UPDATE: ARO PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS REVOLT, PROTEST POOR TREATMENT
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Patients in the Ogun state capital’s neuropshyatric hospital, Abeokuta, have protested against what they see as inadequate care from the federal government institution situated in the Aro neighbourhood.
The whole medical facility was caught off guard by the violent demonstration, which lasted for more than two hours before police officers from the Lafenwa Divisional Headquarters intervened and brought the situation under control.
A psychiatrist and three other nurses are said to have escaped being killed during the violent demonstration because of the ruckus that followed. They are accused of receiving subpar treatment on a daily basis at the facility.
It was learned that each time the hospital’s electrical distribution firm cut off the lights, the mentally unstable residents of the Aro Neuropsychiatric facility protested about the inadequate food, unhygienic conditions, and lack of alternate power.
According to several families of the patients who were being admitted, the problem had been going on for a while before some of the patients who had only partially recovered started to object, even after it became clear that the hospital’s management was not going to change anything.
A female relative of one of the patients on admission, who pleaded anonymity, said that the least amount being paid by each of the affected patients ranged from N500,000 to N700, 000 depending on the length of their stay at the facility.
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the facility, Ajibola said the matter was “just an internal affair”, which has been redressed and is not worth being reported as news.
Speaking on the development, the Lafenwa Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Enatufe Omoh, said only one of the psychiatric doctors was assaulted, as he sustained varying degrees of teeth bites from the protesting on-admission patients.
The divisional Police Officer stated further that the protesters had disagreements with their handlers at the health facility having been denied some privileges, which included seeing their relations who would take them home after being discharged from the hospital, as well as not being allowed to freely move around.
He, however, denied the death of anybody within the period when the protest lasted
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