dryakson: seriously, I forget when last I Visit hospital for medical check up.

What will be the remedy please

the remedy will be to figure out which one of those u have and treat that. Go to a doc around your place to find which one u have.

@OP Damn is it by force that a Northerner or a southerner must rule the country? Let the person who can convince the people that they are the best leader run the place, this is supposed to be government of leadership. A northerner or southerner shouldnt be elcted only a leader should be allowed to sit in that seat. This is why we are getting nowhere fast, as soon as we are able to do the above effectively then we will be in a better place...

Nigeria: RX for Nigeria

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201401060365.html?viewall=1

Nigeria narrowly missed starting 2014 in crisis after government officials met with doctors' union last week to avert full-blown strike by doctors.

The strike, earlier planned to start today, may have been averted, but issues that led the country down that road are still present.

Though some of those issues get attention, here's a to-do list for health in 2014.

Political commitment

Analysts suggest political will to improve healthcare is poor because commitment is weak. Federal, state and local governments allocate measly funds to health, and release of such funds is inadequate, they argue.

What best depicts low political commitment is the "frequent travels abroad to seek medical care" by political and public office holders, says Nigerian Medical Association.

Money, money, money

Despite calls and urgings, health spending still falls below 15% of national budget stipulated by signatories--including Nigeria--of the Abuja Declaration of African Heads of State.

Health unions complain spending for 2014 is even less than what health got last year.

Security

Demand came last year for improved security for health workers, including police posts on the premises of hospitals, after some 13 immunisation officials on vaccination duty were shot dead in Kano and doctors assaulted by police in Bama, Borno.

Deficits.

Deficiencies in equipment and infrastructure continue to be a thorny issue, despite millions of naira spent to put them right. Doctors highlighted the deficits in an ultimatum last September. In response, the federal government promises fast action in a special fund to intervene in upgrade and facilities.

Framework.

Experts think the National Health Bill might rest some of the uncertainties, but the bill itself has been beset with controversies until now. Just how health is supposed to run in Nigeria is still debatable. Nigerians know what to expect from different levels of government, but almost cannot hold any--or even health professionals--accountable.

The bill, for instance, mandates states to have individual primary healthcare boards, allowing them to access health-development funds. So far, only 27 states have a board. Both National Assembly and House of Representatives have indicated they could pass the bill this year.

The hands that work

Human resource is big issue. What Nigeria has as healthworkers is grossly inadequate for its population, and whats available is poorly distributed. For instance, it could take 80 years for the number of doctors to become adequate to the population, according to a survey of health workforce last year.

Plans to develop human resource are poor in recruitment, building capacity and defining roles, says Dr Osahon Enabulele, president of Nigerian Medical Association. Job descriptions are blunted, wages are uncompetitive, working conditions are unsatisfactory and motivation is poor, he adds.

By virtue of these alone, Nigeria continues to lose thousands of health workers in a steady annual migration to countries as the US, the UK.

At least N246.8 million could go to support nursing services and midwifery scheme this year.

Somebody save me

Universal health coverage is still in bits. The biggest group with coverage is federal civil servants. State civil services are inching toward it and A national hope is to ensure at least 30% of Nigerians get some form of health cover in the next three years, but so far only eight in 100 Nigerians have any cover.

Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu has suggested the National Health Insurance Scheme might need to adopt "aggressive marketing" to push its products, which now include community-based insurance targeting lower income groups.

Quacks and fakes

Negligence in medicine is one thing, but dealing with quacks is another. Professional regulatory bodies talk of tightening procedures, but they also request Nigerians to make informed choices and be sharp about what health professionals they visit.

If you are in doubt, demand a second opinion, goes the mantra. In other words, you cannot anymore decide your doctor's words are final. Analysts suggest most fakes are outed when patients question decisions. After all, it is your life.

Doctors have recently called for a stop on "unbridled and indiscriminate" advertisement of herbal and medicinal products on television, radio and in newspapers as well as illegal prescriptions by persons outside licensed doctors, dentists or vets.

Their jobs are regulated by professional bodies, but recently there has been a surge in the number of regulatory agencies.

Referral system

You don't expect your doctor can work magic when you are will. How he is able to move you on to a specialist when he can't handle your situation anymore depends on the strength of the referral system.

But experts say the system is weak, as is the impact of the government on health care delivery.

Managing data

Imagine a story about health without relevance. It is almost impossible, but data about health in Nigeria leave much room for improvement, according to analysts.

The National Demographic Health Survey is the health bible for Nigeria. The last survey in 2008 is expected to give way for the 2013 version-- which is still being compiled and could suck more than N55 million in this year's budget.

A management information system for health is also in the works, alongside policies to implement e-health (costing N80m in the budget).

Tantidora: Pls Dr i want to know, wh@ are the bad effect of contraceptive.
Emergency contraceptive, frenquent use of it...
Says twice in a week

If you use any drug too frequently theres a greater likelyhood of undesirable side effects. These could be Nausea/vomiting, abdominal pain, tiredness, dizziness, changes in vaginal bleeding, breast tenderness, diarrhea, or headache. Also depends on the one you are taking. Honestly its better to just use condoms...much less stress.

Yea u can grow ur butt size with excercises, mostly squats. But u need to do squats with heavier weights to activate the larger fast-twitch muscles that are made for lifting heavy weights.

Causes of Excess salivation can be any one of these :

pregnancy, excessive starch intake, gastroesophageal reflux disease, pancreatitis, liver disease, serotonin syndrome, oral ulcers, and oral infections, nervous system disorders.

Are you on meds?

Im in festac area. Is there a service i can use or something? Im sure that im not the only one who has had this issue. How do i know that the family practitioner is a good one?

How would I go about finding a doctor of a certain specialty around my area? I need to find a doctor specializing in cardiology. Where do i go? Is there a place where there is a list? and are other people experiencing this problem?

The term #occupy__ (<—insert location there) is now synonymous with revolution. Very recently the movement #OccypyNigeria has begun to monopolize a great proportion of the hashtags postings on twitter by Nigerians. The viral vehemence of Nigerians in protest to the indefinite cancellation of the fuel subsidy has tipped over past precarious and tumbled into an abyss of violence,which can only grow deeper. Fires have been lit, shots fired, at least one death has been reported. But, #OccupyNigeria has overshadowed a different protest in the villages…the protest against oil spills blamed on Royal Dutch Shell the biggest oil producer in the coastal region. Lively-hoods ruined, local health compromised, these places could use a little less oil, couldn’t they? But their protest is less violent and apparently not twitter worthy; I havent seen a single ‘#’ in representation of this yet.

Previously, I posted about the the cumulative total of the oil spills that have happened in Nigeria and the detection of benzene, a known carcinogen, at levels reaching over 900 times the safe level in the drinking water of some parts of the Nigerian Delta region (in this post : Oil, Money, Pollution, Public Health). That is, if you consider guzzling benzene-flavored water to be safe at any level. The public health problem has been recognized globally, but what I seem to gather is that until it hurts the pockets of the majority of people directly, we remain pre-occupied rather than compelled to commence the occupying. Its understandable…the pocket is where it hurts the most. While some parts of Nigeria are protesting a harrowing hike in the price of fuel, others in the nation lament oil’s destructive effects on their livelihood and eventually will lament the deterioration of health unless the cleanup takes considerably shorter time than the 30 years predicted. Is there a bigger paradox right now than this?

If the Nigerian federal government was going to revoke the fuel subsidy for the reasons as stated for “projects for the development of the country”, it would be more convincing if they did the following, (full post @ www.uchennaonyekwere.)

, In a picture on Allafrica.com a man was featured defecating directly into a canal in Lagos State. These practices do have an economic effect. The same report as stated in a Vanguard.com article noted that this practice costs $1 billion a year in Nigeria. $2.5 is lost from premature death, 90% of which is due to the consumption of unsanitary water. However, the water issue is not restricted to defecation by people, but also by industries. ,

Full Article at : http://www.kyslife.com/post/9125981070/uchenna-onyekwere-water-contamination

, In a picture on Allafrica.com a man was featured defecating directly into a canal in Lagos State. These practices do have an economic effect. The same report as stated in a Vanguard.com article noted that this practice costs $1 billion a year in Nigeria. $2.5 is lost from premature death, 90% of which is due to the consumption of unsanitary water. However, the water issue is not restricted to defecation by people, but also by industries. ,

Full Article at : http://www.kyslife.com/post/9125981070/uchenna-onyekwere-water-contamination

‘“What they do is a vocation, it is not like the regular jobs. Their calling is to save lives, and they must remember this.”

-Anambra State commissioner for Health, Prof Amobi Ilika

Sleepless nights, blood-shot eyes, tear-soaked pillow-cases, and thoughts of inadequacy are commonly characteristic of a study day for a Doctor-in training. The unfathomably mind-twisting life of a medical student promises to lead to a fulfilling career of life-saving, appreciation, respect, and stability. However, before choosing this path, its prospective matriculants are prudently advised not to choose this career for the money. To be a doctor, is to have power, and with great power comes great responsibility. The Nigerian Medical Association doctors and health workers strike in Anambra State is a sufficient example of what happens when responsibility is neglected by doctors…or an example of what occurs when doctors, who remember being sleep-deprived medical students are not given what they are promised for the work they do, Full Article @ : http://www.kyslife.com/post/8647355541/a-moral-dilema-the-doctors-strike-anambra-state

‘“What they do is a vocation, it is not like the regular jobs. Their calling is to save lives, and they must remember this.”

-Anambra State commissioner for Health, Prof Amobi Ilika

Sleepless nights, blood-shot eyes, tear-soaked pillow-cases, and thoughts of inadequacy are commonly characteristic of a study day for a Doctor-in training. The unfathomably mind-twisting life of a medical student promises to lead to a fulfilling career of life-saving, appreciation, respect, and stability. However, before choosing this path, its prospective matriculants are prudently advised not to choose this career for the money. To be a doctor, is to have power, and with great power comes great responsibility. The Nigerian Medical Association doctors and health workers strike in Anambra State is a sufficient example of what happens when responsibility is neglected by doctors…or an example of what occurs when doctors, who remember being sleep-deprived medical students are not given what they are promised for the work they do, Full Article @ : http://www.kyslife.com/post/8647355541/a-moral-dilema-the-doctors-strike-anambra-state

Nde wooo unu. Aham bu Uchenna Onyekwere. This is the first time I am seeing people speak full undiluted igbo. Where I am from we always mix in english and igbo-ize the english words lol.

I have been told many times by my parents the phrase "I will kick you out of this house" and Ive done very little to dissapoint. I am currently a medical student and they are all proud of me, but they used to say it all the time on my way up. I have friends that have been kicked out many times for minor issues. Is that just our culture? Are we able to sever attachments and emotions for our loved ones so easily? Even in this article at kyslife.com there was a girl featured who was disowned by her family when she was diagnosed with AIDS rather than supported. The only way for the girl to live a full productive life would be to have support from her family. Thats what family is for. It baffles me because we are such a family oriented society, especially Igbos, and we do this so easily. Is our love for family members so fleeting? Here is an excerpt from the article:

“…she was disowned and rejected by everyone around as they unanimously concluded that she ‘will infect others with the virus if I stay in the same compound with them or relate with them….”’ , Humans are a social creature…the joy of being one lies in the mere presence of another. It is the people around that make it hellish for the patient, not the disease itself. There are many who live with the virus inconspicuously due to either proper treatment of the virus or the incubation phase of HIV’s pathogenic propagation. HIV patients are often stigmatized because of how it is transmitted. As many know, HIV is a sexually transmitted disease and also transmitted through contact with the blood of an infected person. You can imagine the types of stigma that come with being a victim. Stigmatization only causes the victim to be less likely to seek help. We become perpetuators, full article @

http://www.kyslife.com/#!/post/8217901165/living-with-hiv-in-nigeria-she-was-disowned

“….UNEP scientists found an 8cm layer of refined oil floating on the groundwater which serves the wells. This was reportedly linked to an oil spill which occurred more than six years ago…”

                                         -234Next

The dreaded words “oil-spill” causes readers to conjure up images of helpless fish lying dead upon the blackened sands of polluted beaches or wetlands and the all too familiar sea-faring bird weighed down by a liquid crust of the oxymoronic “black gold”. Its, all too familiar because oil spills are far too common. Until now, the frequency of oil spillage in nigeria was less than an afterthought. In the preceding infographic, Nigerian oil spills are not even listed. Click the picture to enlarge it, meanwhile the people in the region will suffer from chemical contamination by carcinogens such as benzene for the duration of a cleanup that should never have been required. At one location, Nisisioken Ogale, the amount of benzene found in drinking wells was at levels 900 times safe levels as determined by the world health organization Full article at http://www.kyslife.com/post/8519115267/oil-money-pollution-publichealth

“….UNEP scientists found an 8cm layer of refined oil floating on the groundwater which serves the wells. This was reportedly linked to an oil spill which occurred more than six years ago…”

                                         -234Next

The dreaded words “oil-spill” causes readers to conjure up images of helpless fish lying dead upon the blackened sands of polluted beaches or wetlands and the all too familiar sea-faring bird weighed down by a liquid crust of the oxymoronic “black gold”. Its, all too familiar because oil spills are far too common. Until now, the frequency of oil spillage in nigeria was less than an afterthought. In the preceding infographic, Nigerian oil spills are not even listed. Click the picture to enlarge it, meanwhile the people in the region will suffer from chemical contamination by carcinogens such as benzene for the duration of a cleanup that should never have been required. At one location, Nisisioken Ogale, the amount of benzene found in drinking wells was at levels 900 times safe levels as determined by the world health organization  Full article at http://www.kyslife.com/post/8519115267/oil-money-pollution-publichealth

, Religion, in times of turmoil brings people together, and also has a healing quality to it. I call it a placebo effect. In clinical trials placebos are given as a control variable for the experiment, and many times the otherwise bogus treatment is actually shown to have a measurable effect. According to cancer.org “Even though placebos do not act on the disease, they seem to have an effect in about 1 out of 3 patients.”, For example, many Jehova’s Witness patients have died because they refuse blood transfusions as dictated by their religion. But for a lot of others, belief can be powerful medicine aside from diffuse displays of religious extremism. In Nigeria, religion has a big presence in health , Full Article Here :

http://www.kyslife.com/post/8343011442/religion-the-ultimate-placebo-the-irony-of

Religion…The Ultimate Placebo —- “The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end… Plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live.” - Bill Maher

I was watching Bill Maher on HBO with my father on Saturday, and the one thing I took away from it was his opinion about organized religion which is exemplified by the above statement. Who can fault him for how he views religion? Recently in Nigeria, there have been several fatal attacks by an Islamic extremist group called Boko Haram, who’s aim is the Islamisation of Nigeria, Full Article Here: http://www.kyslife.com/post/8343011442/religion-the-ultimate-placebo-the-irony-of

I am trying to perfect my igbo. My friend showed me this course you can take online on igbo at http://www.igboteacher.com/ . I havent tried it yet myself. but anyone who does, please let me know how u liked it.

It is not a matter of can we have a nuclear power plant but a matter of can we MAINTAIN it? We have not been able to maintain a constant electricity supply from less dangerous means thus far. Last time I was in Lagos, there was not a day where the light did not cut off. Nuclear power plants can have meltdowns, and if we are not ready for it, this could be dangerous to our people. The effects of a meltdown can cause genetic abnormalities that may not see relief for generations. Lets walk before we start trying to learn to drive.

I am sorry if this has already been said, but here is what I feel. Capitalism, or communism can be beneficial to the people when there are appropriate regulations placed on its practice. I feel like capitalism is just manipulation of human nature. A person has a product that is in demand so people that want it will naturally pay a price to get it. If you are the only one selling a quality product then it is human nature to monopolize so that you can eliminate competition, can rise prices and reap the rewards. It is not health for any economy. Unchecked capitialism leads to the rich getting rich and the poor getting poorer as we are seeing currently in america with the economic crash. But with regulation, capitalism can offer opportunities to the poor, who can potentially break out of poverty and become rich. Unchecked communism is the same way. Imagine if everyone earned the same amount no matter how much work you do? Where is the incentive to continue working? If I am not mistaken, runaway communism led to the fall of the soviet union. My point is, capitalism or communism whichever you prefer, can each be beneficial to the people when practiced in a balanced fashion.

, In South Africa, some believed that you could cure HIV by having sex with a virgin or a child. An act of desperation, due to ignorance. In countries such as Swaziland, the HIV rates are almost 30% as a combined result of inadequate health care, post-war destruction, and most importantly, poverty-induced desperation. It is the number one rate in the world. Nigeria’s rate is closer to 3.6%. For HIV patients in Nigeria or Swaziland or anywhere, it is more helpful to curb ostracizing of HIV patients for the greater good. More focus should be placed on helping the person to live a longer healthier life with the support of their immediate social network.

Full article here ----> http://www.kyslife.com/post/8217901165/living-with-hiv-in-nigeria-she-was-disowned

, The author who wrote the above article titled it : Living In Nigeria with Aids is Hellish. Humans are a social creature…the joy of being one lies in the mere presence of another. It is the people around that make it hellish for the patient, not the disease itself. There are many who live with the virus inconspicuously due to either proper treatment of the virus or the incubation phase of HIV’s pathogenic propagation. HIV patients are often stigmatized because of how it is transmitted. As many know, HIV is a sexually transmitted disease and also transmitted through contact with the blood of an infected person. You can imagine the types of stigma that come with being a victim. Stigmatization only causes the victim to be less likely to seek help. We become perpetuators rather than problem solvers by stigmatizing. In Nigeria, stories such as this are not so uncommon for HIV patients. Our people tend to be more conservative and this causes us to judge before we understand the facts, Full Article At ---> http://www.kyslife.com/post/8217901165/living-with-hiv-in-nigeria-she-was-disowned

, Today in celebration of World Hepatitis Day we as a human race recognize the great progress made in prevention and major steps taken towards the fruition inherent in its eventual eradication. Of the five types of hepatitis (A-E), vaccines are available for all except C, thanks to the decades of dedicated research completed by scientists. There is multinational availability of hepatitis vaccines, however a great number still do not have adequate access to quality healthcare,

Full article here : http://www.kyslife.com/post/8174864468/hepatitisday-hepaware-500-million-persons

What do you think about hepatitis in terms of its prevalence in Nigeria?