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ELff:
I did my Biometrics on the 30th of Sept at Ikeja, got Decision mail 19/10 and no collection mail since then. Who else is in my shoes and how do you plan to proceed from here.

Biometrics: 29/09
Decision mail: 16/10
No collection mail.
Well, I don't know what to do

Please, someone should notify me if there is a free assisted/self service for booking at Ikeja between 21st-25th September

NaijaRoyalty:
Oga shut up , He tested negative some days back see link below

https://t.guardian.ng/news/uch-cmd-tests-negative-for-covid-19/

That was the CMD not chairman of Council

gambia:
The Virus has reactivate it self.

No!! All his Covid-19 tests has been positive. This means he has not recover

kayzee2374:
Interview is still going on

How was the interview?

for those going to Taraba from Ilorin, Harmony Express ( Kwara express) has a vehicle going to Taraba
Another option is to go makurdi via Benue links or Harmony Express and from Makurdi to Jalingo via Benue link

please is there anyone going to Taraba from Ilorin?

slykonvict:
Fmc abeokuta 1st batch of doctors for fmc wil resume by 1st April.. but learnt d 2nd batch names wil be out by may/june

Please, how many doctors are in FMC abeokuta's 1st batch? How many will be in second batch?

Please add me to whatsApp group for medicine. 08066388692

Admin, Pls add me on whatsapp. 08066388692

Whatsapp stopped working on my Lumia 520 immediately after installing the latest update of whatapps. Pls what can I do.

Nearly all aspects of Christmas observance have their roots in Roman custom and religion. Consider the following admission from a large American newspaper (The Buffalo News, Nov. 22, 1984): “The earliest reference to Christmas being marked on Dec. 25 comes from the second century after Jesus' birth. It is considered likely the first Christmas celebrations were in reaction to the Roman Saturnalia, a harvest festival that marked the winter solstice—the return of the sun—and honored Saturn, the god of sowing. Saturnalia was a rowdy time, much opposed by the more austere leaders among the still-minority Christian sect. Christmas developed, one scholar says, as a means of replacing worship of the sun with worship of the Son. By 529 A.D., after Christianity had become the official state religion of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian made Christmas a civic holiday. The celebration of Christmas reached its peak—some would say its worst moments—in the medieval period when it became a time for conspicuous consumption and unequaled revelry.” Consider these quotes from theCatholic Encyclopedia, 1911 edition, under “Christmas”: “Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church…the first evidence of the feast is from Egypt.” Further, “Pagan customs centering around the January calends gravitated to Christmas.” Under “Natal Day,” Origen, an early Catholic writer, admitted, “…In the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his birthday. It isonly sinners(like Pharaoh and Herod) who make great rejoicings over the day in which they were born into this world” (emphasis mine). TheEncyclopedia Americana, 1956 edition, adds, “Christmas…was not observed in the first centuries of the Christian church, since the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons rather than their birth…a feast was established in memory of this event [Christ's birth] in the fourth century. In the fifth century the Western Church ordered the feast to be celebrated forever on the day of the Mithraic rites of the birth of the sun and at the close of the Saturnalia, as no certain knowledge of the day of Christ's birth existed.” There is no mistaking the origin of the modern Christmas celebration. Many additional sources could be cited and we will return to this later. Let's begin to tie some other facts together. It was 300 years after Christ before the Roman church kept Christmas, and not until the fifth century that it was mandated to be kept throughout the empire as an official festival honoring “Christ.” Can Christ Be Honored by Christmas? The most common justification that one will hear regarding Christmas is that people have replaced old pagan customs and intents by asserting that they are now “focusing on Christ.” I have heard many say that they are “honoring Christ” in their Christmas-keeping. The problem is that Goddoes not say this is acceptable to Him! Actually, He plainly commands against it!Keeping ChristmasdishonorsChrist! He considers everything about it to be an abomination! We will soon see why. Christ said, “But invainthey doworshipMe, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” ( Matt. 15:9). Christmas is not a command of God—it is a tradition of men. Christ continued, “Full well yourejectthe commandment of God, that you may keep your owntradition” ( Mark 7:9). Every year, throughout the world, on December 25th, hundreds of millions do just that! We will see that God plainly commands, “Follow not the way of the heathen.” But most people do not fear God, and He allows them to make their own decisions. Human beings are free moral agents—free to obey or disobey God! But woe to those who ignore the plain Word of God! Was Christ Born on December 25th? Christ was born in the fall of the year. Many have mistakenly believed He was born around the beginning of winter—December 25th! They are wrong! Notice theAdam Clarke Commentary, volume 5, page 370, New York edition: “It was custom among Jews to send out their sheep to the deserts about the Passover [early spring], and bring them home at the commencement of the first rain.” The first rains began in early-to-mid fall. Continuing with this same quote: “During the time they were out, the shepherds watched them night and day. As…the first rain began early in the month of March-esvan, which answers to part of our October and November [begins sometime in October], we find that the sheep were kept out in the open country during the whole summer. And as these shepherds had not yet brought home their flocks, it is a presumptive argument that October had not yet commenced, and that, consequently, our Lord was not born on the 25th of December, when no flocks were out in the fields; nor could He have been born later than September, as the flocks were still in the fields by night. On this very ground, the nativity in December should be given up. The feeding of the flocks by night in the fields is a chronological fact…See the quotations from the Talmudists in Lightfoot.” Luke 2:8explains that when Christ was born, “there were in the same country shepherdsabiding in the field, keeping watch over their flockby night.” Note that they were “abiding” in the field. This never happened in December. Both Ezra 10:9-13and the Song of Solomon 2:11show that winter was the rainy season and shepherds could not stay on cold, open fields at night. Numerous encyclopedias plainly state that Christ was not born on December 25th! TheCatholic Encyclopediadirectly confirms this. In all likelihood, Christ was born in the fall! A lengthy technical explanation would prove this point. Since we now know that December 25th was nowhere near Christ's actual birthdate, where did the festival associated with this date come from? Now read this quote under “Christmas”: “In the Roman world, the Saturnalia (December 17) was a time of merrymaking and exchanging of gifts. December 25 was also regarded as the birthdate of the Iranian mystery god Mithra, the Sun of Righteousness. On the Roman New Year (January 1), houses were decorated with greenery and lights, and gifts were given to children and the poor. To these observances were added the German and Celtic Yule rites when the Teutonic tribes penetrated into Gaul, Britain and central Europe. Food and good fellowship, the Yule log and Yule cakes, greenery and fir trees, gifts and greetings all commemorated different aspects of this festive season. Fires and lights, symbols of warmth and lasting life, have always been associated with the winter festival, both pagan and Christian” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., vol. II, p. 903). A final quote about the selection of December 25th as the birthdate of Christ is necessary. Note an article inThe Toronto Star, December 1984, by Alan Edmonds, entitled, “We owe a lot to Druids, Dutch”: “The Reformation cast a blight on Christmas. By then, of course, clever ecclesiastical politicians had adopted the Pagan mid-winter festival as the alleged birthdate of Jesus, of Nazareth, and thrown in a few other Pagan goodies to make their takeover more palatable.” December 25th was not selected because it was the birth of Christ or because it was even near it. It was selected because it coincided with the idolatrous pagan festivalSaturnalia—and this celebration must be carefully examined. In any event, we donotknow the exact date of Christ's birth. While God certainly could have made it known, He chose to hide it from the world's eyes!
http://realtruth.org/articles/169-ttooc.html

Written By: Christina Johnson Physicians at UC San Diego Health System have removed a 60-pound tumor from a man’s leg without the use of blood transfusions. More than half the patient’s blood was drained from the massive growth and recirculated back into his body during the four-hour procedure. The tumor's dry weight, 24 hours after the surgery, was about 58 pounds. “My leg feels like a feather,” said Orange County resident Matthew Qureshi, who is in rehabilitation and expected to regain full function of his leg. “I can’t wait to wear regular pants again.” Prior to the surgery, Qureshi could only fit in custom-made pants, tailored by a seamstress friend to accommodate the mass on his thigh which had, over the course of several years, become enormous. Qureshi was suffering from a pseudosarcoma, a rare non-cancerous overgrowth of soft-tissue, often mistaken for a cancerous sarcoma. There have been only 42 reported cases of the condition worldwide. Pseudosarcomas can be caused by the genetic disorder neurofibromatosis. They can also, as in Qureshi’s case, arise without an identifiable explanation. “We initially thought the tumor was a complication associated with lymphedema (swelling of the lymph nodes), which he had in his lower leg,” said Matthew’s mother, Anita Qureshi. “We were looking for someone to do compression bandaging on his thigh. But as the swelling grew bigger and bigger, it became untreatable.” “None of the doctors knew what it was,” she said. “Eventually, they said it was too big to remove. It was a horrible situation. I could see the tumor growing bigger by the week. He was at the point I could not fit him in my car anymore.” To walk, he had to transport his tumor on a platform attached to his electric scooter. After several years of looking for a surgeon who would perform the complex procedure, Quereshi was finally referred to Anna Kulidjian, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at UC San Diego Health System, who specializes in soft-tissue orthopedic oncology surgeries. Kulidjian agreed to treat the 37-year-old Qureshi and assembled a team of UC San Diego Health System specialists who could remove the tumor safely without blood transfusions, which Qureshi refuses for religious reasons. Besides herself, the team consisted of plastic surgeon Marek Dobke, MD, an expert in reconstruction and surgical flap techniques, and an anesthesiologist, Bradley Hay, MD. Together, they developed a procedure for Qureshi’s extraordinarily rare situation. First, the tumor was positioned so that the surgeons could see and access the area of separation. This was done by stabilizing the tumor with a metal rod and suspending the mass above the operating table. In this position, gravity drained blood from the tumor into the leg, reducing blood loss during the operation. A self-transfusion was implemented, in which two units of Qureshi’s blood were extracted prior to surgery and stored for use later. Two units of saline solution mixed with albumin were infused back into him to re-establish his original blood volume and reduce the effective hemoglobin loss during the operation. This procedure is known as isovolumetric hemodilution. During the surgery, blood draining from the tumor was also captured, sent through a cell-washing blood recovery system and re-transfused into the patient. Hay said that more than one liter of blood was salvaged in this way. In the last two years, Kulidjian and colleagues have treated three patients with pseudosarcomas, two in the last three months. The other patients received blood transfusions and had smaller tumors. “We are becoming a referral center for the procedure and I am glad we have the expertise to help these people,” Kulidjian said. “But the message we are trying to get out is that you should see a doctor immediately if you have any soft-tissue mass that is bigger than a golf ball.” A month after his lifesaving surgery, Qureshi, who has mild Down’s syndrome, can again walk without assistance and his hemoglobin levels are normal. He is currently in physical therapy to further improve leg strength, coordination and balance and visits UC San Diego Health System weekly to have his compression bandages rewrapped and his general health and recovery monitored. For Qureshi’s mother each week that goes by with her son getting better is nothing short of amazing. “The first time I saw his leg without that tumor, I lost it,” she said. “I cried and cried. I had stopped hoping for the best. It has been a miracle.”
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/features/Pages/2014-12-10-pseudosarcoma-surgery-without-transfusion.aspx

Written By: Christina Johnson Physicians at UC San Diego Health System have removed a 60-pound tumor from a man’s leg without the use of blood transfusions. More than half the patient’s blood was drained from the massive growth and recirculated back into his body during the four-hour procedure. The tumor's dry weight, 24 hours after the surgery, was about 58 pounds. “My leg feels like a feather,” said Orange County resident Matthew Qureshi, who is in rehabilitation and expected to regain full function of his leg. “I can’t wait to wear regular pants again.” Prior to the surgery, Qureshi could only fit in custom-made pants, tailored by a seamstress friend to accommodate the mass on his thigh which had, over the course of several years, become enormous. Qureshi was suffering from a pseudosarcoma, a rare non-cancerous overgrowth of soft-tissue, often mistaken for a cancerous sarcoma. There have been only 42 reported cases of the condition worldwide. Pseudosarcomas can be caused by the genetic disorder neurofibromatosis. They can also, as in Qureshi’s case, arise without an identifiable explanation. “We initially thought the tumor was a complication associated with lymphedema (swelling of the lymph nodes), which he had in his lower leg,” said Matthew’s mother, Anita Qureshi. “We were looking for someone to do compression bandaging on his thigh. But as the swelling grew bigger and bigger, it became untreatable.” “None of the doctors knew what it was,” she said. “Eventually, they said it was too big to remove. It was a horrible situation. I could see the tumor growing bigger by the week. He was at the point I could not fit him in my car anymore.” To walk, he had to transport his tumor on a platform attached to his electric scooter. After several years of looking for a surgeon who would perform the complex procedure, Quereshi was finally referred to Anna Kulidjian, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at UC San Diego Health System, who specializes in soft-tissue orthopedic oncology surgeries. Kulidjian agreed to treat the 37-year-old Qureshi and assembled a team of UC San Diego Health System specialists who could remove the tumor safely without blood transfusions, which Qureshi refuses for religious reasons. Besides herself, the team consisted of plastic surgeon Marek Dobke, MD, an expert in reconstruction and surgical flap techniques, and an anesthesiologist, Bradley Hay, MD. Together, they developed a procedure for Qureshi’s extraordinarily rare situation. First, the tumor was positioned so that the surgeons could see and access the area of separation. This was done by stabilizing the tumor with a metal rod and suspending the mass above the operating table. In this position, gravity drained blood from the tumor into the leg, reducing blood loss during the operation. A self-transfusion was implemented, in which two units of Qureshi’s blood were extracted prior to surgery and stored for use later. Two units of saline solution mixed with albumin were infused back into him to re-establish his original blood volume and reduce the effective hemoglobin loss during the operation. This procedure is known as isovolumetric hemodilution. During the surgery, blood draining from the tumor was also captured, sent through a cell-washing blood recovery system and re-transfused into the patient. Hay said that more than one liter of blood was salvaged in this way. In the last two years, Kulidjian and colleagues have treated three patients with pseudosarcomas, two in the last three months. The other patients received blood transfusions and had smaller tumors. “We are becoming a referral center for the procedure and I am glad we have the expertise to help these people,” Kulidjian said. “But the message we are trying to get out is that you should see a doctor immediately if you have any soft-tissue mass that is bigger than a golf ball.” A month after his lifesaving surgery, Qureshi, who has mild Down’s syndrome, can again walk without assistance and his hemoglobin levels are normal. He is currently in physical therapy to further improve leg strength, coordination and balance and visits UC San Diego Health System weekly to have his compression bandages rewrapped and his general health and recovery monitored. For Qureshi’s mother each week that goes by with her son getting better is nothing short of amazing. “The first time I saw his leg without that tumor, I lost it,” she said. “I cried and cried. I had stopped hoping for the best. It has been a miracle.
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/features/Pages/2014-12-10-pseudosarcoma-surgery-without-transfusion.aspx

Surgeons at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center removed a 60-pound tumor from a man’s leg in a life-saving procedure that has never been done before. Matthew Qureshi, who has Down syndrome, first noticed the tumor growing on his thigh eight years ago, but doctors reportedly would not operate on it because Quershi is a Jehovah’s Witness and therefore does not believe in blood transfusions, KGTV reported. The 37-year-old was forced to use a rigged Razor scooter after walking became impossible, according to the report. Quershi’s mother, Anita, consulted surgeons at Moores Cancer Center where they developed a process to remove the tumor without needing any blood transfusions. The team of surgeons suspended the tumor from the ceiling and used gravity to keep blood from leaving his body, KGTV reported. They now plan to try it on two more patients with smaller tumors. “The first time I actually saw his leg with that thing gone … I was beyond happy,” Anita told KGTV. The tumor was not cancerous.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/12/23/doctors-remove-60-pound-tumor-without-using-blood-transfusion/

About a week and some days ago, an American woman was permitted by the law court to end her life because she does not want to continue to suffer from to her illness and she was "MERCIFULLY" killed by her doctors. This sinful act did not create any upheaval neither did it receive condemnations but was viewed as a personal decision. Why then should people hypocritically condemn another person's decision which is based on firm conviction and faith?
Acts 15:29 states that Christians should abstain from fornication, from blood, from things sacrificed to idols, from things strangled BUT some people just decide that fornication, idolatry are wrong but not abstinence from blood.

Some individuals sign DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) form and state clearly that in events of certain medical emergency such as Cardiac arrest, coma et cetera that the medical team MUST NOT attempt any resuscitation. These decisions are Dignified ' and respected by the medical team and patient's legal representative and do not cause any outcry by medical personnels, media or a third party.
so if an individual decide to accept all forms of resuscitation apart from the use of allogeneic blood, such person's decision should also be respected by care givers, the media or a thirty party. It is a Personal decision and should not cause any form of noise or outcry from any body.

The health minister is a disgrace to the medical profession. He is full of lies and misinformation. He once said a Nigerian developed Nano-silver Without mentioning the scientist's name. Haba ...she is in fact an American. He also said Resident doctors were suspended not sacked...Haha. And now this one

Fesisko: Don't even know what to say.I thought they said she was discharged hail n healthy? anyway, may your soul rest in perfect peace. May God almighty gives your family the fortitude to bear the painful loss.

it is really painful. By the way, what is the problem with the minister of health. The minister is always 'eating' his word really annoying

splasher: The question again if you did not get it. MBBS holders do not individually undergo separate research work. What they do is, they go in groups to villages and write observational reports of whatever. You must individually through separate work prove your prowess in research which the MBBS holders do not. The queation is, do the MBBS holders do "group project work in Com. Health. Yes or No.

Yes. Must a research be done by one person? No, it depends on the type of research, scope of research, resources require, knowledge base etc. Many medical research cut across my specialties and hence each individual or specialist contribute accurately to the research. Lastly, a rural posting report may not be the same as the final research work depending on the institution.

splasher: It is a group project work and not an individual thesis work. A project is different from a theisis. In a thesis there must be a thesis and an Antithesis (What is now called a null and an alternate hypothesis). There must be something you are trying to contribute to the body of knowledge. It must be on an individual platform and not a group work. Why only community health? What of other areas of medicine)

A thesis is a statement which is a key element to a good research paper. Research is a kind of project 'cos every research has its scope of work, time-line and resources. That is why research work is interrelate with a project. In fact every research work works on basis of a well devise project plan. Many medical researches are group research with each person contributing base on area of specialty and experience. An undergraduate medical research is done by 3 or 4 students at 500l or 600l and this is diff from a rural posting/community base experience and services write up done @200l and 300l (by about 15 students in my sch) The principle of team work and interdependence in health care is inculcated hence the reason for the group write up and the final research work @500 or 600l(by 3 students in my school). The undergraduate medical research work is usually done in community health 'cos the specialty covers majority of the specialties in medicine and offers a wide area for research for an undergraduate who has not decided on an area of specialization

dakotchic: @anergy. Please educate yourself ok! M.B.B.S is equivalent to M.D. Talking about global best practices, no allied health worker claims or tries to deceive patients that they r doctors, because they r happy being who they are!

I did not even mention MBBS or MD in my post. I only corrected a misconception that medical student don't write research work b/4 graduation.

splasher: DOCTORS AGAIN-You can be a called a doctor in two ways 1. By Nomenclature. Anybody who cares for a patient and is suitably qualified to care for that patient. eg medical doctors, nurses, pharmacist, medical scientist,optometrists, dentist etc provided you care for a patient. This is the dictionary definition. 2. By qualification. When your certificate carries an appellation of DOCTOR by a recognized institution. By this our medical boctors have no right to call themselves doctors since their certificate carries the appellation Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery. The word DOCTOR comes from the root word teacher, this means you must have been proven to have a doctrine(by the way of a thesis). Our present medical doctors do not carry out a research thesis before graduation so CANNOT BE CALLED DOCTORS by qualification, unlike in the US where they award MD. Why all this story? There is nothing special about medical doctors that make them think that other professions must be downgraded because the government positioned them as the leader of the health care team. Methink because if this appellation called DOCTOR that makes them think they are special. Since they are doctors by nomenclature, pharmacists, medlab, nurses etc can be called doctors and deserve the same recognition as our dear medical doctors. Only Optometrists and pharmacists(UNIBEN) are doctors by qualification and nomenclature.

You are wrong. A medical student is required to carry out a research work/ project b/4 becoming a medical doctor. In many institutions, the research work is done in a Public/Community Health specialty. Pls, alway try to get your facts right.