{"id":2341,"date":"2026-06-23T11:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:03:46","slug":"doctor-loses-best-friend-to-heart-attack-after-hospitals-allegedly-lacked-life-saving-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/2026\/06\/23\/doctor-loses-best-friend-to-heart-attack-after-hospitals-allegedly-lacked-life-saving-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"DOCTOR LOSES BEST FRIEND TO HEART ATTACK AFTER HOSPITALS ALLEGEDLY LACKED LIFE-SAVING EQUIPMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1002831925.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1002831925.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1002831925-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1002831925-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lagos, Nigeria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A grieving doctor has recounted the heartbreaking loss of his best friend, who died after suffering a heart attack and struggling to access critical emergency care in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, his friend called around 4 p.m. complaining of severe chest pain and profuse sweating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suspecting a heart attack, he immediately advised him to go to the hospital. With the help of a neighbour, the man was rushed to a nearby medical facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the hospital reportedly did not have an ECG machine, forcing him to be transferred elsewhere for further evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An ECG later confirmed what the doctor described as a \u201cclassic anterior myocardial infarction (heart attack).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doctor said he instructed medical personnel to administer Aspirin immediately while arrangements were made to transfer the patient to a teaching hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shockingly, the facility allegedly did not have Aspirin available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The patient was eventually taken to the state teaching hospital, where he finally received the medication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite this, the teaching hospital reportedly lacked a functioning cardiac catheterisation laboratory (cath lab), a specialised facility used to perform life-saving procedures for heart attack patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As efforts were being made to transfer him to Lagos for advanced treatment, the patient was placed in an ambulance for the approximately five-hour journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tragically, he died in the ambulance about three hours into the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doctor, who said he had planned to meet his friend in the Netherlands next month, expressed frustration and grief over what he described as systemic failures in healthcare infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow can an entire state not have a functioning cath lab?\u201d he lamented. \u201cNigeria really did me dirty today. I&#8217;m so broken right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos, Nigeria A grieving doctor has recounted the heartbreaking loss of his best friend, who died after suffering a heart attack and struggling to access critical emergency care in Nigeria. According to him, his friend called around 4 p.m. complaining of severe chest pain and profuse sweating. Suspecting a heart attack, he immediately advised him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}