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HealthRe: REVEALED: Ebola Is Now Transmitted By Air –lagos Professor by NaMe4: 9:18am On Aug 15, 2014
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HealthAny Health Worker Posted To The Borders Yet? Health Workers On NL Please Confirm by NaMe4(op): 9:16am On Aug 15, 2014
A few days ago, the minister of information, Labaran Maku made it known in a news conference that health workers numbering into thousands have been deployed to the Country's borders as part of the measures to tackle the ebola crisis.

I, as a medical practitioner, do not know of anybody or colleague that has been deployed anywhere.

Please, if you have been deployed or you know of anyone that has been actively engaged in this fight against ebola at the borders, notify us so we have some assurance that we are moving in the right direction.
PoliticsRe: Lagos Ebola Victims Are Neglected And Suffering -relatives & Colleagues Lament by NaMe4: 10:53pm On Aug 14, 2014
Hmmmm. Na wa o.
HealthRe: Do You Know Any Of The Researchers Working On The Ebola Virus? by NaMe4: 8:14am On Aug 13, 2014
This is a good idea. But it would be most useful in preparation of a vaccine and not a cure, especially considering the large numbers of infected people.

A challenge would be identifying humans infected with such strain to obtain serum from or identifying which monkeys or bats are infected with that particular reston strain.
HealthRe: Spanish Priest With Ebola Dies In Madrid hospital by NaMe4: 11:36am On Aug 12, 2014
Well from my understanding of this disease, there have to be key therapeutic steps to be put in place early enough before complications set in.

I don't think ZMAPP would directly attack and kill the virus by the way.

Our government has to welcome our experts in science and the medical field in particular for us to develop our own solution by making easily accessible portals for interested individuals to volunteer vital expertise, skills and even man-power in defeating this menace. Not by announcing formation of some committee and nothing more heard since then.

A commendable job has been done in enlightening the public about the infection/disease with preventive measures.

How about inviting experts and volunteers ready to tackle it head-on?
HealthRe: Medical Experts And Volunteers Against Ebola. Let's Meet Here! by NaMe4(op): 2:40pm On Aug 08, 2014
Ebola is the name given to the virus which causes this potentially deadly disease. It was named after a River in Zaire, where the disease was first identified in the 70s.

Among viruses, ebola is a relatively small virus measuring about 0.08 micron meter in its diameter and has variable length. This gives it a worm-like appearance. (Average sizes of viruses range between 0.02 micron meter and 0.2 micron meter and can only be seen using an electron microscope).

Imagine the size of the human skin pore which is an average of 30 micron meter to 50 micron meter. This is more than enough room for the virus to make its way into the human body. This is where the risk of direct contact with an infected patient comes in.

And one very important thing, the virus seems to be a very virulent disease-causing organism, meaning it hardly misses its chance to infect any suitable host.
HealthMedical Experts And Volunteers Against Ebola. Let's Meet Here! by NaMe4(op): 2:20pm On Aug 08, 2014
Clears throat . . .

Na only me waka come?



Seriously, the reality has set in. It's within our shores, but one thing for sure is that we will NOT be left helpless. This is the final bus stop for ebola.

First step is for us to make good use of fora like this one for potential volunteers, medical experts and those who feel they have valuable contributions to make in order to organise ourselves and know what steps to take in prevention, information rendering and even approaching the necessary authorities with potential solutions.

I surfed the web today in search of government agencies offering such information and it was rather . . . Well! So I feel we can start something here.
PoliticsRe: Release Experimental Drug, Zmapp To Africa! Sign This Petition Today by NaMe4: 1:52pm On Aug 08, 2014
See una! Pipu wey the tin dey disturb no fit organise demself.

Just have a look at our Ministry of Health website homepage. Still 2013 stuff!!!
http://www.fmh.gov.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=435

If Nigerians who want to volunteer to contribute findings, proffer solutions, partake actively in the fight, where would they start from?

A viable solution exists. But how can medical experts presently within the shores of the Country get to meet with the right authorities to make their contributions?
HealthRe: Ebola Most Possible Cure by NaMe4: 12:11am On Aug 08, 2014
grin Na wa o. See panic!
HealthRe: Nigerian Female Doctor Dies Of Ebola by NaMe4: 2:21pm On Aug 06, 2014
Very painful. Lawd! Even had some chest pain when I read this news!
PoliticsRe: How President Jonathan Protects Boko Haram Sponsors by NaMe4: 4:04am On Aug 04, 2014
Hmmmm
CultureRe: Top 6 Abnormalities That Are Normal In Nigeria by NaMe4: 3:39am On Aug 04, 2014
Taking politricks to be the most lucrative legal job.

Hailing politicians for a job well done at impoverishing communities.

Producing 'recommendation' letter from Mr. Politician at the top to secure a FG job which has had 'no vacancy' for over two years.

Secretaries in Government Offices/Parastatals having grandeus delusions of being 'Madam/Oga' at the top.
PoliticsRe: Arrested Suspect Reveals That Dokubo Asari Paid Them To Kill Buhari by NaMe4: 2:13pm On Jul 28, 2014
Obiagelli: We received reports Yesterday that the clearly
homosexual cross-dresser suspect arrested at the site
of the bomb explosion on Maj. General Buhari’s life
at Kawo market in Kaduna, has said that Asari
Dokubo, the Niger Delta terrorizing leader paid N1
million each to five members of the assassination
squad to kill the General last week.
A clearly homosexual man dressed as a woman was
arrested shortly after the attempt on Buhari’s life in
the vicinity of the explosion; and was linked to the
assassination attempt according to the DSS. A suicide
bomber driving a Toyota Sienna chased and rammed
into the General’s car and set off an explosion that
injured three aides and killed over 80 at the market
close by.
However the reality of the story as it’s most obvious
is that the homosexual cross-dresser suspect arrested
likely had no connection to the Buhari bombing.
Remember the suicide bomber chased the Buhari
convoy for a considerable distance before getting
close enough to detonate his bombs at the market. It
is improbable and frankly impossible for the suicide
bomber to have remained unscathed (1), been a
cross-dresser homosexual (2) at the same time and
been caught by the hopeless Nigerian security
services at the scene of the crime (3). That is three
impossibilities of equal weight.
The suicide bomber was definitely blown to bits
when the car exploded killing dozens in the vicinity;
was not gay and was not successfully caught by our
barely existent security men. The Nigerian security
men simply picked up a cross-dresser queer
individual and claimed this was the suspect and later
that he was even the master-mind, to pretend some
efficiency and wash-away the case.
After beating the ‘gajeezeez’ out of the cross-dresser,
he is singing the songs that come to his mind; that
“Asari Dokubo sponsored five of them with 1 million
Naira apiece to kill ex-head of state, General Buhari.”
With the ‘rubbish’ being advertised in this
investigation, the APC has described the handling of
terror and insurgency in Nigeria as clearly beyond
the capacity of the Jonathan government and called
on an urgent international investigation of the
assassination attempt.
Quoting their statement:
“Could the person who drove the vehicle that was
rammed into the General’s convoy have survived the
explosion that was triggered by that action? Could the
innocent passers-by who died in the blast not have
been arrested and paraded as the ‘suspected
masterminds’ if they had survived the blast? Clearly,
the arrest of the pervert and his sickening
description as a ‘suspected mastermind’ have kick-
started the process of muddling the waters, as is
usually the case with such high-profile cases.”
“This is why an urgent international inquiry into the
attack is desirable and imperative, and anyone who is
committed to an impartial probe of the attack on the
opposition leader should embrace our call.” Media
commentators were a bit pleasantly surprised that the
usually doubting Asari Dokubo immediately tweeted
that he believed the assassination; and explained that
he saw it as a plan by elements to cause chaos in
Nigeria to enable a military take-over. Assuming he
is not the prime suspect spilling the beans, this is
evidently some progress in people’s attitudes in
Nigeria.
Nigeria is in perilous times.




www.osundefender.org/?p=179337
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha

When I first heard of a crossdresser being arrested around the scene, I considered the action to be as a result of uncontrolled emotions due to the carnage and everyone would eventually get back to their senses.

But this one wey DSS come dey waste time with this individual sotey e don start dey yarn dust can only be described as hilarious! Make dem free that Dan Daudu abeg make the real perpetrators no dey laff us!
PoliticsRe: Count Us Out Of Threats To Southerners – Middle Belt Youth Congress by NaMe4: 8:20am On Jul 28, 2014
cheesy
HealthRe: NMA Strike Update!! by NaMe4: 5:29am On Jul 27, 2014
Interesting!
PoliticsHouse Committee, Budget Office, NMA In Session On NTA (12:00pm) by NaMe4(op): 12:17pm On Jul 24, 2014
On NTA now (though not live)
Politics24 Hour Curfew In Kaduna by NaMe4(op): 5:16pm On Jul 23, 2014
Just got the news. More details soon.
PoliticsRe: Jonathan Can't Win Any Northern State- Kwankwaso by NaMe4:
Sloan: Jonathan can not win any state in a free and fair election in any country in the world where there are human beings with functional brains! People who have sold their generations and children for a morsel of bread or too myopic or ethnocentric are not real human beings with brains and do not count.
Well, maybe in Nigeria.

Ehen, where are the parties and profiles of
contesting candidates?
PoliticsRe: Students Protest Non-native's Appointment As Amosun's Advise by NaMe4: 3:57am On Jul 23, 2014
Very Unfortunate.

And these are supposed to be part of today's youth expected to bring the desired change to this already dysfunctional nation.

Special adviser! Not even ward head or Councillor or LG Chairman.

seanet01: Why should an Ibo boy be representing Ogun students? Ogun Central Senatorial Youth forum of APC have already made our position
Okay, this is what APC is all about huh
HealthRe: FG Should Stop Doctors From Establishing Private Clinics by NaMe4: 8:53pm On Jul 22, 2014
See Beef!

But if the doctors discharge the patients from hospital, the patients have every right to go back for readmission, abi dem docs hire shekau put for gate?

Na wa o. If Nigerians fit direct dis kain energy towards looters and thieves for government, we for don go far by now. Instead they go dey fight demselves for crumbs!
HealthRe: NMA Strike: Reps, Doctors’ Meeting Deadlocked Again by NaMe4: 8:46pm On Jul 22, 2014
This health sector should be privatised already!!!
HealthRe: NMA Strike: Reps, Doctors’ Meeting Deadlocked Again by NaMe4: 8:36pm On Jul 22, 2014
nhiyo: Efforts by the House of Representatives to resolve the ongoing strike by medical doctors in the country failed again on Monday, as members of the Nigerian Medical Association stuck to their demands.

The House of Representatives Committee on Health, led by Mr. Ndudi Elumelu, had held a meeting for over five hours with the NMA leadership in Abuja, in a bid to call off the strike.

The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Health, Dr. Onyebuchi Chukwu; the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Emeka Worgu; the Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Dr. Bright Okogu; and top officials of the National Salaries and Wages Commission.

A key issue of discord was the N6.7bn arrears of benefits owed the doctors, calculated in the first instance from January to June, 2014.

However, the total amount, reflecting the new rates of the benefits for the entire year, was put at N13bn.

The committee, after a lengthy discussion, was able to extract a commitment from the DG Budget to pay two months of the arrears to the doctors by the end of August.

Okogu had told the committee that the budget office could only source the two months and nothing more because the financial demands of the doctors were not captured in the 2014 budget.

He assured the meeting that the balance of the other months would be provided in the 2015 budget for appropriation by the National Assembly.

At this point, Elumelu, Worgu and Okogu all pleaded with the NMA to suspend the strike.

But the NMA, represented by its First Vice-President, Dr. Titus Ibekwe, rejected the mode of implementation of the payment.

He stated that if the association accepted the two months, the “new rates must also apply in subsequent months” or there was no agreement.

Elumelu and other committee members tried without success to convince the NMA leadership to understand that there was no way the new rate would apply when there was no provision for the money in the budget.

He pleaded, “We are the parliament, we assure you that this money will be put in the 2014 budget. Accept the two months and call off this strike to save lives. If they fail to put the balance in the budget, we will send the budget back to them. [size=16pt]We are saying this on our honour[/size]; get your members to call off this strike.”

Ibekwe and his team went out for a five-minute meeting to consider the position of the committee, only to return with their earlier stance. Ibekwe said much as the NMA appreciated the concern of the House to resolve the crisis, the doctors would not accept the mode of implementation of the payment.

“Our members said we have even granted concessions far beyond our mandate.

“So, our position remains, we accept the two months arrears offered and there must be continuity in reflecting the new rates in subsequent months. This is where we stand,” he added.

Elumelu and other negotiators looked frustrated with the insistence of the NMA not to accede to the pleas to accept the payment proposals, as already made.

Source: Punchng
At bolded. Very Funny!
HealthRe: 5 Great Protein Sources That Aren't Meat by NaMe4: 8:28pm On Jul 22, 2014
Ok
PoliticsRe: Why I Want To Go Into Politics —desmond Elliot by NaMe4: 7:59pm On Jul 22, 2014
Politics is Now the surest way to make a living in Nigeria and that is the Crux of the Country's problems.

When reps dey arrange 40m per quarter as salary (other arrangee dey o), who no go wan represent?

Hard-working Nigerians dey receive 18k salary per month. Even professionals at the highest levels dey struggle to touch 500k per month and you expect the remaining 'MUGUS' to dey look Uche face?
Everybody must get hin constituency. . . Dan ubanka!!!!!!
PoliticsRe: Doctors Or Federal Government : Who Is To Blame? by NaMe4: 8:38am On Jul 22, 2014
Why the docs for that pic carry hair like Mr T own nah?
HealthRe: Doctors In The House; Is It Normal? by NaMe4:
Choicy: No fever just eye turning. It was not done in an hospital. Could it be that the eye turning is a sign of short of blood?
HealthRe: Minister Of Health Warns Doctors by NaMe4: 2:35pm On Jul 20, 2014
This one is one of the worst ministers of health I have known.

He don sign One hundred MOUs, no change!

Mtcheeeeeewwww!!!!!!!
HealthRe: Why Can’t A Matron Take Instruction From Doctor? – Lawmaker by NaMe4: 10:09am On Jul 20, 2014
Ashuale: Nigerians and titles. First day in NYSC camp bayelsa, doctors were asked to come out. Nine persons came out.we were introduced as the doctors for the camp.when we started the camp clinic, we discovered 2 doctors had IMPAIRED MEDICAL JUDGEMENT, patients under their care were getting worse, on investigation, they confessed that they were doctors of optometry.we were shocked.those promising graduates could have died. We need to bring sanity to the health system, we need to remove confusion, we need to stick to our job prescription, we need to love our job be u a nurse, a pharmacist, a lab scientist, a cleaner, a doctor. Inferiority complex and hatred are diseases and they plaguing our health sector. The public is heavily misinformed by JOHESU, they are even more active in this strike spreading misleading information.
Well, this is what persons who reason with facts would want to avoid.
Many Nigerians have lost their lives this way and many more are still damn ignorant.
HealthRe: Consultant Pharmacists; The Impetus For Improved Nigerian Quality Of Health by NaMe4:
adeoladrg: You brought a brilliant argument, which I expected from a brilliant doctor.

About them consulting, you need to know that consultant status is not exclusively for therapeutic fields, it's very diverse. From community to industry to the psychiatric homes to the hospitals.

Somehow, I'm disappointed with your 7th paragraph. If you were a MD, you would know what they call therapeutic monitoring. I admit it's strange to you Nigerian medics that why I'm not surprised by your ignorant contributions.

The key part of your argument says:
Remember the pharmacist is not making the diagnosis and even if he is brought to see every patient for himself, he isn't trained as a doctor to know the pathophysiology, progression, complications and even varying presentations of the same condition!

Yes! Pharmacists are trained in pathology, pathophysiology, progression, complications of the conditions. For those that acquired the PharmD degree. Then undergoing residency is even more training in that same aspect. Pls use Google!
Therapeutic pharmacy has always been an important part of pharmaceutical practice involving pharmaceutical studies and researches within the hospital and clinical trials of various drugs, I would be quite astonished if that has never been within the Nigerian curriculum. But these are different from what I see our dear pharmacists agitating for.

I believe therapeutic pharmacy is what pharmD is all about. But it has always been a part or subspecialty of pharmacy, Why make a big deal out of it? Cos Americans called theirs pharmd? Why can't we incorporate this aspect of pharmacy as a subspecialty in our pharmacy curriculum if indeed it hasn't been so in the past?

It will always be a welcome development to see our pharmacists advance in their various fields/specialties of pharmacy, but interfering with doctors' management of patients as we have seen in some reports here will only create more problems in the health sector.
HealthRe: Consultant Pharmacists; The Impetus For Improved Nigerian Quality Of Health by NaMe4: 10:11am On Jul 13, 2014
Now I'm really getting tired of these baseless arguments.

The so-called senior colleagues in this Johesu group know the limitations and restrictions of these 'consultant Bleep' in these handful of Countries they love citing every second.

I would advise they desist from presenting half-truths to the public in order to gain sympathy online.

Anybody can be a consultant in any field, even a dry cleaner. It is whether the creation of such appointment in a hospital or clinic would make any sense at all.

First of all, I have never seen where someone would be fully employed and still be a consultant in the same job.

Secondly, would the consultant pharmacist have to check every drug prescription from an outpatient clinic? What exactly would be his job description in the hospital?
Consultant pharmacists I know are those who consult in sectors like production, research and their services are employed taking into consideration evident academic qualification of the candidate to be appointed for the specific purpose.

I don't even see any sense in a pharmacist walking round a ward checking and rechecking the prescription of a patient placed on admission.
If the dosage has to be checked after prescription, this can be done at the point of collection of the drug at the pharmacy and if the pharmacist requires clarification regarding the dosage he would contact the doctor for that.

There are certain drugs that can be taken at certain doses for short term for certain conditions. There are certain conditions that may warrant the same drug to be taken for long term and may be at a different dose. Remember the pharmacist is not making the diagnosis and even if he is brought to see every patient for himself, he isn't trained as a doctor to know the pathophysiology, progression, complications and even varying presentations of the same condition!
So what the hell is he occupying space in the ward for? Not to talk of unnecessarily altering prescriptions which would definitely be inevitable and definitely affect the patient's management.

Please, I think every person should genuinely think of improving his own field, with innovative solutions to our healthcare problems instead of all these funny arguments.

If it is about better welfare, working conditions and renumeration, everyone knows the healthcare professionals are poorly paid in Nigeria. That should be directed to the government who should take a bold step for onve to do the right thing. Reduce the cost of governance, divert appropriate funds to the development of key sectors and tackle corruption head-on without fear or favour.
SportsRe: Brazil Vs Netherlands: World Cup 3rd Place (0 - 3) On 12th July 2014 by NaMe4: 10:53pm On Jul 12, 2014
Chai !!!!

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