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[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@Okizle Avamys. That's what I used.

[Dr Chioma Nwakanma-Akanno @DrZobo]

This morning in some Nigerian household, someone’s bundle of joy is about to be put through unimaginable sorrow in the name of “Omenala”. Culture.

They will place her on their lap, soak up boiling hot water, then press the cloth in-between her legs. On her clitoris.

Crime?👇🏽

[34.59.20 @106_36_52]

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[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@uray_o @Sai_Ishaya_ They just don't do that. These are the conversations that shoot be happening

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

His test did not show traces of malaria parasite.

This is what likely happened:

-When he filled the form he was flagged immediately under the "lived in endemic area for 6+ months" rule (or another one that indicates he had lived in Nigeria for a while)

-One of the screening test done was a malaria antibody test (MAT)—Not parasite (P-falciparum doesn't live for more than a few weeks to months in our blood, won't be there for 10-12 years).

-After years of repeated childhood exposure to P. falciparum, their antibody levels would very likely still be detectable, the immune system maintains long-term antibody responses to pathogens it has encountered repeatedly. (That's why by virtue of you living in Nigeria you are likely semi-immune).

-A positive MAT = deferral (You have not been "banned" from donating blood, you can still try again in the future to see if you no longer have antibodies and are free to donate).

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

This is also a big problem.

-The NHS urgently needs more Black donors, especially for the Ro blood subtype critical for sickle cell patients. But current malaria screening rules are quietly locking out thousands of eligible Black African donors (including possibly this guy).

-Grew up in Nigeria or Ghana? You'll face a malaria antibody test before donating. Test positive(which most will, for potentially decades after leaving their home countries) land you're deferred. Yet that positive result almost certainly reflects old immune memory, not active infection or any REAL risk.

-The policy doesn't distinguish between someone who arrived from Lagos last month and someone who left 20 years ago as a child and never returned. Both will get deferred. That's a blunt instrument that disproportionately hits exactly the donor communities the NHS needs most.

–What we need is not impossible if they truly care about the groups affected are: Quantitative antibody levels rather than binary positive/negative results, formal weighting for time since leaving endemic areas, PCR testing for actual parasites rather than using antibodies as a proxy, and above ALL a long overdue evidence-based policy review.

Sickle cell patients, overwhelmingly Black,nare running short of the specific blood they need. The policy review can't keep being delayed.

[Toyin Roberts @IamToyinRoberts]

Please I’m looking for visa sponsorship for someone who is like a sister to me, she has 4 weeks left on her post study visa.

She has worked in multiple admin, customer care roles in uk banks and private sector.

She does not drive.

This is a distress call. Thanks in advance

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@Tsarina_muna It's fixable. Maybe it's a one off thing

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@Amelia558rs Sorry, what is wrong with the dress? It looks gorgeous

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@chuqu_amaka Aww congratulations 🎉🎉

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@Tellemmmmm Never tried Moi Moi packet. Maybe I should

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@Tsarina_muna @Tellemmmmm So when I marinate and put into the oven. Soft chicken usually brings out some stock/liquid which you can drain out after a while then you continue with your oven cooking. It's not much but very nice for stew or jellof rice

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@Tellemmmmm @BohemianBoujee Hmm I should try this. Stew takes forever to make. I'm actively looking for ways to cut down the time

[Dr Elizabeth ‘Kandi ✨ @DrETKandi]

Please fill out the Home Office’s survey on whether or not the UK should extend the pathway to ILR to 10 years.

The consultation closes at 23:59 TONIGHT - this is your chance to fight against this unfair plan.

https://t.co/A8xmIaTi9m

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@tiemedoks Make one. Get an already made pastry roll for the dough and Quick mince with carrots, potatoes and onions to make filling . Oven in 40 mins.

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@DrETKandi Lunch is whatever I say it is, anytime I say it is. But I mostly go with timing. If the meal is after noon time, it's more likely to be called lunch.

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@QueenEfexii Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉. You are inspirational!

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@DrETKandi Nepo babies men! You will now realise that their reality is not your reality!

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

I’ve just spent some time on Reddit reading through various discussions, and I came across a post where LED doctors in a Trust were all asked to re-interview for their jobs this August. This included doctors who had just started on one-year contracts, as well as those who had been on long-term contracts. The reason given was that hospital management had been pressured by the local body ( ?possibly the local BMA) to do so.

The argument was that many Foundation doctors were at risk of not securing training posts, and that these LED roles needed to be reopened and, at least informally, prioritised for them.

As expected, the replies were filled with UKMGs justifying this and saying that some of their local Trusts are doing the same thing.

So the question remains: what kind of security actually exists for an IMG on a long-, medium-, or short-term contract?

What does that future realistically look like? What can the BMA reasonably claim to be advocating for in LED roles when it is repeatedly pressured by UKMGs to prioritise everything from training posts, to LED jobs, and, who knows, perhaps soon even HCA roles 😅?

How are IMGs meant to trust the BMA’s position on LED role “prioritisation” when its stance appears to shift even on established policies such as grandfathering?

And what happens when these training bottlenecks continue to worsen, even after IMGs have largely been shut out of training posts, and the same pressure is then applied to displace them from LED roles as well? Where exactly will IMGs be pushed out of next? NES? Non-clinical work?

It increasingly feels as though IMGs will always remain expendable in the eyes of a body that is ostensibly meant to represent all doctors, but in practice appears far more responsive to the anxieties and political pressures of one group over another.

[Kate gifted @Kate_gifted]

@DrETKandi That's him