But for the signpost with the
inscription, “Multicare Hospital and Women Welfare Centre”, placed in front of
the uncompleted two-storey building at the Omagba phase one area of Onitsha,
nothing suggests that the occupant is involved in health matters.
From the entrance to the building
through the staircase, one is confronted with a blinding smell of drugs and
medical wastes. Inside the rooms, the patients sweated profusely on top of
creaky beds with torn mattresses. For lack of space, some of them lay on the
stretcher, taking infusion by the staircase.
