My wife applied for NIN date of birth correction and paid 15k via remita since November 2021 and up till now it has not change. What can she do please? This is urgent for her international passport application.

ultron12345:
why won't there be high rate of blindness when optometrists refuse to do what they were trained for, rather, they want to do the work of opthamologists. Only in Nigeria you'll see optometrist carrying out surgery. Silly people, it shall not be well with JOHESU.

Get your facts right with proof before you come here and spill rubbish. People like you is the reason why the country is making no progress especially in the area of healthcare. You speak ill of a profession you know nothing about, discouraging the masses from accessing proper visual health assessment with your infectious mediocrity.

Given, the FG is tasking Optometrists to eradicate avoidable blindness, how many have they employed in our government health facilities? The Optometrist being a primary eyecare practitioner is not even found in our primary healthcare centres (PHCs), so how do they get to the grassroots who ofcourse has d highest prevalence of these avoidable vision imparing conditions.

The very few Optometrists in our government facilities are not allowed to practice maximally the full scope of their profession, all because of professional politics and personal gratifications of som sects.

In a bid to eradicate avoidable blindness, the WHO opined 4 Optometrists to 1 Ophthalmologist but in this country you rarely find more 3 Optometrists in a hospital with 5 or more Ophthalmologists. Paradoxically, in some federal and state hospitals the Ophthalmic nurse is the first point of contact of a patient with an eye condition. And we always scream 'international best practices', who is being shortchanged... the poor masses ofcourse.

On if Nigerian Optometrists are properly trained, try pay a visit to countries like Canada, the UK, the Middle East etc and get me your statistics when you are back.

Don't make a public show of your bigotted opinions Mr.

Peace.