Nurse at Abuja National Hospital accused of being mentally ill
April 13, 2008 Human rights, News, Psychiatry No CommentsYou can’t hide from psychiatry, even when you’re working as a nurse at a hospital! Psychiatry is like a terrible contagious deadly disease like A.I.D’s and once you come in contact with the virus, you can’t get rid of them.
By MURPHY GANAGANA, Abuja | Daily Sun news
Monday, April 14, 2008
Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Hospital, Dr Olusegun Ajuwon
Doris Chinasa Iyabo Ihuoma, a nurse at the National Hospital Abuja, looked traumatized. She alleged that she had been subjected to severe pains, mental torture and humiliation for several months.
Her present predicament is the result of an alleged gang up against her by the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Hospital, Dr Olusegun Ajuwon, and the top echelon of the hospital.
In a 29-paragraph affidavit deposed to in an Abuja High Court by the 32-year old lady who hails from Mbaise, Imo State, on January 30, 2008, Doris is accusing Ajuwon and the hospital management of labeling her a psychiatric patient.
She is also accusing them of threat to her life, criminal intimidation, unwarranted harassment, gross abuse of her fundamental human rights, invasion of her privacy, attempted murder and sundry sins.
In an oath to sustain her claims against the hospital management team, made available to Daily Sun, the Nursing Officer 11 said her predicament started on the February 23, 2007, when she was summoned to the office of the CMD while on an afternoon duty at the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.
In the office of the CMD, she said, she was asked some questions she considered personal, like where she lived, the direction to her house, and her position in the family. “I thought the Chief Medical Director wanted to help me with my accommodation problem,” she said.
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