By Lilian Okoro
Lagos, April 26, 2021 Some medical experts have warned Nigerians against taking malaria treatment without proper diagnosis and confirmation as it could lead to complicated medical conditions.
The experts, who spoke with newsmen in Lagos on Monday, decried the rate at which people indulged in self-medication by using anti-malaria drugs without diagnostic confirmation of the presence of malaria parasite in the body .
Mr Jude Ezenwa, Laboratory Scientist, urged Nigerians to always comply with the National Policy on Malaria which advised medical testing before receiving treatment.
Ezenwa, who works with Tex Laboratory Services, Okota Lagos, said that the policy, which had been in existence for years lacked adequate implementation, compliance and supervision.
A fellow patient lent us N30,000 for dialysis, says mother of 12-year-old girl battling kidney failure
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For Mrs. Ezinne Oliver, nothing is more traumatising than tending to her 12-year-old daughter,Chisom Oliver, who is battling kidney failure. Chisom, who has been hospitalised since January at the Paediatric Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital,needs regular dialysis not just to stay alive but to be free of painpending the time her widowed mother could afford the N10m needed for a kidney transplant. YUSUFF MOSHOOD reports
Two years ago when Chisom suddenly developed dark spots all over her body, the initial thought of her mother, Mrs. Ezinne Oliver, was that she had an allergic reaction to something. She went to the chemist, bought some medication, and treated her at home.
FOR seven years in marriage, they were childless. They lived daily with the hope of becoming parents, but never knew when that would be. But when their
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The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, has advised men to show empathy and understanding when their wives has just given birth, and not to abandon the bedroom, thereby leaving the responsibility of nurturing the newborn to their wives alone.
The CMD noted that some men are in the habit of abandoning family bedroomonce the wife has a baby.
He counselled fathers to support their wives and be involved in looking after the newborn.
Fabamwo, a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Lagos State University College of Medicine, stated this during an interview with