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Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 9 by sofadj(m): 10:47pm On May 17, 2016 |
olenime: I did |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 9 by sofadj(m): 10:30pm On May 17, 2016 |
Visa approved today at 6:30am. Transcript to come soon 6 Likes |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 9 by sofadj(m): 12:41am On May 17, 2016 |
aadeyi:Thanks bro, i really wanted everything to be perfect. Too bad... Hopefully it wont be an issue... |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 9 by sofadj(m): 12:20am On May 17, 2016 |
Hi guys, interview comes up shortly. Just realised I made a terrible mistake. I used a red background passport on my DS160 form. Should I just forget about the visa for now? Pls what can I do next? |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 7:14am On May 11, 2016 |
please a scammer is a scammer. Many Nigerians (like me) come on Nairaland to make some transactions with some people i have never met. If such persons have been involved in a form of scam before i will like to know especially if there is a proof. Please show it, so i know to stay away from suc people. Also if you make transaction with some people and its taking too long to finalise or it is looking like a fraud, please post it here, even if i was not there when your transaction started, i need to know how it went, if the two parties are trustworthy or not - becasue I may need to have a deal with either party later on. Thanks 3 Likes |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 10:17pm On Apr 30, 2016 |
Help me thank @aadeyi, he made the SEVIS payment for me. God bless you bro 2 Likes |
Celebrities / Re: Tiwa Savage's Marriage To Teebillz Is Over - Tiwa Reveals In An Interview by sofadj(m): 11:50pm On Apr 29, 2016 |
Her body language when she was responding to questions about her infidelity was awkward. |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 11:21am On Apr 27, 2016 |
dramaka: wakanow.com |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 2:55pm On Apr 26, 2016 |
gunther6: Please oga, me sef wan pay o. Ive sent you mails. Please kindly check your inbox |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 4:20pm On Apr 20, 2016 |
purplesummer: Apparrently, i was checking the wrong mail |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 12:14pm On Apr 20, 2016 |
purplesummer: Hi i sent you a PM, hope you dont mind. pls kindly check up. thanks |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 11:36am On Apr 20, 2016 |
drOdu: congrats bro |
Romance / Re: When You Love Yourself by sofadj(m): 12:54am On Apr 16, 2016 |
hmmmmmm 1 Like |
Romance / Re: Why We Cheat; My Personal Experience by sofadj(m): 12:52am On Apr 16, 2016 |
Really, you are that petty? You're going to allow these ladies whom you tagged "rickety looking" and 'chicken legged" to influence how you live your life henceforth? If their actions is powerful enough to influence your behaviour henceforth then you're probably just "immature" as they said. 5 Likes |
Family / Re: The 21st Century Woman; A Recipe For Temptation by sofadj(m): 8:25pm On Apr 11, 2016 |
mimzy: Why generalize? |
Romance / Re: Which Of These Body Stature Do Women Love Most. by sofadj(m): 7:00pm On Apr 11, 2016 |
Decker: How can you just sit in the comfort of your zone and invent these statistics and figures confidently? As in with all authority! I hail you o |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 8:56pm On Apr 06, 2016 |
don4ye: payment for what? |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 3:00pm On Apr 05, 2016 |
slimmy2005: Sent you a mail. please kindly check and reply urgently 1 Like |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 1:34pm On Apr 04, 2016 |
Pls anyone here who could help with payment of SEVIS fee? |
Romance / Re: Mother Is Sleeping With 15 Yr Old Son, They Have A Baby Together by sofadj(m): 1:06pm On Apr 04, 2016 |
So his son is also his brother. |
Romance / Re: Five Disadvantages Of Dating A Lady Who Has Been Heartbroken At Least Twice!!! by sofadj(m): 1:02pm On Apr 04, 2016 |
its not just about ladies, when trusts are betrayed, people generally tend to become "careful" with future relationships 2 Likes |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 3:33pm On Apr 03, 2016 |
slimmy2005: Thanks don4ye:] Thanks |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 3:09pm On Apr 03, 2016 |
Please can one pay Sevis fee via debit card. And how long does it usually take before getting receipt ? |
Health / Re: How Some Private Hospitals Mistreat Patients by sofadj(m): 11:37am On Apr 03, 2016 |
teechudleyy: powerdiode: People here keep telling you that healthcare is expensive, because in your posts you kept emphasising the amount you paid - making it seem like you paid a huge amount. Let me state what most patients and relatives don't know. Healthcare is not just expensive, some charges are quatifiable most are not quantifiable. Patients usually try to quantify the costs ( making the hospital seem like its a bakery or pharmacy store) when they come up with story such as they only gave drip and 2 tablets and asked me to pay 15,000 - how do you pay for the knowledge behind that decision?. Hello, its not the drip or the tablet that he is selling - you could get that from a pharmacy store. It is the knowledge of the service that he is rendering that he is charging. If you did not go to the hospital, could you have known if that friend sustained a fracture or not, could you have known what tests you needed? Could you have known if the discomfort you felt in your breast which scared you was cancer or not. You go to a lawyer and he tells you what to do without selling you anything and charges you N20,000 for just giving his informed opinion on an issue. Some agents charge 50,000 or more for just telling you the process to get some things done. But when people come to hospitals they come with calculators in their head trying to calculate number of drips and cotton wool used. Since you know how much cotton wool and spirit costs why not go to where they're being sold and help yourself with it. 7 Likes |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 8:46am On Apr 03, 2016 |
Please can one pay Sevis fee via debit card. And how long does it usually take before getting receipt ? |
Health / Re: How Some Private Hospitals Mistreat Patients by sofadj(m): 11:20pm On Apr 02, 2016 |
Im not defending our healthcare cause we all know it leaves so much to be desired. But I laugh when atients expect the kind of treatment they watch in movies but are only able to pay 2% of what these guys pay in other countries. See despite those bills you people complain of as being exorbitant, many private hospitals can't even pay for the services of a permanent doctor. That's why you go to some hospitals and they say they ask you to wait for them to call a doctor. Healthcare is that expensive. if you were to take your mum who suffered stroke to one of those hospitals in the foreign movies we watch, guess how much you would have paid without insurance? 2 Likes |
Health / Re: How Some Private Hospitals Mistreat Patients by sofadj(m): 11:08pm On Apr 02, 2016 |
This particular thread is filled with many ignorant posts. Most of the things the OP complained of are not even malpractices. There are serious malpractices going on in private hospitals, but these things you wrote, well except for poor communication are all normal. |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 11:19pm On Mar 30, 2016 |
I intend to relocate to US but i don't expect it to be all smooth and easy afterall most good things don't come easy. You think its easy to leave your country to another without struggling? Even Israelites that left Egypt to the promise land , their eyes saw WHEHNNN!!!! |
Travel / Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 8 by sofadj(m): 11:59am On Mar 26, 2016 |
How can one get dollars in order to pay for tuition in American schools? And at what rate? Thanks |
Health / Her Blood Is Not On My Hands - The Travails Of A Nigerian Medical Doctor by sofadj(m): 2:50pm On Mar 23, 2016 |
I own a hospital in Southwest- (not Osun state Nigeria ...lol). I currently have about 17 patients on my ward each of whom I have admitted at several occasions through emergency. None of these patients has paid upto 30% of his/her bill. Some of them have stayed upto 7 weeks on the ward. I admitted and attended to them based on the fact that their conditions were life-threatening as at the time they came. I made their bill known to them - and they signed before they were treated. But there is a common trend, as soon as they felt relief and became stable they pleaded for their bills to be reduced - this I vehemently refused. About 4 weeks ago a woman was rushed in with Eclampsia having just convulsed while pregnant and she was unconscious. I promptly took her straight to the theatre without collecting a dime though i had informed the relatives of the charges - #120,000 for her operation and medications. They signed and I carried out the surgery succesfully. Mother and baby survived. Within the following 6-days they paid a total sum of #12,000 and they began pleading to go home for the child's christening ceremony. I looked at them with disdain. Till now, they have only managed to pay a total sum of #14,000. Another man who was managed for strangulated hernia has only paid 20,000 out of 75,000 bill. And the list goes on. Their failure to pay has made it difficult for the hospital to replace consumables and medications needed to manage other people's condition. In the early hours of today 1:30am, a woman was rushed into the hospital following delivery at the referrral center. Blood had refused to stop gushing out. I did a quick assesment and realised she would need more materials than the hospital pharmacy currently had in store. I could have my staff get from a nearby pharmacy too. However, the husband said he had no money on him and so did the numerous relatives that accompanied. It was indeed a familiar pattern. I decided to let them go. I referred her to a government hospital. Ofcourse they pleaded for me to help but there was nothing I could do. Few minutes after they left - just few metres from my hospital gate, she collapsed. She had lost a lot of blood. I rushed there and rigorously tried resuscitating her right there outside the hospital 2am early morning, but all efforts proved abortive. A young woman of 28years had just died after having her first baby. Screams, wails, cries ensued. I felt bad - this is not why i became a doctor. But her blood is not on my hands. Her blood is on the hands and heads of all the patients on the ward who can afford to pay but refused to - on the grounds that - "What will they do?. Her blood is on the hands and heads of the government officials past and present who have made it difficult and impossible for workers to get paid for their work. But the government officials are not the target of this my narrat. It is aimed at those who take hospital healthcare and medical doctors for granted. Those (including myself) who emphasise that doctors should not put money first before treating emergency conditions. In emergency cases, relatives would go to any length through any struggle to get money. As soon as the situation becomes calm, they relax and then they refuse to pay. Last year a distant relative of mine was delivered of her baby via Caesearian section (in a hospital in Lagos- not mine). They were billed #180,000 which they accepted before the operation. After the surgery, her husband called me and asked how much I charge and i told him. He then began pleading with the management of the said hospital to review his bill. They declined. The husband being who he is, paid #120,000 and absconded with his wife and his newly born son. How he did this, I do not know, but i know that at the christening ceremony a week later, he had two cows slaughtered to celebrate the birth of his first son. Many times we complain of doctors who ask for charges before treating patients but no one has ever bothered to ask the doctors why they do? Doctors are humans too, we need to pay bills. This is our trade, our profession, our means of livelihood. We have needs too. We can not go to the market place with the ID showing that we're doctors and hope to get food items on credit. We need to pay our children's school fees, we need clothes , shelter etc just as you. Everywhere in the world healthcare is expensive, both services and materials are exepensive. Well we understand that you may not have money. The government should find a way. The government should find a way/policy that ensures that we get our money back after we have rendered our service. In the UK there is the National Health Scheme, in the United states they have health insurance schemes too in addition to Medicare, Medicaid. In Nigeria we have the barely effective, poorly regulated and massively corrupt National Health Insurance Scheme. Well i have decided to change the modus operandi of my institution. The previous one has not benefitted anybody. Henceforth if any one comes to my emergency room without a dime. I will not attend to. If such a person dies, the blood is not on my hands, its on the hands of those who have received treatment in the past and failed to pay afterwards. 428 Likes 73 Shares |
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