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7 Ways Nigerians And The Health Care System Are Killing Themselves by ghostfacekillar(m): 9:44pm On Nov 21, 2017 |
My sister is a nurse, I have always wanted to do this post but
has been postponing it. But something happened some 4 days
ago. A friend of ours died of high blood sugar. She’s just 25
and recently finished her NYSC. Many of us were unhappy
because this death could have been averted.
All that made my sister advising that we should take care of
our health. Not every time we blame the devil but we are
the cause of our misfortune. So I am doing this so we all can
be careful, learn so we can live a better life.
Here are seven (7) ways Nigerians and the health care
system are killing themselves.
Wrong diagnosis : This is general problem but in the case of
Nigerian doctors and hospitals they get away with it easily.
Few years ago a 5 year old boy was diagnose of HIV. Na so
them begin treat this small pikin for about 1 year and the
child was not getting better. Not until they went to another
hospital and they found out it was just malaria parasites.
Thank God the child has grown stronger. And the first
hospital that diagnosed the child for HIV is University of
Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH)
Wrong diagnosis has killed so many Nigerians and still
killing.
Inability of patients to Confirm diagnosis in another
hospital : Nigerian health care system is boring, poor and the
Government is not willing to do much. Please try and
confirm diagnosis from 2 or 3 different hospitals before
concluding. Na so Federal medical center for Asaba (FMC)
diagnose my aunty of tumor in her leg. The leg was seriously
swollen and paining her. The drugs given to her was not
working and she couldn’t go to work or move for 3 weeks.
Not until my sister who is a nurse asked her to run another
test in another hospital for another ailment which she did
and they discovered it was just a slight ailment which they
began the treatment. Now she’s alright now and has
resumed work.
If you are diagnose of any ailment in a hospital, try and run
another test in another hospital to confirm.
Wrong prescription : Many people have died of wrong
prescription. Treating Typhoid fever with tuberculosis drugs.
We have heard of many cases where drugs prescribed by
doctors to patients end up damaging and causing internal
problems for the patient.
Self-medication : In as much sometimes self-medication could
be cheaper and helpful, there are times it brings about
damage that cannot be able to reverse. Am sure some of us
have heard cases of people who had an ailment, they refused
going to the hospital, rather opt to self-medicate and end up
hurting their health. If you are sick or you notice any form
of symptoms, abeg waka go hospital.
Carelessness and Carefree Attitude : So many of us are so
carefree with our health that we don’t care what goes into
our mouths and stomachs. The lady friend i mentioned
earlier that died. She had been told by doctor that she was
diabetic. According to what I learnt, she rarely goes for
checkup, no medication, she eats any damn food and she’s
fat. Her blood sugar even rose to 500 according to test few
minutes before her death.
We all need to be conscious of our health and what goes into
our system.
Nigerian Poor Health Care System : We all will agree that
we don’t have a good health care system. Most of our
politicians don’t treat themselves here in Nigeria. They go
abroad to do so. So na we ordinary Nigerians go dey use the
system. In most developed countries, it’s a rare case to hear
that a woman died while delivering. But in Nigeria it’s just
so common. When a woman is about to deliver, na so fear go
dey catch everybody for the family. Nigeria has a very poor
health care system.
Poor emergency handling : Nigerian hospitals, doctors are
too slow, poor in handling emergency cases. A patient who is
dying is brought into the hospital, sometimes it will even
take hours them to start treating the patient. Sometimes the
patient sef go don die sef before them go respond. For Christ
sake this is an emergency situation, attend to patients fast.
Presently, the family of the lady that died of high blood
sugar are trying to sue the doctor of the first hospital they
took her to. The late girl was still alive for some hours when
they took her there. I don’t know how they said it that the
doctor was unable to attend to her. Nigerian doctors and
hospitals should attend to emergency cases with swift and
emergency. |
Re: 7 Ways Nigerians And The Health Care System Are Killing Themselves by RaaGhu: 6:44am On Nov 22, 2017 |
Wonderful write-up. But a punctuation here and a comma there could make this piece a beauty to behold. Just saying! |
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