Primus International Super Specialty Hospital has been caught hands in the kitty.
Information available to 247ureports.com through sources at the facility reveals ongoing inhuman and dirty deadly practices at the hospital. Available documentary evidence suggests that Primus International Hospital heavily engages in slave worker importation from India as expatriates. Amongst the expatriates and/or slave workers include medical doctors, surgeons, nurses and other medical practitioners.
The facility is located at Karu, Abuja.
According to a petition drafted by staffs of the hospital – present and past – to the President, Nigeria Medical Association and the Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association, Abuja Chapter, the hospital managers have breached professional ethics and etiquette, and have committed financial fraud.
An excerpt from the petition states “the management brings in Doctors from their home country [India] and make them work for the period of their stay pending the regularization of their Visa for three months and then send them back, either without salaries or two months’ pay holding back one month salary, others have had to go without a dime”.
“No pay slip of any kind is ever given to the Doctors, most of the Nigerian workers and even expatriates there just resumed duty without appointment letters… …to make them invisible on the payroll for inspection by relevant authorities to facilitate their illicit acts”.
On the ill treatment of doctors and patients as veiled slaves, it states “…a conspiracy among the hospital management and some die hard loyalist to exploit Nigeria; they give the minimum treatment they could have given in their country and charge highest. Even when a patient is not fit for surgery the loyalist pass fit for surgery because that is where they make money. Some doctors who have protested to this unethical practice have been sent back without pay and on one occasion a doctor was deported by immigration without his luggage when he demanded for his money before leaving”.
It continued, “Of recent a doctor was sent back to India because he didn’t make much business which is to say he did not recommend enough patients for surgeries … also recall the case of the lady that was supposedly operated for fibroid only to discover they just opened and stitched her back”.
[The petition was received by the President, Nigeria Medical Association and the Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association, Abuja Chapter, on October 8, 2012. It was signed by Veronica Nadiq Shinnaan of Shinnaan & Associates.]
The staffs find themselves in a potent quagmire.
Cursory investigation shows the managers of the hospital to possess extensive reach into the organs of Nigerian government. They have connections in government. The Nigeria Immigration Service is one organ it enjoys a bed relationship with. This allows them the ability to use the threat of forced deportation as tool to silence the grievance of the unpaid expatriate worker.
247ureports.com visited the staff quarters of the medical facility.
Existing infrastructural facilities and environmental upkeep appeared wanting – as the compounds appeared overgrown with weeds and refuse, no access to water and minimal access to electricity.
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