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Many Devils Work At The Fate Clinic, Auchi

Wed, 09/01/2013  IYOBOSA UWUGIAREN

I have been away from this column for the past three weeks. I needed to take a “short break”, as late Fela Anikulakpo Kuti used to say, in order to cool off in the village, taste the soup of my 86-year-old mum that I have missed in the last one year, and shut down for some weeks to avoid bad news: killings and bombings by gunmen, kidnapping and bloody robberies that have become regular incidences in our country in the last few years. I am happy I did. I am back to my desk looking more refreshed and recharged. And to my audience, I say Happy New Year! I am encouraged by your good wishes for the year. The one from respected elders statesman, Col. Umar Dangiwa, was more encouraging. I thank you all.

For those of us who crossed the turbulent and evil year: 2012, a year many people have described as “the deadliest year ever witnessed in the last few years”, our prayer is that may we never witness such a year again. True, since the civil war ended in 1970, not many people would disagree that 2012 was a year we witnessed the highest level of killings of innocent souls across the country, especially in the northern part of the country, by people with evil intentions. It was a year of massive extra judiciary killings by the police and other security agents – as recently confirmed by the minister of justice. It was a year public office holders decided to institutionalise corruption across the three levels of government: federal, state and local. Today, public office holders now steal in trillions. It was a year we witnessed several accidents: plane and auto crashes. I am not suggesting in any way that good things never happened in the out gone year. Far from it. It is just that the evil things that happened heavily outweighed the good. Surely, my prayer is that may 2012 never come again!

It is our hope that this year will be better; that God will change the minds of evil men for us to have the good things we all deserve this year. We hope politicians will learn not to talk from both sides of the mouth – stop telling lies through their teeth; stop stealing our common wealth; use the public funds entrusted in their care for the common good of our nation and the people. And it is reassuring to hear from President Goodluck Jonathan that the federal government would move very fast this year in serving the people. We hope he will keep his promise. We also hope some Nigerians will turn a new leaf, move from evil and wicked ways of doing things and learn how to do things in a Godly way.  To be sure, some Nigerians have been come ungodly in their public and professional conducts.

Let me share this unfortunate incident that happened few days to 2013 with you. It portrays the wickedness of some people. It was on December 28, 2012. My good friend, Dr. Femi Ebikaye, had left Abuja with four of his friends, including two of his colleague for marriage ceremony in Delta State. One of them, Mr. Sultan Adeyanju, was to be the best man of the person getting wedded the next day. Unfortunately, they had an accident - head-on a collision with another car between Okpella and Auchi in Edo State. It was a fatal accident that claimed a life immediately from the other car. From Dr. Ebikaye’s car, two of the medical doctors that were critically injured were rushed to Irua General Hospital about 50 kilometres from the scene of the incident while Adeyanju and one other person whose injuries were not too critical were taken to the Fate Clinic in Auchi. Adeyanju and his friends needed to be diagnosed immediately for medical attention, especially as Adeyanju complained about severe pain. As a medical doctor, Dr. Ebikaye, who narrowly escaped death and was with his friends at the hospital, knew the urgency of the matter. He had appealed to his colleague at the Fate Hospital to attend to the victims urgently. But not the evil medical staff members at the hospital; they insisted he must deposit N70, 000 before they could commence any treatment. Because the good men of the Federal Roads Safety Corps, who immediately rushed to the scene of the incident, had taken their belongings to their office in Okpella, Dr. Ebikaye was totally out of pocket. At that point, he put a telephone call to me as if I could be of assistance in far away Abuja. I requested to speak with the doctor at the Fate Clinic myself, pleading with the doctor to attend to them as money would not be a problem. I told him the medical bills would surely be settled. But the Fate Clinic medical staff would not hear of that. As if the devil was using them, they insisted on money before treatment.

At that point, Dr. Ebikaye left for the FRSC office in Okpella, about 25 kilometres away from Auchi, to get his ATM card to access fund. Poor Ebikaye! Adeyanju who was his best man when Dr. Ebikaye wedded two years ago surrendered to death few minutes before he arrived. He tried to revive him, pleading with Adeyanju not to “do this thing to me.” But it was too late. He died.

Having lost one of his dear friends out of the two rushed to the Fate Clinic, I immediately pleaded with him not to lose hope and to take the remaining one to Irrua General Hospital at once. In spite of the pain he was going through, he did just that. As I write this piece, the three surviving victims are receiving treatment in different hospitals in Jos and Abuja. But they lost Adeyanju as a result of the wickedness and unprofessional conduct of staff members of the Fate Clinic in Auchi.

If workers at the Fate Clinic could do that to their professional colleague, one can imagine what they would do to other Nigerians. I have since carried out some checks about the clinic and I was told that many accident victims have lost their lives in the same manner at the hospital. As one journalist who works in Auchi put it: “Many devils work at the Fate Clinic.”

Let’s get serious: such a clinic does not deserve to exist. The Comrade Governor, Adams Oshiomhole must act very fast. The practice of the clinic is wrong before man and God; it is against all known medical ethics in any part of the world. I am sure if the Edo State government probes deeper, it will discover that many of the staff members at the medical centre are not even qualified to work. The legitimate duty of any genuine medical personnel is to save life first before any other thing. 

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