The moment Sascha Zverev won Roland Garros to become a Grand Slam champion.
The first German man to win a slam since Boris Becker in 1996.
A long time coming.
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Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet.
For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission.
Her health was treated as a background inconvenience.
When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her.
She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain.
It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops.
Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.
@AfricaFactsZone, Thank you for bringing this up. First, it's true I took back my ambulance & I have no apologies for that. Why did I do it? It's because they didn't vote for me. So did you expect me to walkaway with nothing? Galatians 6:7 A man reaps what he sows.
The Hippocratic Oath says "DO NO HARM."
But working 72-hour shifts causes harm.
Underfunded hospitals cause harm.
Unpaid salaries cause harm.
Where is the oath that protects the doctor?
🚨 UPDATE: The Warri House Officer Has Died.
With a heavy heart, we announce the passing of Dr. Ogbomade Samson Romani, the House Officer at Central Hospital, Warri, who slumped earlier this week and was admitted into the ICU.
He died in the early hours of yesterday.💔
Dr. Samson, as he was fondly called, was described by colleagues as hardworking, respectful, and dedicated to his duty. He was a graduate of Niger Delta University (NDU).
This is not just another obituary.
In February, Dr. Samson was brutally beaten for nearly 20 minutes by hoodlums allegedly arranged by a patient’s relative. He sustained serious facial and abdominal injuries and had struggled with his health ever since.
His attackers were never arrested.
Now he is gone.
Reports indicate he was laid to rest shortly after his passing.
This marks the second doctor from NDU lost this week. It is a double blow for the NDU alumni and the entire medical community at large. 🎓
We again call on the Delta State Government and relevant authorities:
- Why were the February attackers never arrested?
- What protections are in place for healthcare workers?
- How many more young doctors must die before action is taken?
Dr. Ogbomade Samson Romani was beaten while serving the public. He deserved protection. He deserved justice. He deserved to live.
May his soul rest in peace.
Cc:
@RtHonSheriff@DSGovernment@PoliceNG@nationalnma@nard_nigeria@mohagirei