I recently came across this write up published by one of the members of this forum. I am copying his post and posting it here because of the urgent attention his write up deserves. I also have lost a pregnant friend as result of wrong treatment giving to her by Goldcross hospital in Ikoyi. Please read below:

Goldcross Hospital located in Bourdillon, Ikoyi Lagos due to their incompetent and wicked bunch of staff on their payrole have caused the deaths of many unborn-babies and their mothers. I have a recent experience of a friend who almost lost his child and his wife as result of the wrong treatment being administered to her by Gold Cross Hospital, she was only saved by the fact that she travelled abroad for treatment when the complication she was experiencing became very horrible. When she got to the overseas country, she went for treatment, she was stabilized and the doctor was shocked at the wrong treatment they were administering to her and mentioned that Nigerian hospitals are fond of giving pregnant women wrong treatment.

The second incident involving the same hospital in ikoyi (Goldcross Hospital) was of a young pregnant lady who was under the care of the hospital. She lost her baby after several months of being pregnant. The bay (Foetus) had to evacuated due to the advanced level of pregnancy. After the procedure she started complaining of pains . she eventually passed away. She was slightly above the age of 23. She left behind a very devastated and bereaved husband and family members.

I am writing this in protest of the unnecessary deaths of unborn children and their mothers that have been caused by Gold Cross Hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos
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I hereby appeal to all the relevant agencies in Nigeria to investigate and bring to justice all those involved in various deaths caused by the incompetency of the staff and management of Goldcross Hospital in Ikoyi.

In conclusion, this goes out to all the pregnant women out there in Nigeria. Please carry out a detailed research on the hospital that you will register under during your pregnancy. Please also make sure you ask questions on any treatment being given to you. You can also google the names of any drugs that is being administered to you to ensure you are not being giving the wrong drug.

Lastly, i would like to encourage all pregnant/prospective women to please remain very prayerful during pregnancy.

Government must hear this

Always register in a General hospital. And yes, pray all through the pregnancy!

Always register and in a General hospital. And yes, pray all through the pregnancy!

@op, your accusations are very vague. You need to get more details and proper info on what went wrong and the specific problems. If the affected person is your relative, you have a right to information.
Goldcross has more loyal patients than enemies.

OP , your write up is too general and as someone said too vague .
We need to know the diagnosis in each case you mentioned along with the level of complication each pregnant woman had suffered before presenting at that hospital . pele my dear!

floragregs:
Always register and in a General hospital. And yes, pray all through the pregnancy!

Am sure you are not a high - earner ...for you to have so much faith in our ill-equipped , poorly -staffed , overcrowded General hospital which can not even appropriately refer women for tertiary care!

Oduduwaboy:

Am sure you are not a high - earner ...for you to have so much faith in our ill-equipped , poorly -staffed , overcrowded General hospital which can not even appropriately refer women for tertiary care!

do u know me somewhere? How can u be "sure" I am not a high earner? Did u think before u typed that? General hospitals have more doctors and they know what they are doing! Don't be ignorant.

I had my first baby in imo state general hospital. Apart from d usual strike, it was wonderful. And yes I am not a low earner.

floragregs:
do u know me somewhere? How can u be "sure" I am not a high earner? Did u think before u typed that? General hospitals have more doctors and they know what they are doing! Don't be ignorant.

you must not b in the South West. that's why u have that opinion about general hospitals.

chinma414:
I had my first baby in imo state general hospital. Apart from d usual strike, it was wonderful. And yes I am not a low earner.

see wat I mean? not Osun State General hospital.

no political quotes pls. I'm only saying what I have seen with my two eyes.

elobyobi:

you must not b in the South West. that's why u have that opinion about general hospitals.
see wat I mean? not Osun State General hospital.

no political quotes pls. I'm only saying what I have seen with my two eyes.

I live in Delta,. The General hospital is good here. The doctors work hard and they can be trusted unlike private full of auxiliary nurses that u can't even know who's qualified or not.

floragregs:
I live in Delta,. The General hospital is good here. The doctors work hard and they can be trusted unlike private full of auxiliary nurses that u can't even know who's qualified or not.

no wonder.

Firstly, i have 3 kids and my first was delivered abroad. My last two were delivered @ Goldcross and the experience was good. Infact as i write i'm still at Goldcross cos my last was born 2 days ago and will be discharged tomorrow. I went online to see what comes up on Goldcross solely out of being impressed at the way the nurses, management et al would come every now and then to see how we were doing.The delivery was smooth and i had an amazing doctor who despite being pregnant herself had ensured my wife delivered safely only to put to bed 2 hours later.My apologies for people who have lost loved ones but i think medical cases & refferals are not "Yeah" or "nay" topics discussed in forums. It goes deeper than this. On the issue of General Hospitals, how good or bad they are is based on how important health ranks on the scale of things for the incumbent government of any state as i believe every state would "in a perfect world " want to have great hospitals. Thanks guys.

SANITIZING THE NIGERIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM... DIVINE INTERVENTION OR SCAPE GOAT NEEDED

On Sunday, 10th January 2016, just few days ago, as I drove to church, I came across an accident scene on Oregun road; a mobile police man had been thrown off his bike after hitting a turning Hilux van. (Whether he should have been riding a bike that if ordinary citizens tried riding would have been seized is a story for another day.)

Well the First Aider in me kicked in as I promptly parked, joined ohers who had stopped and checked him, only a few bruises were noticeable, but after asking how the accident happened and learning he had literally been thrown across the hilux and landed head first, it was decided it would be better to rush him to the nearest hospital for proper check up.
I volunteered to take him to the hospital, hoping my Red Cross membership would be vial to getting him attended to promptly.

With hazard lights blinking and horns blaring I made for the hospital as fast as I could and drove into the medical emergency ward. The attendant on duty (I don’t want to dignify by calling her a nurse as I believe a nurse would have been concerned with lives.) flippantly replied, “We don’t handle accidents here; find your way to the surgical emergency for accident cases”. I thanked her and she went back o disinterestedly doing whatever she was before we got there.

We went further down to the surgical emergency. We got there a few minutes past 8am, and first things first we collected a card, filled it and were asked to sit, after sitting till past 10am, a nurse finally came and gave him a shot of TT. The wait continued until he was finally attended to around 11am. With drugs being written down and him being advised to take an x-tray.

I was baffled because if he had any internal injuries chances are the man might just collapse and die on his way home. (Well thankfully he didn’t and he is recovering well now.)

Anyway that aside, those three hours in the surgical emergency of that hospital showed me a lot and taught me about how sanctity for human life has become degraded.

An armed robbery victim was rushed in from a private hospital,(name withheld) he had been cut severely by the robbers and the private hospital had apparently done what they could before transferring him to this particular Government hospital,(Name withheld but your guess is as good as mine) hence he came in heavily bandaged and with an iv line attached to him. However he was still losing a lot of blood, and groaning in pain. It was a Good Samaritan that had spotted the man being robbed and ‘macheted’ and had rushed him to the hospital even though he was wearing only a boxer shorts and t-shirt.

As a first Aider my heart went out to him, and I thanked God he had been brought into the hospital (As a first aider your Job ends there) and I expected to see the hospital staff swing into Action. Alas they continued their banters as if nothing had happened. The driver of the makeshift ambulance was accompanied by two staff of the private hospital who presented some papers to the people at the reception desk. Lo and behold they pronounced first go and get a card. next they began to complain, saying a whole(name of private hospital) sending us a paient. anyway, a card was gotten and filled and then the next pronouncement shook me to my bones.

“We are sorry there is NO BED!”

What? This must be a joke I guessed, but lo and behold the patient whose survival depended largely on being attended to immediately, was left lying and groaning in the back of the Volvo van(makeshift ambulance) for over 30minutes. I would walk out and back inside the ward with tears on my face, I went to the ambulance severally, the man was coherent intermittently, but there was nothing I could do at that point. The man needed urgent attention by qualified medical personnel.

Eventually a woman who seemed to be coordinating finally asked that one woman go take the vitals of the casualty, and I heard another response that shook me to the bone.

Emi ti close o, mo fe ma lo le. In English: me I have closed o, I want to go home.

I wondered what happened to the sanctity of human life. Finally his vitals were taken, a bed was brought out from somewhere inside, a patient in the emergency ward transferred to that bed, and then the emergency bed/stretcher taken out to bring the casualty in. AFTER ALMOST AN HOUR!!!

Immediately he was brought in, they all began running helter-skelter to save his life, and I shook my head at the hypocrisy. As far as I was concerned if that man dies his blood is solely on the Surgical Emergency staff of the big government hospital in Ikeja.

What or who then do we blame?

The lack of beds?

The lackadaisical attitude of the staff?

Do we need divine intervention in the medical line?

If a teaching hospital can treat human life this way, then what do we expect from other hospitals?

Or do we need some staffs to be sacked so others can sit up?

As I shared my experience with a fellow staff in the office this morning she reminded me of the case of a mutual friend who was shot a few years ago by robbers and rushed to this same hospital. Lo and behold, NO BED!!!

How can this worrisome trend be allowed to continue? What is needed to be done?

DIVINE INTERVENTION OR SCAPEGOAT NEEDED?

Teaching Hospitals are also General Hospitals in most places. Which do you prefer? General or Private?

Goldcross Hospital is one of the best in the country..

I have had good and bad experiences with Gold Cross Ikoyi. I brought in an emergency case to them by 2am and it took 30mins for the nurses and doctor to see the patient even though the patient was covered by HMO.

Another problem is their Customer Care.from my experience they are more focussed on protecting hospital policy than customer care. Poor intiative to assuage a non-standard situation from one of the customer care agents.

They have some good doctors and employees but then i feel their bureacracy is not quite helpful. Their front desk couls be good in morning/ afternoon and standard inquiries, but at night and with slightly complicated situations, I wouldnt say they would do well.

Sadly, this is first time I'm knowing this hospital. Googled the name trying to trace a family friend who just lost his wife. The wife also died today just after delivery