Nkem Igweike was just a month into his mandatory one-year service in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Buruku Local Government Area of Benue State when he fell ill on the night of 1 October.
The following morning, a doctor attended to him at the General Hospital, Buruku, and prescribed some drugs. However, the pharmacist was not on duty. “I waited for over two hours in pain,” Mr Igweike recalled.
When the pharmacist eventually arrived, he told the patient that the hospital had only two of the five drugs prescribed in stock.
