There is something bothering my mind for sometime now. I know this issue will be controversial in nature and will require serious scrutiny, but I want others to provide the much needed answers to this burning issue that has wrecked havoc in many a family and some serious relationships.
I am very much aware of the caliber of people that browse this site. As such I look forward to a critical analysis of this thorny issue.
Sometimes when people get sick and report to the hospital for treatment, they sometimes get fed up with the type of treatments given by qualified medical practitioners. They tend to prefer going to the native doctors and getting the type of cure that is given there.
I don’t have anything against native doctors or people that take treatments from them, but the nature and manner they practice their brand of medicine baffles me. I will tell you a story to buttress this story.
One lady got sick and went to a real hospital to get treated. She was diagnosed to have typhoid fever. Drugs were procured for her and she continued to take her drugs. Ten days later her condition was not getting any better. So her close friends suggested she must have another problem and needs to see a pastor. The ‘prayer warrior’ pastor, after a prayer session, informed the family that the girl was poisoned.
A nearby native doctor was contacted to flush the poison and he gave some serious concoctions to the lady to drink to flush this ‘poison.’ After the lady drank the said drugs, she got sicker, she can’t stool or urinate again as her stomach started swelling up. She was in this condition for four days!
The girl, sorry lady was removed from the prayer house and taken away on a 7 hour drive back to her home town. The aged mother, (around 70, illiterate) upon hearing that her daughter was poisoned quickly suggested where to take the now unconscious lady to yet another native doctor to do the double flush. The next day the lady was transported to yet another town for a proper flush. They told her an enemy has planted poison inside her.
This is when my friend got to know about this for the first time, they demanded to use his car to transport the lady to the village where she will receive treatment. He asked them to visit a hospital a stone throw away but the family refused, insisting that this is a case of poison and should only be cured by traditional means.
At the centre, the native doctor took a look at the lady and demanded to have one drug, he requested the family to get a white bucket and watch what the lady will vomit out. First, he demanded the sum of N360, 000.00 as the money the family should get together before treatment will commence! At that point I couldn’t listen again; I stood up and left his house.
Now consider these;
What is this native doctor treating, drug complications or poison?
Why didn’t this native doctor run other tests on this lady?
Supposing more complications arise from this new drugs?
Are we even sure its poison that was given to this lady?
What was the name of the drug that was given to the lady at first and what are its contra indications?
Or is it that, I dont know what I am talking about?
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The decay in the Nigerian health sector is totaly a bad phenomenon. Speaking as a fresh B.Sc. graduate of Biochemistry, i have observed that the Doctors/health care workers engage(most often) in a guess work method of diagnosis-particularly the symptoms-based (they can remember @that occasion) diagnosis.
Compared to the practice in developed countries where they would first send their patients to the laboratory for proper diagnosis(test) before prescribing a particular drug.
As for the herbalist' case, they wouldnt av gone to him if the health sector was okay. I hope to here from you.
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