₦airaland Forum

machinery1:
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See another villager. Report of 2010-2016 and you are talking about war of 1965. Lmaoooo. You will always find excuse for your shortcomings, blame everyone except yourself. Dont you have shame?

Peeps like you just confirmed to me that NL is flooded with kindergartens. Why can't you decypher a simple paragraph. If you think you can, then ask Google the short and long term effects of war(s) on the people. especially after the marginalization that followed it.
Now to educate you a little. The SW had 27m+ in the 2006 census while SE had 17m+ in same yr.
With almost eqall number of jamb applicants which zone do you think has more, judging from the fact that kano and rivers were judged based on their population? I did all these enlightenment assuming you can understand the basics of statistics. no insults intended.

austino677:
cashed out on merrybet or where? Because only newbies fall for such... . Merrybet offers cash back not cashout... And ALSO LEARN HOW TO LIE.. thanks

Pls try and understand what he said. he won 1.8m last time and withdrew 1.3m and used 500k to stake again which is possible. at that is what he said.

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DonLo:
There must have been a mix up somewhere. I know OAU for one thing and that is the reasonable perceived fairness in admission process into Medicine. Never trust others applying to study medicine as they might have had a better result but it seems unlikely seeing her O level results too. But at least she should have been given another course.
I'll try calling Prof Fatusi, the provost attention to it if possible.
Lala please move this to front page let OAU come explain, save someone's destiny.

MODIFIED: On a second look at her result, it shows her O Level result is weak when you look at the subjects that matters in the 5 credit requirement. Schools now use point system. Her Biology, Chemistry and Physics are weak and considering that Jamb and O level carries 50%. A candidates with 270 and A1(s) in these subjects would have counteracted her jamb result. But let the school clarify so as to clear our already biased mind of them cheating her.

Even if she had c6 in all, the sch should have given her something. There are courses in education, agric and the pure sciences.

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Christane:
I wrote dz exam 2011 febuary ..bt was not sucessful ...congrats to dem al 4 a sucessful p.o.p ...bt i knw one day my time wil cum ..nd people wil celebrate me.

Same thing with me. I wrote it but that time the love for civil university outweighed that of military. #noregret

TonyeBarcanista:
let the judicial fireworks start but why can't DSS obtain arrest warrant against the Justice?

You pple keep banking on rule-of-law everytime without considering the other side of it. You and I know the number of hours it will take to obtain a warrant. And before you know it they will hide the evidence(money, document) and there will be nothing to use against them.
Economic crimes is our biggest problem, we must fight it by any which way we can.

While the Optometrist is defined as an independent primary eye care provider who examine, diagnose, treat and manage diseases and disorders of the visual system, the eye and associated structures; as well as diagnose related systemic conditions. {1}

World Council of Optometry went further to define Optometry as a healthcare profession that is autonomous, educated, and regulated (licensed/registered), and optometrists are the primary healthcare practitioners of the eye and visual system who provide comprehensive eye and vision care, which includes refraction and dispensing, detection/diagnosis and management of disease in the eye, and the rehabilitation of conditions of the visual system.

But the Act establishing Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Board of Nigeria (Chap 09. Part VI, Section 29 [interpretation]) defined optometry thus:

"Optometry” means a health-care profession specializing in the art and science of
vision care and whose scope of practice includes—
(a) eye examinations to determine refractive errors and other departures
from the optimally healthy and visually efficient eye;
(b) correction of refractive errors using spectacles, contact lenses, low
vision aids and other devices;
(c) correction of errors of binocularity by means of vision training
(orthoptics);
(d) diagnosis and management of minor occular infections which do not
pose a threat to the integrity of the occular or visual system; and
(e) occular first aid;

And that worrying inclusion of the clause in the Dr Joe Owie  led "Political Action Committee" setup by the current President of Nigerian Optometric Board, Dr Damien Echendu. To wit,
" To ensure that Optometry is designated as a Primary Care Profession by the Ministry of Health in all enabling health Act."

Then the question, is Optometry a primary eye healthcare profession? Why is it not captured thus in the ODORBN Act? And the issue of gazetting the Nigerian Optometrist as a primary eye care professional, it befuddles me that nothing has been done to question the reason why it is taking eternity to gazette us as primary eye care specialists. If the Nigerian Optometrist is not designated as primary eye care provider, then who is a primary eye care provider in Nigeria?

What is Primary Health care?

Essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community… It forms an integral part of the country’s health system…and of the social and economic development of the community…bringing health care as close as possible to where people live and work, and constitutes the first element of a continuing health care process.” {2}
 The primary health care system is a grassroots approach meant to address the main health problems in the community by providing preventive, curative and rehabilitative services. {3}

The concept of primary health care emerged in the 20th century as a strategy to provide access to comprehensive, effective health services for populations. Many forces and historic events shaped the evolution of primary health care.
Historically, China provided the first broad experiences of primary health care beginning in the 1930’s, this was expanded into the concept of the “barefoot doctor” on a national scale and subsequently the largest experience has been and continues to be on the Indian sub-continent.{4}

Mable and Marriott (2002) state that Primary Health Care (PHC) “recognizes the broader determinants of health and includes coordinating, integrating, and expanding systems and services to provide more population health, sickness prevention, and health promotion, not necessarily just by doctors. It encourages the best use of all health providers to maximize the potential of all health resources.”

The Alma-Ata declaration of 1978 on Primary health care summarizes five (5) core principles on which Primary health care should be built on:
(1) active public participation, 
(2) accessibility; 
(3) health promotion and chronic disease prevention and management, 
(4) the use of appropriate technology and innovation (including knowledge, skills and information),
(5) inter-sectoral cooperation and collaboration.

Primary Health Care Service was first introduced in Nigeria in 1975 by Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s leader announced the Basic Health Service Scheme (BHSS) as part of the Third National Development Plan (1975-80). The objectives of the scheme were to increase the proportion of the population receiving health care from 25 to 60 percent, correct the imbalances in the location and distribution of health institutions and provide the infrastructures for all preventive health programmes such as control of communicable diseases, family health, environmental health, nutrition and others and establish a health care system best adapted to the local conditions and to the level of health technology. {5}

Optometry practice in Nigeria is mainly a private health care initiative with little or no practical solution to the lacunae orchestrated by the burden of blindness in our society today. The burden of blindness in Nigeria, in Africa, is a result of poverty and ineptitude by the authorities in the health sector.
Primary health care in Nigeria revolves round maternal (pregnancy) and child (0-5 years) care. Chronic disease conditions like Diabetes, Hypertension, Osteoarthritis etc other health care issues like Glaucoma, Cataract prevention and management, refractive errors in children and in presbyopic adults, congenital and inherited ocular disease conditions that could be easily accessed in the primary health care level are not only left to fate, quacks end up preying on that lacunae created by the dearth of such health services at that level.

It is not in doubt that we practice a selective kind of Primary health care system in the country, but it is ominous that even the legislative framework that brought about Optometry as a health care practice in Nigeria neither recognizes the Nigerian Optometrist as primary eye care professionals nor does it empower us as the first port of call for eye care disease conditions and until this and other measures are taken to ameliorate this contending issues, the burden of blindness will forever weigh us down to a breaking point. It is rather unfortunate that our primary health care policy is so out of sync with the realities of universal health determinants and little wonder our elites troop out in droves on medical tourism to other developed countries and leaving the rest of us subjected to a life expectancy of less than 55 years!

References:

{1}  ( http://www.noanigeria.org/about-us.html)

{2} [Alma Ata Declaration 1978]

{3}  [Gofin (2005), Olise (2012)]

{4}  [Cynthia Haq et al.,( 2009) 'Primary Health Care: Past. Present and Future.' Global Health Education Consortium.]

{5} [Sorungbe, (1989)]


Ezebuiroh Victor

The last one is sooo on point

Now you know how e take epp you