to the beds of their loved ones on admission there to carry them out.
A young nurse mustered the courage to go after the snake and kill it while other staff members, patients and relatives ran for their lives.
A staff member who shared the picture of the snake killed in the medical ward located on the last floor of the hospital building, wrote: “Good morning. A snake was killed in the ward this morning. Pls, be cautious while on duty. Thank you.”
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior staff member of the hospital said a lot of things had gone wrong in the hospital.
The staff member explained that they had written several times to the hospital management to fumigate the facility but their suggestions were ignored by the management.
“Go round the hospital building and you will see overgrown grasses. Suppose that God did not make us see this snake and it entered inside a patient’s bag or bit a patient on the hospital bed or even our staff, what would have been our fate?
“Bathrooms in the hospital wards especially in the medical wards are filthy with stagnated water and because of that condition relatives of patients defecate in the surroundings of the hospital.”
Meanwhile, efforts made to speak with the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Bethrand Ngwu, were not successful.
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