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A plastic surgeon performed a fibroid
operation on a woman. This is an
operation on the woman’s womb: the
purview of gynaecologists. He ended
up perforating her bowels and nearly
killing her. She was referred urgently
to a hospital in Garki, Abuja where
doctors struggled to save her.
An obstetrician/gynaecologist who
specialises in delivering babies
decided to perform a mastectomy for
breast cancer. He ended up damaging
the woman’s chest and spreading the
cancer everywhere.
Another gynaecologist in a private
hospital admitted a patient in renal
failure (problem with the kidneys).
Instead of referring him to a specialist
nephrologist, he decides to start doing
dialysis. He would have succeeded in
killing the patient if the family had not
forcibly removed their father to a safe
hospital.
Of course, you know about
optometrists and ophthalmologists
who prescribe useless glasses and
artificial tears (at huge costs) for
patients with poor eye sight due to
brain tumours. The need to extract
the last cash from the patient and
poor quality practice means they
ignore ‘the elephant in the
room’ (symptoms of brain tumour
such as headaches!). If they ‘cannot
see the signs’, how can their patients
see? Many patients go blind while
wearing beautiful glasses! No wonder
optometrists sell you artificial tears!
From drugged pharmacists
Pharmacists now “prescribe”
medicines for conditions such as
malaria, typhoid, and even high blood
pressure. Further, some also set IV
infusions, initiate treatment for
complex gynaecological condition
needing specialist attention and even
now perform invasive minor surgery
in their pharmacies. Many have
become ‘untrained doctors’ therefore
leaving their actual job of
compounding and drug dispensing to
illiterates.
For example, my niece went to a local
chemist in Lagos, to buy Coartem.
Coartem is Artemether Lumenfantrin
(Novartis), an anti-malarial drug. The
chemist boy did not have Coartem
but decided to sell her an alternative,
Cataflam! Now, Cataflam is an anti-
inflammatory agent and analgesic
containing Potassium Diclofenac
(Novartis). It has no anti-malarial
agent in it.
In fact a similar situation happened to
me as well many years ago. I had
gone to another chemist to buy
Chlorpropamide (Diabenese), an oral
sugar control tablet for my diabetic
patient. The chemist said he did not
have that but had Chlorpromazine
(Largactil, a drug for depression and
mental illness). He said that they were
similar drugs since they both began
with ‘Chlor’.
You can imagine my horror when he
said this. Not only will my diabetic
patient not be treated as he is not
getting the prescribed drug, he will
now be dosed into coma with an
antidepressant.
From Indian mercenaries
Seven Indian teams from different
health organisations and hospitals
were in Abuja and Lagos recently
touting for and spiriting patients away
to India. These money changers were
in Nigeria giving medical advice and
opinions, ‘freely’, to a largely
unsuspecting population who were
invited by Airtel SMS messages. Do
they have Medical and Dental Council
of Nigeria (MDCN) certificates to
practice in Nigeria? Did the MDCN
even know they were here? Which
local doctors did they collude with for
monetary gain? But, you are smart,
aren’t you? Otherwise, your liver and
kidney may be at risk!
Warning: You know that there is no
free lunch in Lagos!
From killer herbalists
From Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Rivers,
Anambra, Kano to Kaduna – just to
mention but a few states – there has
been a proliferation of local herbal
business. There is indiscriminate sale
and use of herbal concoctions,
especially touted ‘aphrodisiacs’, in the
country. These drugs have been linked
to the high and increasing incidence
of stroke, kidney and liver f ailure in
Nigeria. These drugs which cure all
diseases, even HIV, are sold openly, all
over the place. The advertising is
sophisticated, on radio, TV and even
more deafening than the call to
morning prayers in our local
mosques. As Sonala Olumhenze said,
‘we conveniently forget that food
poisoning does not mean someone
has put poison in your food. You can
poison yourself’.
And ministers from hell
Few would regard a pastor’s role as a
dangerous calling, but many pastors
in Nigeria are businessmen, fake
doctors and rapists hiding in the
pastoral ministry. Some are wolves in
expensive sheep wool and with huge
bank accounts. Churches and pastors
encourage the sick to come for
‘admission’, vigil, prayers with Olive oil
and ‘holy water’ while stopping their
normal medications. If you do well,
then God has intervened and the
pastor wins heavily. If not, you have
not prayed hard enough. Either way
the pastor is laughing all the way to
the bank. He is living happily ever
after with ‘your portion’.
Friendly Advice: You don’t need
anyone sending messages to God on
your behalf!
And finally, wretched airlines
Dana air crash was not investigated
and no lessons were learnt. Sadly,
another airline crashed last few weeks
further increasing the carnage in the
Nigerian airline industry. The aviation
ministry confirmed that 24 persons
(17 passengers and seven crew
members) were aboard the crashed
Associated Airlines. Only five people
survived the fatal crash. Did you see
the burnt bodies dumped
unceremoniously and shamelessly by
the road side? The dead do not get
any respect in Nigeria and, of course,
with the severely contaminated crash
site, the investigation is another non-
starter.
Please ask yourself this question
today: What is your life worth? The
other question is this: Who is
protecting Nigerians? Because God
must be pretty busy elsewhere.

guy no let naija tire us more before i go take risk go cross sahara desert well living in naija na risk on e own

Nice write up!!!

U wrote this, very nice! Buh after u attacked pharmacy, I felt like blasting you. Are you alright? You were writing on pharmacy and u mentioned 'chemist'. Chemists are not pharmacists, theres a clear distinction, they r not allowed to stock ethical drugs. So If u send ur staff to a chemist instead of a registered pharmacy, then Ure one of the problems of Nigeria. C'mon!!! We are allowed to provide pharmaceutical care services to diabetic and hypertensive patients. Don't tell me you advise everyone that has malaria or typhoid to go to the hospital. Once test results proves it, we can prescribe drugs for that, how is that ur problem? Oh, u want to do all the prescriptions urself, that's ur problem, thats y u keep making mistakes when u av loads of patients crying on ur call. Ure the same person that'll start agitating when I return ur prescriptions. Pharmacists don't carry out minor surgeries and if u find one, then report him to the appropriate authority. We are our own problem! *bangs door*

When will dumb heads know the diff between chemist and pharmacist?
Silly brains

s!s! afrika:
When will dumb heads know the diff between chemist and pharmacist?
Silly brains

no mind am. Even from their names(pharm. and chem.) him still fit use him brain do the needful.

You guys should learn more. Druggist, chemist and pharmacist actually mean the same thing. In commonwealth english, pharmacist is known as chemist while in north america english it is known as druggist. Pls check ur dictionary. It is professional ego that will kill some people.

Samgreguc:
no mind am. Even from their names(pharm. and chem.) him still fit use him brain do the needful.

Laalamed: You guys should learn more. Druggist, chemist and pharmacist actually mean the same thing. In commonwealth english, pharmacist is known as chemist while in north america english it is known as druggist. Pls check ur dictionary. It is professional ego that will kill some people.

are we about to start another e-war? When will you learn, sir?

Hope u ve checked meaning of chemist's, druggist, and pharmacist in ur dictionary. There is no need for i-war or e-war. Just learn more ur dictionary.

s!s! afrika:

are we about to start another e-war? When will you learn, sir?

Laalamed: You guys should learn more. Druggist, chemist and pharmacist actually mean the same thing. In commonwealth english, pharmacist is known as chemist while in north america english it is known as druggist. Pls check ur dictionary. It is professional ego that will kill some people.

while I was doing my ND in S. L. T, we see chemist as those who prepare solutions amongst other bt sha,
Don't worry, pray that you are right, while I check, IF NOT . . . .

Laalamed: You guys should learn more. Druggist, chemist and pharmacist actually mean the same thing. In commonwealth english, pharmacist is known as chemist while in north america english it is known as druggist. Pls check ur dictionary. It is professional ego that will kill some people.

u tried bt u failed. Next time make use of pharmaceutical chemist and not just chemist.

Lalaamed never fails to fall my hand. Kk, pple read chemistry and come out as chemists. Those that run chemist stores can't store ethical drugs. Some others go to pharmacy school and come out as pharmacists. They work in a registered pharmacy if they want. Some pharmacists major (do PhD) in pharmaceutical chemistry, they're pharmaceutical chemists. So there's a clear distinction.

adeola_drg: Lalaamed never fails to fall my hand. Kk, pple read chemistry and come out as chemists. Those that run chemist stores can't store ethical drugs. Some others go to pharmacy school and come out as pharmacists. They work in a registered pharmacy if they want. Some pharmacists major (do PhD) in pharmaceutical chemistry, they're pharmaceutical chemists. So there's a clear distinction.

pointless arguement. pls do not argue over nothing. check this.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacist

Pharmacists, also known as druggists
in North American English and
chemists in Commonwealth English,
are healthcare professionals who
practice in pharmacy, the field of
health sciences focusing on safe and
effective medication use.

u guys dey fall people hand oh. nawah for u.complaining over use of chemist or pharmacist. mtchew.

If u think a pharmacist would dispense cataflam instead of coartem, then Ure of the problems of Nigeria. Ure talking english usage, we r saying it as it is. A pharmacist is not a chemist. Simple!