The decay in Nigeria's health sector has been brought to the fore after a doctor narrated how he saved a patient's life using bathroom slippers.
The doctor used slippers to save a patient's life
A Nigerian doctor, Chibuike Joseph Chukwudum has given hints on how he used a bathroom slippers to save the life of an accident victim.
Chibuike who had to improvise due to non-availiability of the materials at the hospital where he works narrated in details all he had to do to save the victim's life.
The unavailability of the needed materials many believe is a pointer to the decayed level of our health sector.
The Federal Government has been blamed for this even as Nigeria's number one citizen, President Muhammadu Buhari continues to patronize foreign medical hospitals because of the inefficient ones we have in the country.
Read Chibuike's full post below:
Just In Case You Find Yourself In A Jungle.
Emergency medicine is as exciting as it is unforgiving. People who excell in it are those who can think fast on their feet, and those who are daring. This is so as every minute counts, and the slightest delay could spell doom for the patient.
More often than not, especially in a third world country like Nigeria, the need arises for an emergency physician to reach into the deepest recesses of his brain and pull out an improvisation-- a hack, to save a patient whose life is hanging by a thread.
For people working in standard hospital settings-- where emergency tools are just a tray or trolley away-- there may not be much need to familiarize oneself with the different hacks in emergency medicine. However, for the NYSC medical officer who may find himself in a rural setting, far removed from civilization, being familiar with these hacks is very important for two reasons:
- when in a charted territory, using a hack one is already familiar with saves both oneself's time, and most importantly the patient's time.
- it has a way of sparking one's own genius to come up with a denovo improvisation when in an uncharted territory.
This is why I always share my own hacks, as I believe that it may someday be of help to someone who may find himself in a situation similar to the ones I often find myself in. As a matter of fact, I've had several colleagues call to tell me that they were in the doldrums one time or the other, and had to employ one of the several improvisations I write about, and it worked.
