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If God doesn't watch over the city, they labour in vain, those watching it.






IF GOD DOESN'T ESCORT SOMEONE, THOSE ESCORTING THE PERSON ONLY DO THAT IN VAIN.

if there is one university that is not supposed to be on that list, it's UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN.


I can say this even in the presence of Prof Adeoye.


I rest my case.

THE “STAPHYLOCOCCUS” FRAUD.
Dike Victor O. (M.D) dikevictor@yahoo.com
It is very disheartening how some individuals misinform, deceive and defraud
fellow Nigerians in the name of treating “staphylococcus”! We can’t just fold our
arms and allow this anomaly to continue. I want to state it in unequivocal terms
that; THERE IS NO SUCH DISEASE ENTITY CALLED “STAPHYLOCOCCUS.”
As a Family physician , I think it’s time to let Nigerians know the truth, and not be
misled by individuals who flood the streets and mass media with propaganda and
jingles of staphylococcus and how they are specialists in treating it. There is no
such thing. It beats my imagination however that those in authority see and hear
all this misleading information vehemently propagated by these individuals, yet
turn a blind eye. Part of the duty of the Government is to protect the lives of
innocent citizens.
There have been cases of marital discord between couples who accused each
other of marital infidelity based on the mere reason that the other was said to have
been diagnosed of “STAPHYLOCOCCUS” or “STAPH”, (as they fondly call it), by
whosoever, which to them, is a sexually transmitted disease. That informed my
decision to write this piece so as to correct the wrong impressions. I kept
wondering how many other people that may have been wallowing in this pool of
ignorance or living in anxiety, and those that may have been subjected to some
irreversible harm by this misinformation!. The truth is that, there is no sexually
transmitted disease that is called STAPHYLOCOCCUS!
It is not unusual to see people who come to tell you they were diagnosed of
“staph” some years back, that they had been on some medications predominantly
herbal, that they want to do a repeat test to know whether the “staph” has
cleared. This is really funny. Most times, one won’t hide his embarrassment,
considering that some of them are supposedly learned, and worse still may be
working in the hospitals as healthcare providers.
WHAT STAPHYLOCOCCUS IS.
Staphylococcus is one of the numerous bacteria that live in our world, just like
streptococcus. It is classified as a Gramm positive, facultative anaerobic
bacterium and has many species like; staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus
epidermidis, staphylococcus hominis, staphylococcus saprophyticus and many
others. As a matter of fact, most staphylococcus species live all over our skin and
mucous membranes (no matter how clean) as commensal, and do not cause any
harm except in some unusual circumstances. For instance, the staphylococcus
saprophyticus is part of the normal flora of the lower female genital tract. That is
to say, if you take a swab of any part of the skin for culture, it will most likely grow
staphylococcus, and the uninformed will see it as an infection, which it is not! I
often overhear people suggest to their friends and colleagues to go and do culture,
as if it’s the solution to whatever problem they may have. The finding of
staphylococcal organisms outside their usual pathological domain during culture
is most likely to be a contaminant from the skin or immediate environment.
DISEASES CAUSED BY STAPHYLOCOCCUS SPECIES.
1. The staphylococcus food poisoning. The staphylococcus bacteria can gain
access to poorly stored food -soup, fruits, salad etc and infect them. A person
who eats food that has been poisoned with stappylococcus toxin can come down
with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea etc. that is called staphylococcal
food poisoning.
2. Staphylococcus skin infections like Boils, impetigo, cellulititis, especially in
infants. It can also be seen in immunocompromised, chronic diseases like
diabetes, and intravenous drug abusers.
3. Surgical wound breakdown, injection abscess especially if the skin is poorly
cleaned.
4. It can cause urinary tract infection especially in women, when the normal
commensal in the vagina is transferred to the urethral opening, or during urethral
catheterization for both sexes. As a matter of fact, staphylococcus is the least of
the causes of urinary tract infection. It is not as common as people declare it,
though.
5. In severe cases can enter the blood and multiply and cause endocarditis
(heart), osteomyelitis (bones), pneumonias, abscess in any internal organ, sepsis
and toxic shock syndrome.
WHAT STAPHYLOCOCCUS IS NOT !(CONTRARY TO WIDELY HELD BELIEF)
1. Staphylococcus is not a disease entity, it is just a bacterium.
2. It is not a sexually transmitted infection. It cannot be transmitted via
intercourse.
3. It is not toilet infection.
4. It does not cause loss of sleep.
5. It does not cause “noisy stomach” or crawling sensation in the skin.
6. It does not cause ‘internal heat’
7. It does not cause excessive sweating.
8. It does not cause vaginal discharge.
9. It is not a cause of tubal factor infertility.
10. It does not cause fibroid.
11. It does not cause urethral discharge.
12. It does not cause low sperm count.
13. It does not cause erectile dysfunction.
14. It does not cause premature ejaculation.
15. It does not cause poor sexual performance.
16. There is no such thing as “ chronic staph”.
Symptoms like abdominal noise and epigastric pain may be suggestive of
dyspepsias, while internal heat and crawling sensations may suggest somatoform
disorders. . The advice is that, he who is sick should go and see a doctor who will
advise them appropriately. People should resist being deceived by some
individuals who parade themselves as “staphylococcus specialists”.
Those who have health concerns should go to a qualified medical practitioner for
proper advice and treatment. The government should also rise up and protect the
lives of innocent citizens, by ensuring that correct medical information is
disseminated in the media.

Over 100000 viewing this topic
Keshi is in trouble

Nothing bad in it. As long as she's done with her schooling.
B4 30yrs, she will be done with pregnancy business and will be more focused.

All hail the power of Jesus name. I love this song

bigtt76: Instead of looking for ways to help prevent spread of Ebola, these fools still on strike na den mate dey die for Liberia and Sierra Leone doing helpless service, these ones wan hammer ...God is watching!

You , mean they should be fighting Ebola with #5000 hazard allowance?
There is God oooooooo

NURSES SET TO STRIKE IF PHARMACISTS GET HIGHER
SALARY
By Frank Kumi, Spokesperson, GHOSPA, Northern Region
Member, Pharmaceutical Society Of Ghana
The threat issued by the President of the Ghana Registered Nurses
Association (GRNA), Mr. Asante Krobea to embark upon a strike if
the demands of striking pharmacists are acceded to should not
be entertained since it is entirely misplaced and staggers on
tenuous logic.
Mr. Asante's threats is based upon the fact that pharmacists have
been moved a step upwards from 18L to 18H on the Single Spine
Salary Structure (SSSS) and therefore the entry point of the
degree nurse should also be treated same. It is very startling to
realize that his demand lacks basic logic, and not even premised
on any scientific basis.
It is important for the public to bear cognizance that prior to the
implementation of the Single Spine, a comprehensive job
evaluation for every professional group was executed by labour
consultants, Price Water Coopers. The job evaluation, based upon
the job description of every single profession provided by the
employer sought to establish a scientific backing, devoid of
personal judgments and bias during the determination of the
salaries of public sector workers.
After a Job Re-evaluation by Price Water Cooper, it was revealed
that a host of other professionals—the entry point of a Nurse
inclusive--scored far below the level of the pharmacist grade. As
clear as it was, the exit point of the nursing profession on the
SSSS, a Principal Nurse, even scored 597—only 28 points higher
than the entry point of the pharmacist. The Pharmacist scored
569 while the Medical Officer (entry grade of doctors on the SSSS)
obtained 791.
However, contrary to the rational for conducting the scientific job
evaluation of which huge amounts of moneys had spent on by the
Government, the Fair Wages and Salary Commission (FWSC) and
the Management of the health ministry arbitrary placed all degree-
holding health professionals on the same level—18L. Upon
realizing this galling and despicable injustice, pharmacists
registered their displeasure and threatened to withdraw their
services. National Labour Commission (NLC) stepped in and
decided to settle the contentious matter of grade structure of
GHOSPA members through a compulsory arbitration since the
FWSC persistently disregarded the plea of pharmacists.
After an arduous and painstaking patience of seeking justice
spanning two years, occasionally characterized by legitimate
agitation by pharmacists, the NLC decided to rule on the grade
structure of government and hospital pharmacists. Even though
pharmacists initially demanded that their entry point is started
from 19L, the NLC upon meticulous analysis of the reasonable
fundamental basis of the clamours being made by the
pharmacists, eventually decided to start them from 18H.
It is interesting to note that the Ghana Medical Association (GMA)
had similar justifiable concerns after the initial placement of its
members unto the SSSS. The Medical Officer who scored 791, had
been placed at 20H, where as the Principal Nursing Officer also
with a lower score of 597 had been placed at the same level of
20H irrespective of the scientific analysis and salary relativities
espoused by the Job Re-Evaluation. This inconsistency was
however resolved-- Medical Officer was moved from 20H to 21L—
at Dodowa by the FWSC after unrelenting protest by the GMA
following a stakeholder's forum at the instance of the Ministry of
Health (MoH).
This entire blatant disregard to the scientific basis of establishing
salaries of government workers has all along been the
fundamental cause of the unremitting labour agitation as well as
inflation of the wage bill. Some professional groups on the SSSS,
particularly the nurses were favoured by the FWSC without any
justification; but based on mere benevolence, discretion and
disregard to job evaluation. There is therefore a strong cause to
believe that some officials at the Fair Wages and Salary
Commission are flouting the fundamental principles of any Job
Evaluation: strict commitment to objectivity, fairness, and
equitable treatment to all employees.
Mr Smith Graham, the Chief Executive Officer of FWSC whose
spouse happen to be a public sector nurse and Mr Cornelius
Yawson (Head of Grievance Review Committee of FWSC) believed
to be the labour consultant for the nurses have taken a dangerous
personal stance for disregarding these tenets of Job Evaluation. In
a confidential document to the NLC, Mr Graham insinuated that if
the NLC accedes to the pharmacists quest for justice, the over
24,000 nurses shall also have a cause to disrupt the labour front.
In that document, according to him, the minority of 500
pharmacists have no political impact, and that any strike action
embarked upon by pharmacists would have a significantly lesser
impact as compared to the nursing work force.
It should therefore come as no surprise that following NLC's ruling
of serving justice, the nurses are sequentially embarking on a
purposeless escapade of resisting the pharmacists' demand for
fairness and justice. Could it be that Mr Graham and Mr Yawson
are using the nurses as professional pawns to intentionally deny
justice to the pharmacists?
The Office of the President of the Republic of Ghana, Ministry of
Employment, and the Ministry of Health as a matter of urgency,
institute an investigation into the murky conduct of these two
main officials at the FWSC as their actions are a complete
antithesis to harmony and unity among labour unions, in addition
to national development.
All hunches indicate that the strange and sudden threat of strike
action by the Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA) are
undeniably being fomented by these two gentlemen at the FWSC
who are embroiled in a serious conflict of interest.
The farcical demand by the President of the GRNA that nurses
should receive the same salaries as pharmacists, without any
scientific ground clearly has no merit and should therefore be
regarded as a malicious attempt in causing a stir and disunity in
the health sector.
Nurses' educational training and that of the pharmacists are
completely different so is their unique roles played in the delivery
of healthcare. In effect, the Job Evaluation based on their
respective job descriptions elicited the dichotomy between these
two health professions. Mr. Asante and the FWSC are being
challenged to boldly publish the scores of the nurses and the
pharmacists as shown by the Job Evaluation conducted by Price
Water Coopers.

JOHESU AND DIRTY GAME is like a season film and it will continue so far they have raised level of ''COMPLEXIN" IN their system. lol

Brazil 2014 has been full of revenge missions.
Spain vs Netherlands
Germany vs Brazil
Netherlands vs Brazil.
Can we have another revenge mission accomplished tonight?
#GermanyvsArgentina.

annoymous: Lol. Did u say double? Quadruple sef never reach. Anesthesiologists are one of the most well paid physicians in the US

Yes ooooooooo. I saw this yesterday and I think it'll shed light on the argument.
http://www.myplan.com/careers/top-ten/highest-paying.php

prettyprettywow: And that is still not it. Besides, this post is not about comparing salaries. Nurses never claim to make more than the doctors even in Nigeria. We just want the right things done for our healthcare system

what is that right thing you want to be done?

prettyprettywow: newly employed first level nurse earn more than resident doctors in US. Google is your friend

Thank God everyone has access to Google. I just checked some stuffs on Google now and did not come across any document in which freshly graduated nurse earn more than a resident irrespective of the numbers of Years he or she has spent in training.

Other health workers want to be collecting the same amount of Money as doctors. Whereas, it's not so in other parts of the world.
See how it is outside the country. I don't think it should be different here.

barika2011: Just see your sense..mumu..look at the way u address efficient and hard working medical lab scientist,pharmacist and nurses...'lab people'..without this people a doctors practice is zero..if they go on strike even d doctors will go home to stay,cos not even registration of patients would take place,cos all medical files of the hospital wud b dumped on the shelves,...then we can start from there....

That's one of the biggest lies from the realm of darkness. The last time JOHESU were on strike, doctors were still seeing patients with temporary case notes opened for them.

cnwamo: I could give you a million and one reasons centered around money, self, etc but there's no need to... Its personal

Okay, wish you all the best.

cnwamo: l
The big difference between the Nigerian medical teams and those abroad is the doctors have an attitude problem...before you begin insulting me I'm a now a medical student and I'm speaking from first hand experience as a nurse for 5 years...

If I may ask, why did you decide to study medicine having practised as a nurse for that number of years.

phantom: rising from their respective emergency delegates meeting, the national association of resident doctors (NARD) and the nigerian medical association (NMA), have called for an indefinite strike from 00.00hrs july 1st.

notice is hereby given to the general public to visit the hospitals and get healthcare from the consultant pharmacists,lab technologists,nurses,optometrists,physiotherapists and radiographers.
these other healthcare providers will clerk you,examine you,interprete your lab results,interprete your radiographs/CT's,carry out your surgeries,give you appropriate drugs and nurse you back to health.

so in effect,you will get your standard world-class care without the doctors.dont be afraid!

in johesu we trust!!!!!!


n/b: the general public is also by this notice informed that they must resist any attempt to discharge their relatives from hospitals,they should insist on getting healthcare from the other staff.

I can't but pity those patients that will be managed by the so called Kangaroo Consultants. Even when they have health issues with any of their family members, we know who most of them run to.

indifferent,

I was once in this your shoe some years back. I wanted to study medicine in UI but was given agriculture, i registered for agriculture, but on getting to the faculty, i was given Forestry which i did not like but i was advised to stay put and get another JAMB form the following year which i did and entered into another university in southwest to study medicine and presently serving Nigeria as a medical doctor.
While in UI, i was studying the course as if i wud graduate with it in UI and i was the best student in my faculty till i left for medicine.
The lesson there for you is that, you should not forfeit this admission, make sure you study well and then take another UME exam and if medicine clicks, good for you and if otherwise, that's not the end of the word as there were some of my mates then that also wanted to study medicine but were also given agriculture and they didn't have the opportunity i had, and they are doing well now in their various fields in agriculture.

lipsyliscious: welcomed ni welcomed ko! English is hard oh! Btw with all d gifts flying around, I should probably get myself a bf, bt guys always run, cos it's nt just 25th dey hv 2 tink of, my bday is 24th

if your bday is 24th of Dec, it's even easier for any guy bcoz he wud just have to buy you same gift for bday and Xmas.

Great Ife, ni mo ti wa oooo.............
A graduate of college of health sciences
Dept of Medicine and surgery

I will likely miss tonight champions league cos of "love"