MUST READ: THE DEATH TRAP CALLED UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR TEACHING HOSPITAL

 The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, has for long lost its glory as it has rotated from being an edifice for saving lives into a monument for aiding deaths.

 Many have fallen prey to this epidemic and in recent times the situation has grown worse.

 Below is a documented report forwarded to VOICE OF yala by a concerned citizen who lost a brother in the cruelest manner to the careless hands of the medical practitioners and a crumbled facility.

           UCTH logo/gate & late simon ogon

 "my brother's name is Simon Ogon AKA Don Sarika, he slumed and was on oxygen from OGOJA to calabar, on reaching UTCH he was in Emergency unit and there had no oxygen he was surviving through the one he came with From OGOJA, which kept him alive but a Consultant(in UCTH) Came and asked that he should be taken to the Ward and no provision was made for oxygen in the ward".
 
He Further wrote: "A patient who is surviving through Oxygen was made to leave Emergency unit and clamped to men surgical ward without what was keeping him alive (oxygen) and on arriving the Ward no oxygen was available, Simon stayed about 20 minutes without oxygen and he had difficulty in breathing  which eventually led to his  death".

 "The name of the Consultant is been hidden from us but I assure you, I will get the name as soon as possible" My name is Abang Joe Atelhe.

 This is one of the many cases of persons who have lost their lives to the cold hands of death due to the negligence of staff in the facility.

 There's a claim that the only functional department in the Hospital is its Mortuary.

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