Suakoko, Bong County – Madam Catherine George, a resident of Suakoko in Bong County, recalls her distress the day she walked into Phebe hospital to learn that her 29-year-old brother had been left lying in bedsheets mucky with feces overnight. Nearly a third of respondents, who included health-care workers, relatives and friends of patients, said the hospital rooms and wards were not kept clean. Stories shared by respondents from across the county described soiled bathrooms, patients left lying in their own waste and pleas to seemingly agitated nurses that went unanswered. “I know everybody nowadays has to work more with less, but to me, a hospital should be absolutely clean,” she said. Many people said they left the hospital feeling demoralized and disillusioned with the health-care system.

Source: Front Page Africa December 06, 2019 02:37 UTC