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Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 5:11pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
MissMeiya:Walk away in shame attention seeker. Notorious entity, u av d same trend on evri posts u mention, get 2 see d brighter side of life n stop berating people u dnt evn knw, it wunt get u anywhr, nl is som1's means of income wats urs? |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 5:13pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
prettyboi1989: OMG. OMG. You spelled out your words in their entirety! I'm really proud of you. 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 5:14pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
prettyboi1989: Ok, never mind. I'm disappointed. |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by back2sender: 5:31pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
Mynd44:I have never agreed with sincere Nigerian comments but in this case he is on point, why? 1. Sawyer was a Liberian 2. He was coming in from Liberia 3.he was very sick Tis were enough reasons 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 6:10pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
ceejayluv: lol! Has Nigeria scored on the rebound? The illustration doesn't fit. It is not even about scoring. It is about dying. The fact remains that the OP is right. This could have been averted 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by ceejayluv(m): 6:33pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
Poznan:"scoring" in this case is analogous identifying and containing the spread of the virus which so far has been a tremendous success. |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 7:35pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
Madam, Please check yourself and stop misrepresenting the facts. You need to quote a thread that I have ever tribalised or de-railed. If anyone is derailing this thread it is you MissMeiya: @ topic Just know that there is a psychological warfare being waged on your minds to make your fearful and panicked. I believe that the ultimate goal is for the US to test dangerous experimental drugs on African population . I make a prediction the US would eventually send an experimental vaccine like ZMAPP the vaccine is what will kill many people but the deaths will be blamed on Ebola. Ultimately they may approve the drug and Africans will be endangering their lives taking the vaccine and in any case they will be profitting form the fake drug by selling it to us. |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 8:19pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
Mynd44: The OP actually expected the primary response team at a hospital to start asking for the travel history of a patient? Travel history and history of contact with someone with a contagious illness are cardinal and standard clerking protocol that even a 4th year medical student knows. It will shock you to know that if you present in any hospital now with fever, joint pain and a sore throat, you will be asked the following questions; 1- any recent contact with person(s) with similar symptoms in the last 21 days? 2- any contact or ingestion of bush meat or bats in the last 21 days ? 3- any recent travels to any of the west African countries OR LAGOS in the last 3 weeks ? These are standard questions that need be asked or else you are ASHES. 2 Likes |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by DollyParton1(f): 8:42pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
Mynd44: Yes!!! That is one of the important components of a thorough medical history taking. 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by mamarika: 9:07pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
gmyguy:for your objective reasoning,may God bless you, real good !!!the op wasn't criticising anyone but saying,we can do better.both govt Απϑ the nation as a whole.we emergency proactiveness Απϑ preparedness.our medics needs τ̅☺ apply more professionalism Απϑ versatility in their practice!thank you . 2 Likes |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Beync(f): 9:15pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
MissMeiya:no doubt the authorities failed but then all patrick actions say much about the kind of human he was. Making contact with everyone, urinating at the nurses, removing the string thereby letting his blood splash on everything is enough to tell that he really meant to get the virus across. What kind of a human wants innocent people to die along with him? He was evil |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 11:15pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
mamarika: for your objective reasoning,may God bless you, real good !!!the op wasn't criticising anyone but saying,we can do better.both govt Απϑ the nation as a whole.we emergency proactiveness Απϑ preparedness.our medics needs τ̅☺ apply more professionalism Απϑ versatility in their practice!thank you .yes, i am on the same page. and same argument. |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 11:18pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
Beync: no doubt the authorities failed but then all patrick actions say much about the kind of human he was. Making contact with everyone, urinating at the nurses, removing the string thereby letting his blood splash on everything is enough to tell that he really meant to get the virus across. What kind of a human wants innocent people to die along with him? He was evilpeople do all sorts of irrational things when they are sick. especially a rapidly killing disease that takes away life, preventing him from saying good bye to his loved ones, children, one of whom is 1 year old. Can you even begin to imagine how helpless he was. Anybody in his shoes could have been just as hysterical 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Phame: 11:24pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
naptu2:must u quote everythin like a novice? 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Phame: 11:30pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
Sincere9gerian: Can the moderators help move this thread to the health section?what happened to u? U ar making sense today. 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by thegoodjoehunt3(m): 12:49am On Aug 27, 2014 |
Poznan:He was tested for Ebola before leaving for Nigeria. He knew he was incubating but he made sure he was not suspected. I still commend the Medical staffs for detecting it. |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by LordReed(m): 2:53am On Aug 27, 2014 |
Hindsight is always 20/20 vision. It is so easy to critique all the "levels of failure" when in fact this is the reality all airports and nations face. Recently an artiste died after having conditions exacerbated by her flight, I didn't hear the OP critique the medical attention she got. I am sure in his/her mind it was her fault for flying with a bad medical condition. Everyday people carrying HIV/AIDS and hepatitis travel from one point on the globe to another but does the OP's seemingly fantastic hindsight even register this problem we all are living with? No of course not, Ebola is more sensational and epidemic than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis. |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by obynaDmob(m): 7:14am On Aug 27, 2014 |
I believe clerking a patient involves asking about his nationality,place of residence e.t.c, I have to agree with the op on this!! 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Beync(f): 7:26am On Aug 27, 2014 |
gmyguy: people do all sorts of irrational things when they are sick. especially a rapidly killing disease that takes away life, preventing him from saying good bye to his loved ones, children, one of whom is 1 year old. Can you even begin to imagine how helpless he was. Anybody in his shoes could have been just as hystericalthere's no excuse for his actions, the honourable thing to have done was to hav submitted himself to the liberian authority and die honourably. then he would have had the opportunity to bid goodbye to his 1yr old. Looks at how many lives we lost due to his craziness , how many died out of drinking salt? How many developed ulcer, hbp, etc fear and panic every where? Insane sawyer |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by adconline(m): 8:14am On Aug 27, 2014 |
prettyboi1989:Stop wasting your MB. You are not making any sense! 2 Likes |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by adconline(m): 8:21am On Aug 27, 2014 |
Op is on point. Naija had no designated quarantine facility until Patrick Sawyer came. No testing lab for Ebola. Patrick Sawyer's test was sent to Sierra Leone while he was still infecting people. Could you image if we had the lab in Naija, level of contact with primary and secondary suspects should have been contained. 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 6:52pm On Aug 27, 2014 |
adconline:poor man u still in d age of mb? get a life, i dnt use mb dummy. if u cant make any sense out of wat i wrote den u are too dumb to understand abbreviations and intelligent posts, wonder whr u 4rm, commoner. by d way ow does my post affect ur family or ur life? ow does my post affect u n ow has it become a concern of urs? u nid 2 get a life n stop lookn 4 cheap attention in a page viewd by thousands |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Simonet: 7:33pm On Aug 27, 2014 |
Sincere9gerian: Nigeria was free of Ebola until the late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American, imported Ebola into Nigeria on July 20. Mr Sawyer was reported to have been terribly ill on his flight and was rushed to the First Consultant Hospital Obalende, Lagos, where he was diagnosed as having Ebola. He died on July 24. The failure is primarily the President's and Health Minister's!! We have had at least 2 months before Sawyer to prepare an action plan for Ebola. Weren't they reading the news on CNN etc? Now the same Health Minister is saying we have overcome Ebola! How is he so sure of that?! DOES WHO AGREE? |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Simonet: 7:36pm On Aug 27, 2014 |
Beync: there's no excuse for his actions, the honourable thing to have done was to hav submitted himself to the liberian authority and die honourably. then he would have had the opportunity to bid goodbye to his 1yr old. Looks at how many lives we lost due to his craziness , how many died out of drinking salt? How many developed ulcer, hbp, etc fear and panic every where? Insane sawyer The Sawyer scenario was bound to happen sooner or later! We did not prepare. PERIOD!! 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by adconline(m): 12:30pm On Aug 29, 2014 |
prettyboi1989:What a display of sophisticated idiocy brought to you by failed Naija education system. 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 1:27pm On Aug 30, 2014 |
adconline:Lamentator go n get a life u heard! U wunt get paid 4 berating my post neither will it feed u, so y dnt u find a solutions 2 ur problems than blaming the government for ur serial failures. U sayn nigerian education system has faild, was is nt d system dat trainned ur parents and got them employed? Now u managed 2 av a phone that is browsing u now coming here to say nonsense, imagine if ur parents dint go to scul it wud be a different scenario. Since u ur brothers n sisters and parents got trainned in the failed nigerian education system, it means u, ur brothers n sisters n ur parents are elements of sophisticated idiocy. |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by laudate: 1:38am On Sep 01, 2014 |
phantom: Late Patrick Sawyer was rushed to First Consultant Hospital, Lagos, on arrival. It was reported that Sawyer was initially assessed and treated for malaria, hepatitis, etc. The assessment and diagnosis of Ebola came later. The junior and senior doctors that managed Sawyer at the First Consultant Hospital FAILED at this level. With history of acute fever (plus other symptoms) and recent arrival from Liberia, the diagnosis at presentation ought to have been ebola viral disease (EVD) UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE. I agree with you. If it was a public hospital, they would have given Sawyerr anti-malaria tablets, painkillers & vitamin C, and discharged him without any delay. For First Consultants to have made the diagnosis of Ebola, they deserve commendation ! |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by laudate: 1:56am On Sep 01, 2014 |
MissMeiya: Thank you! "Rule 21. Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation. This is clearly listed as part of the posting rules, but the average Nigerian believes that laws or rules are meant to be broken. I have said this before in another thread: "Moderators should delete any post that contains more than 3 abbreviations." It is not so hard to write clear, lucid sentences in simple English. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Ebola: Nigeria's Healthcare System Failed Us by Nobody: 2:38am On Sep 01, 2014 |
laudate: It makes it easy to spot the uneducated ones though so you can give them a wide berth. |
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