The health of nations: Why Nigerian hospital services has become a weapon of mass destruction We are currently experiencing a general process of disintegration through the collapse of our health services; poverty of medical health facilities, absence of skilled personnel but most of all a pervasive contempt of responsibility and accountability of the medical staffs . Hospitals have a mission In most parts of the world to inspire hope by providing the adequate health care to every patient through an integrated clinical practice. It inspires hope through the expression of compassion by treating patients with sensitivity and empathy and most of all by its adherence to ethics and professional responsibility, in brief they heal the sick and give support to the physically afflicted . Nevertheless the prevailing experience in Nigerian Hospitals is a depressing Gloom and doom and tragic denial of its mission. Thus, Ijeoma was taken to the Ante natal ward of Ogbo