This is what happens when you let idiots open clinics everywhere. Thanks Buharry for sharing.
 

 Haruna.

 

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From: buharry gassama <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi!
Outrageous story!
Buharry.
 
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FROM FOROYAA
 
Woman delivers on road outside Serekunda Health Centre

Published on Monday, 18 November 2013 16:06. | Written by Samba Bah. 

By  Samba Bah 
A pregnant woman in her late thirties and a resident of Kotu, who was experiencing the pangs of labour, was rushed to the Serekunda Health  Centre on Sunday morning, yesterday, 17 November,  but on arrival she was referred to the Serekunda General Hospital in Kanifing by a senior nurse on duty.  According to an eye witness, the pregnant woman was escorted by her aunt and was told that the Health Centre is not the appropriate place for her to deliver her baby. The source explained that the moment the two left the gate of the Health Center, the woman started screaming and telling her aunt “please help me, the baby is coming”. “So the woman (aunt) held her hand and then asked her to sit down on the tar road, but before she could do so, the baby started to dangle  and a woman nearby had to rush to grab what was coming out with head tie or veil. 
The said woman then took the baby to the nurses inside and returned with a trolley to collect the mother,” the eye witness further explained. The eye witness said the woman was then placed on the trolley and rushed to the Labour Ward where she delivered her second twin baby. 
As the health centre was close to a market place, many women assembled at the gate to express their outrage. They also approached prominent personalities in the area for assistance. 
This reporter met a huge and agitated crowd at the gate of the health facility and state and council security personnel were deployed to diffuse the tension. He found some members of the crowd complaining about the poor service delivery and poor patient nurse relation.  
They expressed their frustration that they are not treated with respect and given the respect due to this great service that women are doing for the nation and human kind. When this reporter approached the two nurses and one of the administrators to explain the circumstances leading to the problem, he was asked to wait for them for some time, but they later declined to speak to the press. One of the nurses did not also allow the press to interview the woman. 
When the police arrived they asked all the non-hospital staff to leave the facility. The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Mr. Omar Sey, later arrived at the scene and after which the woman was taken on board a vehicle to the police station. The Minister of Health was heard saying that the Health Centre is a public facility and it is supposed to satisfy the needs of the patients. 
“This act is complete negligence and therefore everybody should be changed with immediate effect, within twenty-four hours,” the Health Minister was heard saying.  
 
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FROM THE POINT
 
Anger over woman left to deliver outside Serrekunda clinic
africa » gambia
 
Monday, November 18, 2013

There was growing anger yesterday at the Serrekunda clinic, when women stormed the clinic to vent their anger over the attitude of two nurses, who reportedly left a woman to deliver outside of the clinic premises.
According to eyewitness accounts, the visibly angry women stormed the clinic after a pregnant woman who reported to the hospital, was asked by the nurses to go to the main Serrekunda Hospital in Kanifing, as they were taking their breakfast, only for her to give birth to twins just as she left the clinic.
Sources told The Point that the pregnant woman first reported to the clinic in the morning, but was told by the nurses to go to Kanifing, and she refused as she was in pain.
‘‘She went back to the clinic and reported again to the nurses, but they still insisted that she should go to Kanifing,’’ a source added.
According to our sources, when the woman reported for the third time, she was again asked to go to Kanifing, and as she tried to leave the clinic, she gave birth to her first child. This made the women around angry, and they reportedly attacked the nurses.
The second child was delivered after the woman was taken inside the clinic.
Our sources further told The Point that police later came in and took away the two nurses, who at the time of going to press were said to be held at the Kairaba Police Station.
Author: Halimatou Ceesay
                                          
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