₦airaland Forum

BigBashiru:
Who is "healthcare sector". You need to realise this all boils down to individuals and their attitude to work.... the posts on the first page already said it all...

There's a limit on what governments can do..... individuals like doctors nurses etc must decide to change.

There's a limit to how much govt can act.

Nigerians aren't animals that they must always be compelled to do the right thing.

On many occasions, Nigerian government had been advised to overhaul the leadership of our health sector starting from the minister of health, governing boards of healthcare institutions, leadership of tertiary healthcare institutions etc, but they seem to pay deaf ears to all the calls. Our health sector is currently managed in a cult-like manner where the medical doctors hijack all leadership positions despite not producing the desired results in terms of good healthcare delivery. They connive with their professional body; the NMA to destroy our health sector. They are placed in those leadership positions with no regards to whether they're qualified or not. Because all the medical doctors belong to the same association ie the NMA, they easily get away with professional negligence in those hospitals led by them. Only very few cases are brought to the fore. But when we have unbiased people who don't belong to same professional group, they'll run the system better. Discipline will be easier to instill and people will be on their toes to give their best.

So, government should start by changing the leadership of the health sector. People from any discipline can be appointed ministers and Commissioners of health. They maybe required to have post graduate certifications in health administration and Management and some years of experience in health administration.

Tedpgrass:
Your submissions are recognised but not practicable in an environment such as Naija where basic core staff such as medics and nurses are in few numbers. That's why education is limited to these core clinical staff with regards to allergy history - taking and also minimising drug errors.

Yes in developed climates where abundant resources aid good undergraduate education (clinical pharmacokinetics alongside physiology) all through to practice as a clinical pharmacist.. and maintenance in the postgrad realm through regular specific CPD support...

But in Naija, where 1 person doubles up as the quasi-physician, nursing assistant, lab scientist and pharmacy technician,....... I don't see that role developing quickly in an equitable, consistent manner and also the macro-economics alongside patient's preference will not enable sufficient forward-planning to cement the vision.

A quick survey amongst most Naija pharmacists may also identify a lack of engagement in that direction. It's more work to their ever-growing burden with little money to show for it.


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Let's stop making excuses for a bad system and work towards righting the wrongs we have ignored for ages!

Many pharmacists in the country are very much ready to practice clinical pharmacy but are being restricted by the bad system. Aside the approval of the Pharm.D program by NUC which aims to produce more clinically inclined pharmacists, some of these pharmacists have gone further to go through the West African College of Pharmacy at their own expense to acquire all the training they need to practice clinical pharmacy but rather than recognize and put them into use for the patient's gain, our hospital managers (most of whom are physicians) have continued to sideline them at the detriment of the healthcare-consuming populace. So, some of these pharmacists now practice pharmaceutical care in their private pharmacies.

The government should make no mistake of being tight fisted when it comes to remunerating healthcare workers because health is wealth since only a healthy person can work and contribute to the nation's GDP.

When some of us advocate for overhaul of our healthcare system, especially her management, it is because we care for a better and healthy nation. A system that we can be proud to bequeath to our unborn generations.

It is not like we can not join the bad system and make good money from it, but doing that will be akin to destroying the world rather than building it.

Anybody who had been following my posts on this forum will agree that I have been a great advocate of a revamped healthcare system in Nigeria. But some people may think that we are chasing clout or trying to monopolize the system. That is not the case!


Let's fix our health sector now!

ibedun:
Foolish idiotic thinking. Oyinbo land is tired of immigrants and are putting up barriers to stop you. The best bet is to develop our minds and improve our country! Life is not meant for ‘show off or I big pass you’ it is meant for cooperation and building together.

Don't mind some Nigerians! They want to live at the mercy of whites yet they'll cry when the whites want to impose their values like homosexuality on them.

The solution is to fight and get the government do the right thing by fixing our healthcare sector!
Healthcare is very important because only a healthy person can work and earn a living.

ecomalchemist:
This is exactly how they almost killed my mum in 2016. Such a commercial enterprise with no care for human lives. They and Paelon are only mindful of money, money, money. Recent experience with Evercare shows they are different, more empathetic and willing to do extra without putting money first. What really has become of our people? No care even in the so called highbrow hospitals. They will be negligent yet asking for more money. The chicken has come home to roost. This can’t go on much longer.

Check the management of Evercare, you'll discover that they have a different managerial organogram. It's not an all-physicians affair! When you have such unbiased management, discipline will be instilled. Everybody will be on their toes to give their best to the patients.
This is what Nigerian governments have failed to do to put our healthcare system on the path of success.

Tedpgrass:
This is no complicated pharmaceutical care but just taking a basic allergy history and having at hand.. Phenergan injections / hydrocortisone injection / adrenaline with oxygen - - - contents of an emergency crash trolley.


Taking a careful medical history - conditions that run in patients and their families help

You often find that patients don't have a full knowledge of their own history or don't remember in some cases.

That's why wearing dog tags for those with allergies-- antibiotics, latex, even paracetamol - - is very good. Also those with diabetes, renal or liver failure.


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Incorporating pharmaceutical care helps! Before drugs are administered to patients, a clinical pharmacist should see the patient. They're in a better position to take those histories and brainstorm with the doctor to determine appropriate drugs for the patient's condition. Their jobs shouldn't just be to dispense drugs! Many lives would be saved if we start allowing pharmacists play pharmaceutical care roles in the wards like is done in the developed nations!

You alluded to allergies as though allergic reactions are the only drug therapy problems we have. There are many DTPs and some can lead to patient's death!

ayandee:
May God save us from négligent doctors. With the huge amount of money the husband paid, they still could not do their job well. RIP. So sad

They didn't know what to do and were too arrogant to take the advice of the UK-based gynaecologist! Nigeria is messed up! Our doctors would rather chase money and engage in rivalry with other healthcare professionals than study and get updated on best practices in medicine and surgery!

I pity this country!!!

urchcoded:
Naija hospitals smh similar thing happened to my dad. The thing is these people don't really care if you live or die. It's just business for them, they don't have one naira compassion. My dad was admitted on emergency (we paid the emergency admission money) they just dumped him on the bed for almost an hour, no doctor came to check him. My brother was vexed and started ranting, demanding to see a doctor.( The doctor was in his office oh, but said his duty was over so he was not obligated to see any patient) he told a nurse to give my dad some injections without asking of his medical history, the nurse just came and stabbed him with the injections and left, few minutes later, he couldn't breathe and was in such a bad state, we started calling for help oh. The nurse came and started soliloquizing audibly that assuming say she know say na winch we carry come, she for no even attend to am, saying all sorts of nonsense. We told her to do something oh as he was obviously reacting to the injections she gave him. She said she only did what the doctor told her to do and she's not responsible for anything. Oya go and call the doctor, she said the doctor is not on duty so he might not come. I already knew my father was asthmatic so I told her to put him on oxygen. She seemed confused and reluctant, she proceeded to carry the oxygen tank while telling us that she is not supposed to do this oh. She put him on oxygen and he gradually calmed down. That was the day I gave up on naija hospitals and health officials.

The problem is that Nigeria is yet to start practicing pharmaceutical care the way it should be. Our doctors just assume that the few months they learnt pharmacology in school is enough to know all. Your dad obviously reacted to the injection he was administered. Thank God oxygen was available to help calm things down.

Like in the case of this Omolara, I can bet anything to the fact that she reacted to whatever stuff that was administered to her during that initial hospital visit. We have had many similar cases in the past. A friend of mine died in that manner in an Enugu hospital. Someone who went to the hospital by himself and then immediately he was injected whatever, his condition worsened. BP dropped drastically and the next thing was death! A painful incidence it was!

The dependent ladies are a problem because if their husbands die prematurely, the children become helpless! Most ladies who are into prostitution are products of such homes.

Hassanmaye:
Hit the gym, drink water, apply moisturizer, sleep well

I do all that. I think the problem is psychological. Maybe because of my exposure to medical knowledge, human body and sciences generally, I now see those features in ladies that used to attract me as what they really are: mass of tissues, cells, fats, carbohydrates, proteins and nucleotides arranged by genetics and functioning due to physiological actions of neurons.

Such an annoying mentality!
The same ladies we fight for their empowerment will turn around and start demanding for men they'll dump their whole needs on. As if women like Alakija, Iweala, Genevieve and co have ten heads.

I hate "feed me and fucck me" kind of ladies!

wink2015:
BUHARI is the one that brought himself down.

He got all the respect from this Igbo clergy man but went out of his ways to abuse the honour given to him.

We should not always disrespect honours that others give to one.

THE SAME WAY BUHARI DISHONOUR THE RESPECT FATHER MBAKA GAVE TO HIM THE SAME WAY HE DISRESPECTED THE TRUST NIGERIANS HAD FOR THE APC WHEN THE BUHARI LED APC WON THE 2015 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

So, if Buhari had approved some unmerited contracts for Mbaka, would we have been here talking about disrespect Would Mbaka have cared even if the country nosedived to abyss

Imagine the so called man of God speaking from both sides of his mouth!

What a disgrace to the holy catholic church! And some brainwashed people still support him.

Do you possess the qualities capable of attracting a white gentleman? Or as usual, everything must be as you desire!

If after all these years, no Nigerian guy found you attractive and good enough to marry, what made you think a white man would desire you Or are you just being delusional like a typical naija babe

adadike:
Am not a blind supporter. Some of us have insight. When he said go after killer herdsmen, I agree but going after security men will put everyone in danger and that's very true. Our brothers and sisters were kidnapped yesterday, we still don't know there whereabout. My take is, go after killer herdsmen but let security men be

This is what I have been saying since, but misguided Igbo youths on this forum termed me afonja. Go to many Igbo villages today, Fulanis have taken over people's farmlands! If ESN and IPOB were smart, they'll start from those villages and get rid of the herders tactfully without confronting the police.

But they lack wisdom!

RIP to the dead.

In my confraternity, we make men and women of honour that are world builders and not destroyers. Men and women of integrity and sound morals.

Men and women who understand and speak the language of sciences and solve world and individual problems using the scientific method.

Care to join? Go to the nearest JAMB office, buy the form and enroll into the profession of pharmacy! Thank you

BiggyB242:
Good day, please is uniben accepting candidates into its pharmacy department this year. Someone was trying to register but the cafe guy was like no pharmacy for uniben.

Yes, uniben is accepting pharmacy candidates this year.

femifemi1:
How can you as a guy say you don't have time to persuade a girl, we are talking about a girl you perceived to meet your criteria here and not some random Olosho walking and stalking the street for one time meal

It is in a makeup of a real man to have the feel of conquering something. It's either we have men who are now timid, weak, non confrontational or a man who only believe that only money makes a man.

How would you feel as a man to walk up to a lady and before you say I like you, she is smiling and saying am all yours? Only girls that are secretly positioned to steal your destiny act like that, and this includes the Olosho mamas

In the real animal domineering kingdom male birds dance, show muscles and some even fight to death for the love of the female.

All I read are guys saying that they woo a girl just to fv*k...if that's all that you think about all day long as a gee then something is wrong somewhere. Money can get you a good damn s*x, a good looking cutie, a red lips curvecious anatos, but not a hearty love.

And if you are afraid of heart break as a man, then your journey into the world of manhood has not began.......be a man that conquer.

Balderdash!!!

Probably had health issue but failed to take orthodox treatment due to belief in prayer and miracle healing.

RIP to the dead

mmadu4:
you are not alone brother i am also facing the same thing but trust me when the right one comes along you will know

Hmmm....I pray o my brother. The thing dey fear me somehow sha

Nonsense!

So you can go on destroying people's crops with the backing of federal security

Every region in the South should tighten their regional security because I see more trouble coming from the jihadists herders. The southeast especially should do the needful and settle for either ESN, Ebubeagu or both! We need robust regional security in order to ward off the impending Fulani invasion. A word is enough for the wise!

In Nigeria, different laws operate between northerners and southerners. While sharia law allows northern Muslims to marry even ten years old girls, the Nigerian civil law says southerners can only marry from the age of 18years.

These lopsided laws have continued to place the north at advantage in terms of population and political dominance! If you know, you know...

Rubbiish:
How old are u?

In my late twenties

My own problem is that I am currently struggling with getting attracted to girls! Not that I am gay or something, God forbid! Just discovered that ladies no longer trip me like before! Please, does attraction to the opposite gender decline with time

Like I remember how I used to struggle with my craving for the opposite sex during my late teens and early twenties. But right now, I can't point at any girl that make me go love sick like before. Hope all is still well with me o? I am worried because I may still decide to marry and I wouldn't want to be in a loveless marriage.

anastasius:
Don't go and register for usmle or plab. Village Champion

To you, USMLE and Plab are all that matter among the the different medical exams Talk to me when you have gone through rigorous residency training and become an expert in a medical specialty, even if it is just pathology!

anastasius:
Bullshit. Absolute bullcrap.
I've studied in both public and private universities and I'd advice anyone to avoid public universities for any professional courses. So far the private is accredited.
You aren't meant to learn all in school. Basics for survival is all that's needed. We all learn on the job.
Public schools live on past glories and making lives difficult for students shouldn't be a yardstick for measuring excellence.
Almost all my seniors in private university medical schools are working abroad. Why weren't they denied the opportunity? They passed their exams!!!
Please dead this talk of public medical schools better than privates.

The truth remains what it is! I'll never refer any patient to a doctor I know that trained in a Nigerian private university! It is easy to claim that all your mates are working abroad, even if they work as healthcare assistants.
You learn on the job Why attend university in the first place My loved ones and I will not be used as lab rats by your likes.

edoairways:
Afe Babalola medical school is good

That's the only exception

elbulk:
Where do you get your information from, its baffling. Afe Babalola University has one of the best medical schools in the country as we speak. Their teaching hospital is next to none.
It's always good to have good information. Regardless of where you study as a doctor, you end up writing the same qualifying exams plus if you can cram you can go through med school.
The private university graduates are the ones working in multinationals and owning the viable startups but at ht e moment.
What you do with yourself is left to you. I know people that graduated from low rated polytechnics but are doing well too.

Of all the private universities offering medicine in Nigeria, you're mentioning only Afe babalola uni? That's insignificant.

And to think that Nigerian pharmacists don't even charge money to give drug information services, yet some Nigerians still risk their lives. Drugs have led many Nigerians to their early graves! I wish the government could pay more attention to controlling how people get access to these drugs!

Obasanjo, one of the few Nigerian leaders that truly understand how to manage a multiethnic nation like Nigeria and give everyone a sense of belonging.

Maxymilliano:
What has vandalizing the Bishop's court has to do with Mbaka's whereabouts

In one of his recent talks, Mbaka was busy preaching against western education. The reason of course, is that the less educated the people become the easier for him to maintain his control over their psyche.

supportnija:
Op, this is spiritual thing nobody can measure it, but in 2015 Oyedepo supported Jonathan he failed, I have never seen or heard Oyedepo was shot at close range he did not die, Fr Mbaka was shot many times during Chimaroke nothing happen to him, I know fr Mbaka there is not man of God liveth that is fearless as him or spiritual. Forget your comparison

Chimaroke never sent any assassins after Mbaka! That story was made up! Stop spreading lies!