{"id":26925,"date":"2020-06-30T12:31:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T11:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26925"},"modified":"2020-06-30T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T11:31:29","slug":"video-anger-at-abuja-hospitals-medical-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26925","title":{"rendered":"Video: Anger at Abuja hospitals, medical personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anger is said to be nationwide, but for others; it is disappointment, gross disappointment. Ironically, others have simply chosen not to go to the hospital when sick for fear of contracting a disease of strange descent. Or being tagged a patient of the ailment for displaying symptoms of common cold.<br \/>\nIn Kogi State, some communities in Igalaland have come up with a funny proverb: Amibo China joj\u0119, a jemi a gwowo wa. (In China, they ate the food, here we are washing our hands all the time).<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 400px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-26925-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VID-20200630-WA0014-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VID-20200630-WA0014-1.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VID-20200630-WA0014-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nFor the health workers, it is simply playing safe in a system that cares not for its health professionals, especially those in the public sector.<br \/>\nCovid-19 brought it all to the fore, but it was also a time for well-meaning individuals to step forward. One medical consultant, after seeking co-operation with authorities of the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) to no avail, is taking mobile hospital to sick people at home in the rural areas.<br \/>\nHe does not wish to be named for now, but expresses anger, like a trending video, that the country is not contextualising safety protocols that work for Nigerians.<br \/>\nLike a handful of others, he frowns at the copy and paste nature of Nigerian policy makers, who &#8216;follow-follow&#8217; the World Health Organisation (WHO).<br \/>\n<strong>Video: And this doctor:<\/strong><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-26925-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VID-20200622-WA0049-1.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VID-20200622-WA0049-1.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VID-20200622-WA0049-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anger is said to be nationwide, but for others; it is disappointment, gross disappointment. Ironically, others have simply chosen not to go to the hospital when sick for fear of contracting a disease of strange descent. Or being tagged a patient of the ailment for displaying symptoms of common cold. In Kogi State, some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7,5776],"tags":[913,18,1235],"class_list":["post-26925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","category-social-media","tag-abuja","tag-anger","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}