I am still here but the doctor in me has d!ed a long time ago- Nigerian doctor shares on how poor medical care has broken the spirit of many doctors (video)

A Nigerian doctor, Alamin Usman, has shares a heartbreaking video in which he lamented deeply about the poor healthcare system in Nigeria and how it affects so many doctors working in Nigeria.

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In the video which has received so many reactions online, Dr Usman mentioned that the day he recorded the video, he watched the life of a three-year-old slip away just because his mother couldn’t pay N5000 deposit for Oxygen.

‘’N5000! That is the price of a life in Nigeria! I watched him with consultants knowledge in my head and a beggar’s resources in my hands and Malaria doing the job of a firing squad…gone!!! I am just one man doing the job of ten. My heart doesn’t beat anymore, it just thuds., trying to keep up with the 36 hours shift that never seem to end. We ask for Minimum wage and they give us heros speeches while our colleagues collapse and d!e in the cold rooms, from the very exhaustion that we are supposed to treat. Make it make sense”

Dr Usman said he is just tired of trying to make sense of something that doesn’t make sense, make sense.

‘’So you look for the exit. You look at the map and think there must be somewhere elses where my hands could actually matter”

He mentioned that Doctors study for the various examinations like PLAB, USMLE just so they can get a chance to leave Nigeria to a better place where they can practice as doctors, only to be shut out or at best, be given the least opportunities.

‘’You drain your life savings just for a chance to breathe..but the world has grown cold on us. You reach there and they close the gate on your face. ,saying we prioritizing our own now….so a surgeon from Lagos becomes a healthcare assistant in a gray city overseas, wiping spills and cleaning linens just to put the light on…from saving lines to just surviving…what is a healer who has no where else to heal? ‘’

He mentioned that he looks in the mirror now and doesn’t see himself as a doctor but a man who is tired of being the only thing standing between a broken system and a shallow grave.

‘’I used to have this fire in me but now its just ash. I am still here but the doctor in me has d!ed a long time ago”

Watch the video he shared below