You know there was a period when the spread of blood borne diseases was at an alarming rate...when you go to a patent medicine dealer for injections, he boils his used syringes and uses it on new patients...little did they know that it was an ineffective way of sterilising materials used in hospitals.

Matter of fact there were public enlightenment programmes like injection safety classes which frowned at such practices...the teaching is you are not even supposed to recap your needles, you discard all sharps not to talk of reusing them.

In order to make this practice feasible, syringes became readily available and very cheap...this was well imbibed by the society and it brought about a significant decline in the rate of transmission of blood borne diseases like HIV, HBV, HCV.


With N500, you could get a carton of syringes (100 syringes with needles), you can afford to waste 10 on a patient and you wont even bother because it is just like N50, no sweats...as of this afternoon, a carton of syringes goes for N4,000...
‪#‎yawa‬#


I cant help but ask,where did we go wrong, what is happening? It is quite understandable that one has to buy a bag of rice for 20k, no wahala, we will manage but when it has gotten our basic medical needs like common syringes...would you be surprised if d hungry desperate patent medicine dealer goes back to the old ways of recycling used syringes so he can make profit?


Now how many people can even afford health care?
Many atimes you are just at work chilling, lets say you are less busy, your surfing the net with your pad, slamming Jidenna 'little bit more' with your Dre beats head phones, having a time of your life...next a surgical or medical emergency is rushed in, almost all of such cases do not have a dime on them but your obliged by your conscience and profession to save lives, so you have no choice...most times such patients get well and can't pay their bills, they stay as long as you allow then to stay, some run away, some stay for months in your hospital, get used to the hospital routine, they know the doctor consulting each day, know the names of all the nurses, become senior patients that welcome new patients and show dem around, friends and family come to visit them, their bed becomes a spot where relatives and friends come to kill tons of gist, some bring food, relax,watch tv and even encroach on other patients bed space.

When you look at the cost of keeping such a patient considering the nuisance plus the bed space he or she is occupying, you mite have no choice but to send the person home at your own loss.


What am I saying in essence, story no suppose enter some kine matter, no matter what, things like our immunisation programs, break in the cold chain because of erratic supply of power, stuff like that make you want lose your mind...


It is painful o,its like diabetes melitus,suffering in the midst of plenty,we are a rich and blessed nation yet the people are so wretched...


Well,to sum it up, lets stay positive,as long as there is life,there is hope...we have worked so hard to get here,lets be optimist no matter how bleak the future looks and keep praying that God should intervene in our pathetic situation!

Dr. Iroha

please tell me you are joking. a carton of syringe for N4,000?

Nobody cares. Initially I used to complain like this also, until I got tired. The fact is, until an issue affects you directly, you may not want to give it a second thought. Its a sad situation. The poor patients cannot really be blamed too much for coming to the hospital with their medical emergencies without a kobo, I mean, where else do you expect them to go? Sit at home and die horrible deaths, or suffer severe debilitating, often permanent complications from illnesses that could easily have been taken care of by our hospitals? The blame is enough to go round, though most of it goes to the government officials and their disappointing implementation of the Nigerian Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), ease of medical tourism and the generalised lackadaisical attitude towards the welfare of the citizens.
For the hospitals most affected I'll suggest:
1. First they should resign to the fact that they are always going to have poor, helpless patients with real, severe medical illnesses but can't pay their bills. Learning to recognize these patient from the outset is a great skill that must be developed. These should be treated & stabilized with the minimum resources possible and sent home as soon as possible to prevent further consumption of scarce resources. This may be taken as part of the hospital's corporate social responsibility (CSR).
2. Billing system should be adjusted to to accommodate for such deficits. A wealthy patient should pay slightly more than a poor one for the same services...
3. Hospitals should diversify, in order to buffer up deficits in one area with profits from other areas. I know of a hospital that also has an external pharmacy, laboratory, supermarket, sachet & bottled water factory, etc. The multiple sources of income they have created makes their services the cheapest in the area. For example an ultrasound scan there is N1,200 while others charge N1,500, while a bag of sachet water is N100 as against N150 being sold by others...
4. last, but definitely not least, the medical profession should consider pushing more of their personnel onto the political stage, especially the legislature and executive area. Have people in the right places to influence things for the interest of the health sector in particular and Nigerians in general...

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Na to switch to herbal b dat na

May GOD help us

Effect are more

That's why self-medication has been on the rise lately. May God heal our economy.

Inflation is still going up....i do not know where we are heading in this Country!

All I could say is may we never have a such an evil man as buhari rule us again,Amin...

It affects every sector o!!!

it is well

Everything thing is gradually degenerating in this country under the watchful eyes of buhari and his goons.

Jediel1:
Na to switch to herbal b dat na

Even for surgeries? You are impossicant

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Zimbabwe is loading. the rest of the populist will soon understand why we want our own country. the northerners are untrained for anything called civilized society or economics and yet they keep dragging power. 21st century people who still refuse polio vaccination and end up deformed turn to beggars in the South, what have we the South have done to deserve this punishments from the North. the leadership should have remained with us from the South. its a shame we still shared the same country and currency with the north. the mistake already cost Nigeria naira depletion.

we now have more naira few goods. just watch it before 2019. N1000 naira value will be N10 naira of today.

NHIS dey.

Heaven help humanity especially Nigerians! !

Ok

Punishment for all those who voted Buhari/APC into government

Did we have a healthcare system before?

Its an appalling situation. Cost of medical healthcare is skyrocketing. Drugs are constantly increasing in price, medical equipments same. How do the common man survive?

Yet some people will be supporting dubious politicians. If things do not improve soon, then am afraid of the life of an average Nigerian.

I pray things get better

It is affecting me badly.

I just pray things get better.


Prices of things have gone up, wages are still the same.



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Very unfortunate situation - meanwhile our president will fly to London for simple ear checks, what happens to the millions of Nigerians who cannot afford to eat not to mention fly

Goodluck Jonathan warned us about this Satan call buhari, but we didn't listen

The situation is pathetic.

If anyone here has a secret time machine that can take us to the future, now is a very good time to bring it out for use.
We need to travel to the year 2019 as soon as possible so that we can correct this mistake.

Hope!
And that's all we've got left; hoping against all odds that a better tomorrow will come!
May we safely get out of this situation in one whole piece, and without losing our minds!
Amen!

Some persons have evil innate characteristics. Buharre is one of such. Just like Trump who I envisage could want to write his name indelibly in world history by creating wa-or

The health sector in Nigeria is nothing but a failure. Dont blame Nigerians going abroad for anything health related because this country sucks so bad when it comes to medicine