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My mum, Mrs Joy Nkemakom Udeagbala fell ill early into 2015, in January. She had complications of typhoid and maleria which she has been treating and managing for years. After some prescribed drugs from a pharmacy store seem ineffective, I personally took her to Amaku General Hospital in Awka, upon getting there we were asked to sit over the counter until a doctor sees us to acertain what to do next. Already looking physically weak, we stayed there for hours "in waiting" for a doctor. At last he shows up took some tests and asked that she should be admitted, so was done.
The ward were she was kept was infested with mosquitos and all manner of insects, that aside she wasn't responding to treatment. We were discharged days after, even when her situation has become worse that it were when we first came. We still stayed behind, as my late mum was looking so fragile and weak. I was begging anyone who would listen to me to please assist us, we were ignored by the medical practitioners at the hospital, at some point my mum could no long walk or even stand on her feet. The nurses took her finally to the emergency ward, where she was abandoned and left at the mercy of medical students. My mum finally gave up on 2nd of February 2015.
Although it's been more than five years since this sad event occurred, me and my siblings are yet to over the traumatic experience we had to pass through.

So sorry for your loss dear...


If to say money dy now...gather your facts right and sue their asses to court!

Bros, you too, failed her.
Which complications of typhoid and malaria did she have, and had been having for years??
Why is every sickness interpreted as typhoid and malaria in Nigeria??
And you were buying drugs from the pharmacy to treat those so-called, self-diagnosed complications of typhoid and malaria, instead of going to the hospital for early and proper diagnosis and care.
You only went to the hospital when her condition had already became critical and probably irreversible, and then, expected a miracle to happen.
That's the usual trend in Nigeria.
Bros, the negligence, misdiagnosis, and wrong treatment started from you. There's no complications of malaria and typhoid one could suffer for years, especially in this era of bountiful antibiotics and antimalarials.
Your mother was most probably never correctly diagnosed till her death, and you contributed significantly to that.
Let us always play our own roles properly first, before expecting others to do same to theirs.
May her gentle soul continue to rest peacefully in the Lord.

She had typhoid and have been managing it for years, if you have nothing reasonable to say why not shut your pile hole up and keep your leprosious comment to yourself.

ChybuzzDD:
Bros, you too, failed her.
Which complications of typhoid and malaria did she have, and had been having for years??
Why is every sickness interpreted as typhoid and malaria in Nigeria??
And you were buying drugs from the pharmacy to treat those so-called, self-diagnosed complications of typhoid and malaria, instead of going to the hospital for early and proper diagnosis and care.
You only went to the hospital when her condition had already became critical and probably irreversible, and then, expected a miracle to happen.
That's the usual trend in Nigeria.
Bros, the negligence, misdiagnosis, and wrong treatment started from you. There's no complications of malaria and typhoid one could suffer for years, especially in this era of bountiful antibiotics and antimalarials.
Your mother was most probably never correctly diagnosed till her death, and you contributed significantly to that.
Let us always play our own roles properly first, before expecting others to do same to theirs.
May her gentle soul continue to rest peacefully in the Lord.

ChybuzzDD:
Bros, you too, failed her.
Which complications of typhoid and malaria did she have, and had been having for years??
Why is every sickness interpreted as typhoid and malaria in Nigeria??
And you were buying drugs from the pharmacy to treat those so-called, self-diagnosed complications of typhoid and malaria, instead of going to the hospital for early and proper diagnosis and care.
You only went to the hospital when her condition had already became critical and probably irreversible, and then, expected a miracle to happen.
That's the usual trend in Nigeria.
Bros, the negligence, misdiagnosis, and wrong treatment started from you. There's no complications of malaria and typhoid one could suffer for years, especially in this era of bountiful antibiotics and antimalarials.
Your mother was most probably never correctly diagnosed till her death, and you contributed significantly to that.
Let us always play our own roles properly first, before expecting others to do same to theirs.
May her gentle soul continue to rest peacefully in the Lord.

True.

udeagbalaC:
She had typhoid and have been managing it for years, if you have nothing reasonable to say why not shut your pile hole up and keep your leprosious comment to yourself.

Sorry for your loss and may her soul continue to RIP.
However what the other poster wrote is not far from the truth. You were managing typhoid for years? When did typhoid fever become chronically symptomatic?
Who was managing the typhoid?


Truth be told ChibuzzDD is very correct in his/her comment.

Kinematics wene badu.

udeagbalaC:
She had typhoid and have been managing it for years, if you have nothing reasonable to say why not shut your pile hole up and keep your leprosious comment to yourself.

Shut up, my friend and learn!
Your mother didn't have any typhoid she was managing for years.
Those who carry typhoid for years are asymptomatic(they're called chronic carriers, and have no symptoms).
Besides, typhoid is not even that common in Nigeria.
Roadside labs deceived you with their usual ''significant titres'' after a Widal test.
Did you do a blood or urine culture to confirm she had typhoid?
Typhoid diagnosis is a scam in Nigeria. The true incidence is very very low, and the confirmatory test is with blood/urine culture, which no lab does in Nigeria.

You contributed to the negligence via self diagnosis and wrong treatment with your over-the-counter drugs.
Learn not to do the same with your wife in order not to get the same result.

People are less passionate this days, how could ppl go as far as insinuating that due poor choice decision on my part I contributed to her death. We were constrained financially as a result of we weren't able to get admitted into a good hospital.
I'm a health expert to know if typhoid was a mild or killer disease.

udeagbalaC:
People are less passionate this days, how could ppl go as far as insinuating that due poor choice decision on my part I contributed to her death. We were constrained financially as a result of we weren't able to get admitted into a good hospital.
I'm a health expert to know if typhoid was a mild or killer disease.

Well it's very sad she died that way. I can feel your pain but from your post I can tell she had something else besides typhoid. Was there intestinal perforation?

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ChybuzzDD:
Shut up, my friend and learn!
Your mother didn't have any typhoid she was managing for years.
Those who carry typhoid for years are asymptomatic(they're called chronic carriers, and have no symptoms).
Besides, typhoid is not even that common in Nigeria.
Roadside labs deceived you with their usual ''significant titres'' after a Widal test.
Did you do a blood or urine culture to confirm she had typhoid?
Typhoid diagnosis is a scam in Nigeria. The true incidence is very very low, and the confirmatory test is with blood/urine culture, which no lab does in Nigeria.

You contributed to the negligence via self diagnosis and wrong treatment with your over-the-counter drugs.
Learn not to do the same with your wife in order not to get the same result.

At the bolded I beg to differ. Blood and stool culture is done in naija. Even mushroom labs do it, just that majority of Nigerians even some health professionals will do just one widal test and say you have typhoid.

Then some of my colleagues look at what patients can afford and write for them. Many people cant afford 3.5k or more to do stool culture, so they do widal which is just 1.5k or less.

No, although in her dead bed she developed virginal cancer

Kinematics:
Well it's very sad she died that way. I can feel your pain but from your post I can tell she had something else besides typhoid. Was there intestinal perforation?

udeagbalaC:
No, although in her dead bed she developed virginal cancer

Now you are talking. I have always believe that she had comordity.

Kinematics:
Now you are talking. I have always believe that she had comordity.

PORT HARCOURT slum dweller. You don run back to this place. Come back to our thread nah.

udeagbalaC:
People are less passionate this days, how could ppl go as far as insinuating that due poor choice decision on my part I contributed to her death. We were constrained financially as a result of we weren't able to get admitted into a good hospital.
I'm a health expert to know if typhoid was a mild or killer disease.

Sorry, about that.
The main problem that led to the self diagnosis and treatment, and then late presentation to hospital was financial constraints.
It's good this finally came out, though I had to force it out from you.
From my experience while working in Nigeria, I know to a very reasonable extent that patients and relatives don't always say things the way they really are.
I can also swear that your mom didn't die of typhoid and malaria.
I know how many people that have died with their problems undiagnosed as a result of this malaria and typhoid stuff.
Your mom lives in a better world wherever she is.

udeagbalaC:
No, although in her dead bed she developed virginal cancer

That's it. Vaginal(or most probably cervical cancer) was the culprit here, and not malaria and typhoid.
This was the point I have been trying to raise.
The emphasis on malaria and typhoid by both patients and healthcare professionals in Nigeria is causing a lot of harm.
I lost a very good friend last year who spent months treating malaria and typhoid, while what he actually had was leukaemia. By the time leukaemia was diagnosed, it was already very late.
The worse is that I heard that most Nigerian patients now go to the hospitals when sick and asked to be treated for malaria and typhoid, without giving the healthcare personnel the freedom to evaluate and make their own diagnosis.
I wish such ugly trends should change, as they lead to misdiagnosis, wrong treatment, delayed diagnosis and poor outcomes.
Once again, I wish your mom everlasting peace in eternity.

Kinematics:
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At the bolded I beg to differ. Blood and stool culture is done in naija. Even mushroom labs do it, just that majority of Nigerians even some health professionals will do just one widal test and say you have typhoid.

Then some of my colleagues look at what patients can afford and write for them. Many people cant afford 3.5k or more to do stool culture, so they do widal which is just 1.5k or less.

Nna, I've never heard of anyone requesting for blood/stool/urine culture for Salmonella typhi in Nigeria.
I wasn't referring to cultures in general for other organisms/diagnoses, but for Typhoid/Enteric fever in particular.
That's very very rare.
They rely on a single Widal test, which will show a "significant titre" even for me that haven't been around for some years.
This has been made worse by the roadside laboratories that have started reporting their own "significant titres" even from 1/80, instead of the >1/160 we were taught in schools.

ChybuzzDD:
Bros, you too, failed her.
Which complications of typhoid and malaria did she have, and had been having for years??
Why is every sickness interpreted as typhoid and malaria in Nigeria??
And you were buying drugs from the pharmacy to treat those so-called, self-diagnosed complications of typhoid and malaria, instead of going to the hospital for early and proper diagnosis and care.
You only went to the hospital when her condition had already became critical and probably irreversible, and then, expected a miracle to happen.
That's the usual trend in Nigeria.
Bros, the negligence, misdiagnosis, and wrong treatment started from you. There's no complications of malaria and typhoid one could suffer for years, especially in this era of bountiful antibiotics and antimalarials.
Your mother was most probably never correctly diagnosed till her death, and you contributed significantly to that.
Let us always play our own roles properly first, before expecting others to do same to theirs.
May her gentle soul continue to rest peacefully in the Lord.

I can even bet my last kobo that they didn't go to a proper pharmacy to buy the drugs! They'll continue patronizing quacks but when problems arise they claim they went to a pharmacy! I blame PCN sha

ChybuzzDD:
Nna, I've never heard of anyone requesting for blood/stool/urine culture for Salmonella typhi in Nigeria.
I wasn't referring to cultures in general for other organisms/diagnoses, but for Typhoid/Enteric fever in particular.
That's very very rare.
They rely on a single Widal test, which will show a "significant titre" even for me that haven't been around for some years.
This has been made worse by the roadside laboratories that have started reporting their own "significant titres" even from 1/80, instead of the >1/160 we were taught in schools.

Yes it's done. Infact I order for it if I strongly suspect typhoid. Most MDs today you cant even start treating typhoid fever without doing atleast a stool mcs.

Since the advent of HMO you cant even try to manage a patient for typhoid with just widal test.

Yes most government practice (some consultants will break my head for this) in Nigeria still rely on widal test for typhoid, but private has gone far especially those that have retainership with companies.

Dont know where you practice, but in most hospitals in Port Harcourt today you cant manage a patient for typhoid without carrying out a stool mcs atleast.

Gone are those days when you'll just do a widal and say significant tire for enteric fever

I'm sorry for the harsh words used.

ChybuzzDD:
That's it. Vaginal(or most probably cervical cancer) was the culprit here, and not malaria and typhoid.
This was the point I have been trying to raise.
The emphasis on malaria and typhoid by both patients and healthcare professionals in Nigeria is causing a lot of harm.
I lost a very good friend last year who spent months treating malaria and typhoid, while what he actually had was leukaemia. By the time leukaemia was diagnosed, it was already very late.
The worse is that I heard that most Nigerian patients now go to the hospitals when sick and asked to be treated for malaria and typhoid, without giving the healthcare personnel the freedom to evaluate and make their own diagnosis.
I wish such ugly trends should change, as they lead to misdiagnosis, wrong treatment, delayed diagnosis and poor outcomes.
Once again, I wish your mom everlasting peace in eternity.

ChybuzzDD:
Shut up, my friend and learn!
Your mother didn't have any typhoid she was managing for years.
Those who carry typhoid for years are asymptomatic(they're called chronic carriers, and have no symptoms).
Besides, typhoid is not even that common in Nigeria.
Roadside labs deceived you with their usual ''significant titres'' after a Widal test.
Did you do a blood or urine stool culture to confirm she had typhoid?
Typhoid diagnosis is a scam in Nigeria. The true incidence is very very low, and the confirmatory test is with blood/urine stool culture, which no lab does in Nigeria.

You contributed to the negligence via self diagnosis and wrong treatment with your over-the-counter drugs.
Learn not to do the same with your wife in order not to get the same result.

You can also detect typhoid with immunological tests IgG/M test for salmonella. Better and quicker

Sorry for your loss, from your final post, it is clear your mother most likely died of cervical/vagina cancer. You guys have been self prescribing for her treating malaria and typhoid she never had.