₦airaland Forum

Mutual respect is lacking in Nigerian hospitals. Just like you noted, everybody in the system is important and should be accorded due respect and at same time hoping that that same person reciprocates it. We cant all be doctors or nurses or pharmacists or Optometrists or radiographers etc but we all exist because of the patient. I agree with you, it is high time government brings every profession in the health sector to the same table for a discussion on how all these bickerings should be resolved and chart a way forward for our ailing health system and sector. If these continue, patients will suffer and the sector is further being destroyed.

In addition Optometrists as Primary health care practitioners can detect systemic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, neurological conditions including tumours eg pituitary tumours and refer appropriately to the relevant specialists for proper care. We know that most of these conditions go undetected for years but by visiting an Optometrist for visual/eye complaints, they can be detected thereby saving life.