Mbabane Government Hospital nurses inhumane

Sir,

Mbabane Government Hospital is the worst in the country and treats its patients like dirt.

I am hoping that the Minister of Health Benedict Xaba is reading this so that he can know the type of people he has in his employ.
Here women are on the receiving end and every day they are subjected to all forms of abuse, especially emotional.

They are made to go through the most humiliating and degrading experiences at a place where one would expect to be treated in the kindest and most compassionate way.
Pregnant women come to the hospital for their routine monthly check ups to be confronted with young angry nurses, a lot of them young enough to be daughters of the people they reprimand.

Immorality

Minor issues are blown out of proportion. Intimidation with intent to inflict fear on patients is the order of the day at the hospital, a deliberate strategy on the part of the nurses in an effort to enable the manipulation of the patients; such utter immorality.
It is a routine that pregnant women get tested for the HIV/AIDS, so that if a woman is positive the means to protect the unborn baby may be effected but the method used to draw blood leaves a lot to be desired.

The most common method for HIV/AIDS testing that you get nowadays is the poking of the middle finger, or any other finger for that matter, and a drop of blood falls on some tester, which should determine the status of the person being tested.
A lot of clinics around Swaziland are using this method and it has proved accurate and effective, but at Mbabane Government Hospital the nurses would alternatively use the old method whereby the vein on the arm is pierced and large amounts of blood drawn out.
But as to what happens to the blood in that tube after the blood has been examined, is a mystery that can only be solved by the nurses and their authorities.

Do the nurses spill it out or do they keep it? If they should keep it shouldn’t they seek permission from the person from whom the blood would have been drawn?

Why do the nurses at Mbabane Government Hospital resort to the old method of drawing blood for the testing of HIV/AIDS?
It is well known that hospitals around the country are in dire need of blood and the nation is asked to donate to the blood bank.
It makes a lot of sense that if the status of an individual is negative that blood is not thrown out but taken to the blood bank and stored, without compensation.

I would say that this is daylight robbery. It is theft and a criminal offence and the charged should be prosecuted and found guilty. All along the ‘donors’, especially women are treated like nobodies.

Threatened

They are scolded as though they are school children, even insulted, and threatened with being ignored if they will not comply.
It is very sad that the nation is subjected to this type of treatment by people who should be submissive in every way, considering that they draw their salaries from the very people they ill treat.

In siSwati we say, kuluma sandla lodla ngaso (biting the hand that feeds). How ironic! To the nurses I want to say that the people you degrade and insult in the hospitals are the people that pay your salaries.
Nurses should be the most compassionate and caring. The problem that we have in this day and age is that people are no longer driven by passion but money.

We know that people are lovers of money because they will not care for the welfare of the people they serve. They will care for the end of the month.
No wonder deaths are reported at alarming rates at Mbabane Government Hospital. The nurses are lazy and have no respect for human life.
A lot of people that have died at Mbabane Government Hospital should not have died in the first place. They have died because they have been deliberately ignored by nurses.

Sensitive

The problem we have is that we have a lot of educated people in very sensitive positions but without love for what they do.
The early missionaries that started care points around the country, which were later turned into hospitals and clinics possessed a quality of passion for the job at hand and compassion for the people they were serving.

Today we have much the opposite in contemptible and dishonouring young educated workers.
If those early pioneers knew of this they would surely turn in their graves. So now it is plain to see that education alone does not bring success and prosperity in life.
Inner qualities such as passion, compassion, respect and authentic love should lead the way for education. Get education but possess positive moral standards.

Vusi Ndlangamandla
Mbabane

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