₦airaland Forum

sleek82:
The worst experience i ever had was when my brother whom was diagnosed of intramedullary sponal tumor was set to have a surgery and during the whole bookings and all, his blood sample was taken to determine his blood group which was said to be (B-), a rare blood group... I was told to get 3 people to donate a pint of blood each so as to replenish the blood to be given by the blood bank....i was practically held at ransome (because i was told they wont process the blood if we dont donate)...we donated the blood, only to be told there were no (B-) blood group and i need to go buy blood (this was a day to surgery ooo) i bought the blood and went back to the blood bank for processing...then i was told i have to pay for the processing and they dont even think they can collect the blood i brought from an external lab I wouldnt have gotten angry if not for the lab attendant's complete insolence (he said is it his fault that everything is like that?).......i ended up not paying anything for processing after i finished talking sense into his head...it was his supervisor that came to intervene!

not lab attendant but med lab scientist or technician.....lab attendants don't work in hospital pls....

pinkyliceous:
What's O rh?

O Rhesus D negative is a blood type or group dat is rare and can be dangerous for women

sleek82:
you are very right but sometimes the test is just the saving grace between life and death

yes.....that's y medical laboratory science is the backbone of medicine . still , its not given the respect it deserved

destino24:
Ok, so in freshman year, we were supposed to get the new biometric ID card, and we were to provide our Blood Group among other informations.

Na so I go one reputable hospital here in Enugu for Medical Test. They took my blood and told me to come back the next day for the result. Came back the next day for result and was told I was O+.

Fast forward, 5 years later in 500 level. I had a little medical issue and I had to run a couple of tests of which blood grouping was part of. Surprisingly, my Blood Group had "Changed" to A+. I had to run the test at 2 other different Labs, all came up with A+.

Meanwhile, on my School ID Card, it says O+.

Imagine a situation, maybe an accident, of which i might require a blood transfusion, and then they take a look at the ID Card, and conclude my GRP was O+.

Na so person go just take die

It may be false positive result due to expired blood group anti Sera or due to temperature......WHO standard is that a blood group of an individual is said to be true if two or three out of three labs have the same result.......

apeleone:
five years ago wen i was pregnant wit my first child during d antenatal registeration process saw d lab result that I was O rh negative and I am positive had to see d medical lab scientist another test was conducted n it came out positive,we have to always double check wat ever result we're given in most hospitals

thanks for using the full name at bolded

mezcri:
damn... mosquitoes are bad parasites. thank God most of those diseases are not common as such in our country

mosquitoes are not parasites but vectors

chaberry:
And you were equally present during his birth

My grand dad told me before he died

chaberry:
Where is his birth certificate?
Seriously, that man don't look 99 to me:| or do they now have Monarch age, just as in football age

that's his true age.......Am from Olomu.....

sameer1212:
99?
The man look 70 though.

He is 99........He is my king......

I have watched with dismay the show of power
and the tussle for leadership in the Nigeria health
sector. I have heard and read the point of view
of the physician, the dentist, the medical lab
scientist, the nurse, the pharmacist, the
radiographer and the physiotherapist. I have also
taken my time to study the curriculum of these
medical professions. They are heavily loaded. To
be sincere, none is easy. I have observed the
students in these professions while in their
different fields of training;The stress they
undergo, the project they present at
undergraduate level and have come to realise
that of the professionals listed above, Medical
lab science students and pharmacy students
engage in the most tasking, time consuming and
financially demanding projects. I stand to be
corrected.

In the curriculum of these professions, Medical
Lab Science, Nursing, radiography and medicine/
surgery, I find pathology as an integral part of
their training. That is to say pathology is a
subset of these professions and not a profession
in itself. Should any of the professionals with
pathology as a subset of their training decide to
advance their training in pathology, such a
professional becomes a pathologist as evidenced
in many non physicians who are members and
fellows of the Royal College of Pathology in the
United Kingdom which is by far superior to any
pathologist here in Nigeria. I shudder and grin
with disbelief when a physician says Medical
Laboratory Science is a branch of pathology. I
think this big lie must stop!!!
Nigerians have been hoodwinked to believe that
the physician is the alpha and omega of
healthcare in Nigeria. I beg to disagree. Many
cases abound where nurses have been the
saving grace of many patients. Physicians many
a time would send patients with physical
disabilities to the orthopaedic surgeon knowing
fully well the best professional for such condition
is the physiotherapist. The patients end up
spending all his life savings on the wrong
professional only to be dumped in the
physiotherapy department when their finances
have been exhausted.
Often cases, patients complain that they have
visited hospitals for certain cases and the
physician could not and has not discovered the
cause of their ailment. Many then attribute their
ailments to spiritual causes. But, some, on
interaction with a medical laboratory scientist,
have been made to undergo tests which the
consulting physician never requested and
BINGO! the cause of the ailment is discovered!

I WOULD RATHER WE HAVE A MODEL WHERE
ALL THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS FORM A
CIRCLE WITH THE PATIENT AT THE CENTRE
BECAUSE IN THE COURSE OF INTERACTION
AMONG THE VARIOUS PROFESSIONALS,, THE
PATIENT GETS A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION
TO HIS/ HER CONDITION.


Patients do not go to
the hospital to see the physician as errorneously
spread by our physicians, we go to the hospital
to seek treatment. Some get the solution to their
challenge only after seeing the pharmacist, some
after seeing the nurse and some, after a visit to
the medical lab scientist. Our physicians usually
mouth international best practice whenever they
want to impose their thinking on the citizens but
will never agree that it is international best
practice to obey court rulings. Imagine what
would be of Nigeria today if our politicians do
not subject themselves to court rulings. Should a
court sack a governor and the governor decides
to sit tight to his post, what will be of that state?
Now let us take engineering for instance. We all
agree that the electrical engineer deal with wires
and connections. Would it be right for the
mechanical engineer to look down on the
electrical engineer saying, " you only connect
wires, so let me supervise your work so that it
you do not interfer with my work and thus be
your head because I do the main thing. I build
the machines". Or for the civil engineer to claim
headship and lord it over the electrical engineer?
Rather, each engineering specialty is
autonomous with each respecting one another -
not so in our health sector.

Also, I have read many times where our
physicians refer to Medical Laboratory Scientists
as Lab scientists, lab technicians and many
derogatory names. This does not make our
physicians more important nor superior. It only
goes a long way to expose their insecurities. I
think they should and be rightly called MEDICAL
LABORATORY SCIENTISTS. No health worker has
ever referred to a physician as a 'ward boy' or
'ward man or woman' which in actual sense that
is what they are. The rocket scientist with so
much knowlegde is yet to make as much noise
as our physicians. Please, let each professional
respect one another.

In conclusion, I call on all politicians, policy
makers, traditional rulers, men of timber and
caliber, state governors, members of the House
of Representatives,the Senate, all government
agencies, all political parties, all NGOs, the
United Nations, the World Health Organisation,
and the Commander in Chief of The Armed
Forces, President Buhari - The Change Agent- to
ensure that the different professional groups in
the Nigeria health sector man the headship of
their various professions without superimposing a
group of persons on another profession inwhich
they do not have a first degree in.
It would be against the law for physicians to say
they would begin to send samples to one group
of persons and ensure laboratory results are
endorsed by them so as to sympathise with
them; when a court of competent juridiction -
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ruled
in the case of NUAHP and the management of
OAUTHC that "NONE CAN ACT, SUPERVISE OR
PERFORM THE FUNCTION OF THE MEDICAL
LABORATORY SCIENTIST HIM NOT BEING A
REGISTERED/ LICENCED MEMBER OF THE
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE COUNCIL OF
NIGERIA."
Please let this fighing and war end and let the
health sector of Nigeria move forward.
James Michael, Biochemist and a concern
citizen of Nigeria.


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cc: lala

Scientists have discovered that premature babies urine can repair damaged kidney cells..



If you’re looking for stem cells, urine luck…
Urine from premature babies could provide a
rich supply of stem cells for medical
treatments or for rebooting worn-out kidneys
for transplantation.


Stem cells are the cellular putty from which
all tissues in our body are made . They can be
hard to come by though. Embryos provide a
great source of stem cells that can change
into a whole manner of tissues, but they
involve the destruction of an embryo.
Over the years, researchers have found other
sources of stem cells at a slightly later stage
of development that can develop into specific
cell types. For example, a type of stem cell
destined to become kidney cells can be
isolated from adult urine .


But babies born early might provide a better
source, says Elena Levtchenko at the
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium.
She and her colleagues collected urine
samples from premature babies born at
between 31 and 36 weeks. The team then
searched for cells with specific markers that
flagged them as stem cells.


The team developed these stem cells into a
range of types of kidney cell by changing the
nutrients in which they were bathed. “They
act like kidney cells, and do what kidney
cells are supposed to do,” says Levtchenko.
There were also plenty of stem cells to be
found – many more than the team collected
from adult urine, says Levtchenko. The urine
of premature babies is much more likely to
provide a source of enough stem cells to be
used in any potential therapies, she says.
This could be because a fetus’s kidneys
continue to develop right up to birth , so
premature babies’ kidneys are still
developing.


As good as new


The premature babies’ stem cells seem to be
able to protect other cells from damage.
When the team applied cisplatin – a toxic
cancer drug – to adult kidney cells, all of the
cells died. But when the team added stem
cells to the mix, they found that although
some kidney cells died, others regenerated
and survived.


The team is testing their urine-derived stem
cells on human organs that are too old or
damaged to be used for transplantation. The
aim is to regenerate damaged kidney tissue,
pepping-up worn out organs.
Levtchenko will next test whether the cells
have the same protective effect in living
animals, and eventually people. In theory, the
cells could be used to rescue kidney cells
that are damaged as a result of disease, she
says. If treatments work, it might make sense
to bank stem cells from premature babies’
urine for future use, she says.







Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2079806-urine-from-premature-babies-could-repair-damaged-kidneys/?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=hoot&cmpid=SOC%7CNSNS%7C2016-GLOBAL-hoot

Buy naija made.....when your mum buy you Naija made toy........Lol

2. Don't abuse, bully, deliberately insult/provoke,
fight, or wish harm to Nairaland members OR
THEIR TRIBES.
3. Don't threaten, support or DEFEND violent
acts against any person, tribe, race, animals, or
group (e.g. rape).


You guys should stop fighting.......adhere to the rules.....
there is no need for us to be fighting each other....we both are humans.......



Indians should apologize to the Nigerians and Nigerians should do the same......

Peace.....



PS.....pls don't mind my grammars....

Researchers in Germany have developed a
diagnostic test that can accurately detect the
Zika virus in humans with test kits already sent
to Brazil.
Previously the mosquito borne virus could only
be detected if someone showed some of the
disease’s distinctive symptoms, making the fever
extremely difficult to track – especially as the
majority of people do not show symptoms.
However the tests, developed by German
biotechnology company, Genekam, not only
reveal the presence of Zika pathogens in a blood
sample but also provide information on the
quantity in the patient’s blood.
Speaking to Deutsche Welle on Saturday Sudhir
Bhartia, a Genekam researcher, said the test
brings quick results and is the first Zika virus
testing kit to have been developed.
"Our test examines DNA and works with
chemicals that react to the Zika virus only.
Similar pathogens like Dengue fever won't show
up in the results," Bhartia said.
However, Bhartia stressed the tests can only be
administered in specialized medical facilities and
laboratories that have the appropriate equipment
and personnel with sufficient know-how.


“The test must only be
used by qualified
personnel so that
mistakes can be
avoided,” Bhartia
admitted.
Last week five people in
Germany, who had
recently visited Latin
America and the
Caribbean,
were diagnosed
with the Zika virus
infection.
A batch of the kits have
already been sent to
Brazil for immediate use.
Under normal circumstances, the newly
developed tests would go through a lengthy
authorization phase, however Brazilian authorities
have made an exception as the virus continues
to spread across the country and the Americas
at an alarming rate .


With the disease affecting several countries
across the Americas, health experts have warned
that virus could be a bigger threat to global
health than the Ebola epidemic that killed more
than 11,000 people in Africa.
“In many ways the Zika outbreak is worse than
the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15,” said Jeremy
Farrar on Saturday, head of the biomedical
research charity Wellcome Trust. “Most virus
carriers are symptomless. It is a silent infection
in a group of highly vulnerable individuals –
pregnant women – that is associated with a
horrible outcome for their babies.”
According to the Pan American Health
Organization, the virus will likely spread to all 33
Latin American and Caribbean countries as well
as the southern part of the United States.
The World Health Organization, which is set
to hold an emergency meeting of world health experts on Monday,
said Zika is “spreading explosively” across the
region, putting up to 4 million people across the
Americas at risk.






source: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/First-Zika-Virus-Test-Developed-in-Germany---20160131-0001.html?platform=hootsuite

Please, What is the common name of this plant?



The Igbo name is Nbubo

while the Uhrobo name is Obe Obara......please I need to know the common name for it....I am using it for my final year project......its urgent please.....




cc:lalasticlala, please help me out

pls, I want to set up a small fish pond... how much will it cost me for a start? an in delta state..... am considering setting up either earthen or tapoline ....

Hello nairalanders.......

Please, what is the meaning of the phrase "of Medical Importance" ?
Like if someone says the parasite is of medical importance. Please what does it mean?


. Cc: lalasticlala


please help a student .

pepper soup things

gurunlocker:
heard of AC............. What of AA and AC? or AS and AC?

AA and AC are OK....but AS and AC are not...

theimmie:
What of AC and AA... What are the medical implications?

they are good to marry.....AA+AC===AA,AC,AA,AC

good one

nice one

Which type of assignment are u using bus park for?

In case

nice one

NASA o

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Godswillnwaoma:
why cant you ignore the post if u can not contribute anything meaningful.

. I will modify later...ba3 low

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