There is no dignity in suffering, and medicine is not martyrdom. Nobody should be Ambu-bagging a baby with recurrent apnea for six hours and calling it heroism. That is not standard care. That is waste, exhaustion, and predictable harm dressed up as virtue.
The standard is simple: when apnea is recurrent and you cannot stabilize the child on conservative measures, you intubate, you mechanically ventilate, you secure the airway, and you do your actual job not perform a six-hour manual-resuscitation circus while the unit runs on vibes and prayer.
Six hours of Ambu bagging is total rubbish because:
- It burns out the doctor who should be thinking, not pumping a bag until their arms fail.
- It abandons other neonates who also need attention one baby gets a marathon, the rest get neglect.
- It does not fix recurrent apnea; it delays definitive management.
- The outcome you’re gambling with isn’t “grateful parents on Twitter” it’s hypoxic brain injury, cerebral palsy, and a lifetime of disability because oxygenation was treated like a stamina contest.
No junior doctor will tell you six hours of Ambu bagging was a good experience. It’s a bitter, traumatic experience nobody should have to witness or repeat. Praising it doesn’t elevate medicine it normalizes dysfunction and tells owners of broken units: “Keep understaffing, keep missing ventilators, keep praising manual heroics we’ll clap instead of fix.”
Stop applauding exhaustion.
Stop romanticizing what should never happen in a functional neonatology unit.
Call the owners of that unit facility managers, hospital administration, state health leadership to equip, staff, and protocolize: working ventilators, trained personnel, and clear escalation to intubation and mechanical ventilation on time, not after six hours of manual bagging for likes and pity posts.
Praising a doctor who Ambu-bagged for six hours isn’t respect. It’s complicity in a trash system that leaves no room for improvement because everyone’s too busy clapping martyr theatre instead of demanding dignified, standard neonatal care.
Do the needful. Intubate. Ventilate. Fix the unit. Or shut the unit.
Anything else is noise and the baby pays the price.
Bayo Onanuga quoting Jimo Ibrahim to disparage Seyi Makinde is actually funny. Very funny.
The same Jimoh Ibrahim?
Just google search that name please.
Tinubu just keeps gathering the worst of us to represent this great country.
Jimoh Ibrahim ke? 🤣🤣🤣
"Hold your Governor accountable"
Governor don say he want bring independent investigators to probe wetin happen for him state.
Tell me why you are everywhere crying?
Kayode Fayemi told Goodluck Jonathan in the presence of the whole world that everything they did against his government was "just politics," and I think Makinde is not ready to wait for someone in the next 4 years to say "it was just politics".
YOU KNOW WHAT GENUINELY TERRIFIES ME?????!!!!
The Nigerians who have lived/ visited abroad.
They’ve seen uninterrupted electricity.
They’ve driven on roads that don’t kill people.
They’ve experienced healthcare that treats you before asking if you can afford to live.
They’ve seen governments that actually work for the people.
Then they come back home…
…and tell 230 million people to be grateful for the barest minimum.
It genuinely breaks my heart.
Because once you’ve seen what a working system looks like, how do you return and convince people that suffering is normal?
How do you applaud failure just because it favours you?
The tragedy of this country isn’t only the people who don’t know any better.
It’s the people who do know better…
…and still teach everyone else to expect less.
That is exactly why we are where we are 💔💔💔
"I don't read your tweets" - goes ahead to post the tweet.
Akintollsnake, Me I read your tweets o for it pleasures me to watch the performance of mad people. It is called extracurricular activities.
You're 15 years older than me but I will always thrice the man that you are.
Putting it out there for posterity:
One day, when he fully unravels - you people will know the exact role Akin Tollgate is playing in infiltrative politics on here.
First time I clocked him was pre-elections, during those spaces.
Until then, ✌
#BabyDoyinOkupe
Festus Keyamo will be regretting why he released that CCTV footage 😭
In their bid to discredit Peter Obi, they have disgraced themselves, and proven everything Obi said on that Podcast to be true.
APC in severe pain right now. 🤣
Touch not my anointed, and do my prophet no ---
URGENT CALL FOR HELP!!!!!
This is a young medical doctor called Dr Innocent. He’s working as a house officer at the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital in Calabar, Cross River State.
Dr Innocent and his other doctor colleagues who are also house officers have NOT been paid for 290 days.
Yes you read that right.
A whole 290 days of working as a medical doctor with ZERO pay. That’s about 10 months work with NO pay.
According to Dr Innocent,
The Ministry of Defence has refused to pay their salaries for no reason. This young medical doctors are being worked like slaves while receiving ZERO pay.
They have nobody to speak for them.
They have nobody to fight for them.
They are suffering and dying in silence.
Please if you see this tweet,
Kindly retweet, share and tag General Christopher Musa the Minister of Defence, and also please tag the Ministry of Defence,
I don’t know these doctors personally,
But we can’t watch evil and say nothing.
Please don’t let this young doctors suffer in vain, they have families who depend on them for support and survival,
It will only take you 2seconds,
Kindly retweet this post. This is the little we can do to help these doctors from the evil injustice done to them by the Ministry of Defence.
Pls share and retweet. Thank you.
I’ve heard a lot about Fulani people and I witnessed it today.
This woman strolled in that she’s feeling stomach pain.
Apparently, she was in labor cos she was already fully dilated.
She went in, and while others were screaming, she was just smiling and grunting a bit while muttering what I think is prayers.
I wasn’t even sure she was pushing enough because of the sheer lack of effort on her face. But she pushed that baby out without a fuss..
She was even torn and had an episiorrhaphy and was making a phone call during the repair.
Nah, these people are truly strong.
We are intentional about nothing in this country.
50% of our farm produce go bad before they reach the market.
An intentional govt will offer import waivers on cold storage value chain and offer tax benefits for businesses in the field.
Here, it's tax tax tax.