Health as defined by the world health organisation is a state of complete physical, social and mental well being and not just and absent of disease or a diformity. The pain associated with staying healthy today drew this topic and thus took me to the lane of our past when our grand, great grand parents lived their youthful days.
Sure it's an obligation we try to stay healthy but what still plunge me into deep thoughts is the extent at which the various media ensued at making sure we stay healthy make us go through because everyone is poised at making health his priority. Publications and journels uploadable online sells for lots of dollars,public hospitals that are supposed to take healthy leaving to a typical low class nigerian have been deprived of the necessary know - how in terms of man power, equipments, enabling environment and even the cheapest to get which is a proper relationship with patients. This thus make some of the doctors refer u to their personal consulting clinics once you visit a public hospital. In the process of doing that, they await you with bills which even a typical middle class nigerian might need to borrow to upset. The question unanswered now is... Are those public hospitals a medium medical doctors use to advertise their private owned hospitals?, our taxes acrue to payment of their salaries I guess. Why can't a typical layman afford getting proper treatment. Is health now only available to a particular class of Nigerian?
There has never been a problem without a solution. Instead of allowing doctors employed in public health sectors use the hospitals as a channel to meet with public since most people will not directly visit their clinics because of one reason or the other, cost a priority I think the government should set up a team probably named as a whatchdog to checkmate managerial and personnel activities in public hospitals.
Health workers should also be payed adequately and properly. Our minds should also be sensitized and sanitized.
Politicians who prefer patronizing hospitals abroad should also facilitate our health sectors through grants and donation of equipments since it will be faster to access a hospital properly equipped here in Nigeria than traveling to even Niger because of the various processes attached to traveling to a foreign country.
Health is wealth and to ensure that our country stay healthy, we must take cognisance of these few but important facts. Stay healthy, stay wealthy!

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