How to Japa as a Nigerian Healthcare Giver
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With more than 1.2 million Nigerians needlessly losing their lives every year as a result of lack of proper medical emergency services, it has become imperative to set up a viable solution that would help reduce the high mortality rate and save lives at the community level.
With more than 1.2 million Nigerians needlessly losing their lives every year as a result of lack of proper medical emergency services, it has become imperative to set up a viable solution that would help reduce the high mortality rate and save lives at the community level.
Heart attacks can come unannounced. While it is agonizing for the one suffering from it, the victim’s loved ones also get affected.
Heart attacks occur when a part of the heart does not get enough blood. When an important artery experiences blockage due to bad cholesterol, cardiac history or any other reason – the blood fails to reach the heart. This results in an individual experiencing a heart attack.
You are the first responder and medic when you witness any emergency situation. This is because life is precious and whatever you do during this critical moment determines the survival of the victim.
Let’s say you, your child, elderly parents or any member of your family or colleagues falls down the stairs and is in need of quick medical attention to help alleviate the pain before getting proper medical assistance. How do you deal with such a situation? Now, It doesn\’t matter where you work, offices, schools, corporate …
Christmas is a peak time for increased stress and accidents. Decorations, fires, new toys, visitors, cooking and houses packed with over-excited children and extra animals present a lot of potential hazards. Factor in the additional seasonal stress and alcohol and you can start to understand how people fall foul of the festive season.
Aging is a fact of life and it affects all families. As adult children, when imagining our parents as seniors, we may not fully comprehend the extent to which their aging will affect them or how it will affect us. Indeed, if they are already seniors and still in good health and living independently we may not feel any dramatic changes or concerns. However, the time does come when effects of aging become more evident and long-term care may be needed.
A few days ago, a Nigerian Air Force officer, Lance Corporal Bercy Ogah died after she got bitten by a poisonous snake when she sat on the toilet seat in her room. Reports said the snake made its way into her toilet bowl (WC) and bit her at her residence in Abuja. We at the Emergency Response Africa deeply sympathize and extend our condolences to the family of Bercy Ogah.
The rate at which some of the structures, some under construction, have been failing has become a great source of concern. Year-in year-out, building collapse is now a recurring phenomenon in Lagos, resulting in loss of lives and billions of Naira in investments. The collapse, on Monday, of a 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos, followed by the collapse of another storey building in the Lekki-Ajah axis of the state the next day brought to the fore, again, the recurring, but the disturbing issue of building and structural collapse in the country.