Mrs. Ifeanyi Chima was one of Lagos delegates that attended
a peace rally organised for women by the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, in
Abuja on August 15, 2013.
The vehicle, which Chima and five other women were
travelling in, had an accident at Gwagwalada Road, near Abuja, when they
were going back to Lagos the
following day.
Chima and four others were lucky to survive the accident,
but sustained various degrees of injuries.
Their coordinator, Princess Abigael Adisa, died in the
crash. Until her death, Adisa was the Coordinator of the Women for Change and
Development Initiative in Ifako/Ijaye Local Government Area of Lagos.
Chima, in an interview with Saturday PUNCH at the Intensive
Care Unit of Primus International Super Specialty Hospital (popularly known as
Indian Hospital) in Karu on Tuesday,
painted a sad picture of how she almost lost her limbs to the accident.
She called on Nigerian doctors to “sit up” like their
foreign counterparts and improve on their relationship with patients.
She said, “I was involved in a fatal accident along
Gwagwalada Road after the Women rally in Abuja on our way back to Lagos. We
were six women and a driver in the vehicle; five of us had injuries. Our
coordinator died.
“Five of us were brought to this hospital. I had a broken
left arm and dislocation on my left leg. Mrs. Titilayo Olorunda also had a
broken leg. She has been taken to another ward because she was formerly here
(in the intensive care unit). But after a surgery she was taken to her ward.
When I had the injury, I had some open wounds in my hands.”
Chima also gave a vivid account of her experiences at the
University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada where, she said, a
particular doctor exhibited poor attitude to patients.
“At the specialist hospital in Gwagwalada, instead of
treating the skin, they covered it up. It was when they brought us here (Indian
Hospital) when I was complaining bitterly that the doctor said they should open
it. That was when they started treating the place I had bruises. I had my
surgical operation some days ago.
“The doctors and nurses here are wonderful. This is what I
want our doctors and nurses in Nigerian hospitals to learn. They should be
caring. Human life needs to be taken care of. When you see somebody in pains,
take care of that person because that person needs you at that point in time.”
Culled: Punchng
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