Picture Of The Day: Dental Surgery Performed With Lantern In Nigeria

I'm sure there as electricity when the doctors in the pic above commenced the surgery. The lamp must have been used to bridge the interface between the power cut and generator back-up.

This is apparently one of the reasons why many Nigerians particularly those in power prefer to travel abroad to get medical attention.

This is the real situation we experience in Nigeria, as the power situation gets worse everyday, despite the Billions of dollars embezzled  spent to better the power sector in Nigeria. Shame on our leaders, it's more disappointing that this is a Federal Teaching Hospital.

When Doctors ask for some equipment and facilities, and then go on strike the public will ridicule them, saying they want to abandon the patients, forgetting that it's for the general good, and the people who suffer the repercussion the most are the masses. It is no news that our leaders will travel abroad to treat common cold.

Even more disheartening is the fact that the people in the position to effect change are more concerned with campaigning for 2015 elections than safe guarding the lives of the electorate whom they will eventually appeal to for votes. 

Life's bitter ironies.