As a nurse you need to learn how to take care of yourself, look at your matrons and seniors that have been working for 25years and notice how much their labour isn’t showing in their lives.
Do your skin care 💅
Drink water and eat well.
Avoid toxic people.
Build your confidence and knowledge.
Think positive about yourself and future.
Learn to rest! Stop taking too much extra shifts.
Check your blood pressure and sugar level.
Take care of your family but don’t do more than you can.
250k for exploratory lapatomy in a government hospital.
1.5million in a private hospital.
People will see this and suddenly, healthcare is called a business.
But ask a lawyer for a 200k consultation and it's suddenly a professional fee.
A private school that charges 500k per term is called quality education.
A hotel charges 200k for one night is seen as premium experience.
A mechanic charges 50k for a simple oil change is called service cost.
But when a doctor or hospital charges for years of training, expensive equipment, staff, infrastructure, maintenance and 24×7 availability.
Dundee heads will start shouting that hospitals are looting patients and they doctors are putting a price to life.
Criticize unreasonable charges. Absolutely.
But stop pretending that every private healthcare service should operate at government-hospital prices.
Private Healthcare is a profession AND a business - not a charity.
You can go away now.
When people talk about politics and elections as if it's Chelsea vs Arsenal, these are the results.
Elections have real life consequences.
In 2001, in Abuja, African heads of state came to the honest conclusion that if they wanted quality healthcare for their people, they would need to put aside 15% of their annual budgets for health sector. After the "Abuja Declaration", health workers we're so excited about the good things to come.
For context, the UK spends 38%, the US-26%, Saudi spends about 20%.
Guess what Nigeria budgeted on healthcare in 2025? A measly 5%. Like our leaders agreed that 15% was needed and decided the lives of Nigerians were not so important and implemented 5% instead.
How will there be bed spaces? There are about 79 federal tertiary hospitals, if you add state hospitals, there are about 120 tertiary hospitals catering for 200 million people.
The health workers we're are complaining about their attitudes are stretched to the limit and are barely standing.
A nurse who is ideally supposed to nurse 4-6 patients, is put in charge of 15-20 patients, all while earning less than N200k. If they attends to each patient the way they ideally should, they cannot possibly cater to all the patients under them. They don't have the allowance of time to be patient or polite as you'd want them to be.
The same nurse switches to a private hospital or goes abroad and becomes the sweetest soul because they aren't under the pressure cooker that is the average Nigerian public hospital.
About 60 thousand doctors are currently serving a population of 200million. If that doesn't make you worried, I don't know what will.
Doctors are grossly overworked and underpaid as well. I did 5 surgeries in a 24hr span during my last call, and I promise you I didn't feel like being polite or empathetic at the end of the 5th surgery because I was feeling like collapsing myself. This is my 5th year of residency and I've been on annual leave once, 3 years ago. Health workers are running on fumes and deserve credit for just showing up instead of running away to better climes.
Meanwhile the over 200 million Nigerians whose lives have literally been endangered by our leaders prefer to assault health care workers after a loss due to systemic failures rather than channel that rage against their wicked leaders.
Your fellow celebrities, who themselves have witnessed firsthand the dysfunction of Nigerian healthcare will still come out to endorse the same people who are stealing the resources that are supposed to cater for the health of all Nigerians. You will probably also endorse APC too, should the opportunity arise.
Finally, Paraphrasing @Wizarab10 , we all get the love (or leaders) we think we deserve.
I was on call in a private hospital when one of my nurses developed abdominal pains.
I ran around despite resistance from the hospital's admin to ensure she got an Ultrasound (they wanted her to pay first!).
Results showed Acute Appendicitis. This private hospital refused to book her in for urgent surgery until she made a deposit of 750K (Ps-She works here and her salary is less than 180K).
We mobilized her and sent her with another nurse to a government hospital. She went to 4 different government hospitals and 'No bed space' was all they said and turned them back (not even minding she was a nurse!).
I had to ask them to bring her back to the private hospital where she finally had the surgery after myself and 3 other nurses including the patient signed to have deductions from our salaries till the debt was paid.
She had a ruptured appendix when we finally went in which changed the surgery from a simple appendectomy to an Ex-Lap. 750k became 1.6M and we had to pay it for 5 months till it was completed. She is fine now but just putting this out here.
@lasisielenu Only Nurses are rude right, also as for the relatives that got arrested, trust me they deserve it. Because people think losing somone is an excuse to transfer aggression. I will make sure you do jail. I have relative too.
You can go away now
Med student came to me with this CBC and asked: "Sir, is this bacterial or viral?"
Here’s how I broke it down. Forget memorizing. Use a 4-step approach.
STEP 1: LOOK AT WBC FIRST
You’re removing one of the biggest variables from his career and assuming the outcome would have been the same. His wealth, family name, connections and social capital gave him advantages that most artists simply didn’t have. Before the music money, there was already family money.
That meant he could take bigger risks, fund records, invest in promotion, build a label, pay writers and producers, travel, network and, most importantly, survive periods when the music wasn’t performing at its peak. Those are advantages that can significantly affect an artist’s trajectory and longevity.
Could Davido have succeeded without his family background? Absolutely, it’s possible. But saying he definitely would have reached the same level is speculation. You can acknowledge his passion and talent without pretending his starting position didn’t matter.
Talent may get you into the game, but resources, access, strategy, relationships and the ability to continuously reinvest in yourself can determine how long you stay at the top. That’s a major part of why Davido has remained relevant for 15+ years.
This was exactly what I said on Space yesterday @gmltony@trigottista
No celebrity lent a voice for Davido on that election day; none retweeted his tweets, none quoted his tweet. They all sat hoping Adeleke would lose so they could prove a point to him. @davido
We have the worst selfish celebrities and influencers in human history.