Dr. Eghosa

Doctor of Medicine||Believer in Equality||Sexual Health Rights||Football Manager Addict||Pro-LGBTQ Rights||Feminist Ally

[Tosin @teesjourney]

Clocking in the 3rd year mark - Happy Anniversary to my Husband and I. ❤️

[Ezekiel Oputa @Zikkiiy]

@yumchaforall @Karigwe THERE ARE QUEER PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. Because they hide it doesn't mean they don't exist!
Even in the most religious places with the strictest of laws. That's because it's not a choice

[Dr. Eghosa @Iyequs]

@BadreddineA @PeakSxnti Sad it had to come to that. I’m glad the Senegalese were able to stand for themselves and made a point in the face of being cheated. At that point in the eyes of the world Algeria were already not worthy winners anyway.

[Dr. Eghosa @Iyequs]

@PeakSxnti Very disgraceful, nobody will ever respect them even if they win. NEVER

[Sxnti @PeakSxnti]

No VAR checks or whatever, there is no push here, They're working hard to gift this to Morroco 😭😭😭

[Dr. Eghosa @Iyequs]

And Morocco thinks anyone will respect their win, such jokers.. such losers..:

[Ụlọma @ulxma]

Jehovah’s Witnesses take modern medicine seriously. They go to hospitals, get surgeries, take medications, do chemo, get vaccines… basically the full range of standard medical care.

Take Covid for example: they approached it with a mix of caution, organisation and strict internal consistency. They were one of the few large religious groups that shifted their entire global routine very quickly and stayed with it. They suspended all in-person meetings, conventions and door-to-door preaching early in the pandemic, long before many governments mandated it. Their worship moved fully online.

They took public-health guidance seriously. They encouraged masks, distancing and hygiene measures, and they followed local regulations and never resisted them. Their official publications consistently framed these actions as practical expressions of caring for others.

Additionally, they did not oppose Covid vaccination, and many jws viewed vaccination as a responsible medical decision consistent with their general acceptance of modern medicine.

They also quickly adapted their ministry. Door-to-door work stopped worldwide and did not return for more than two years. Instead, they wrote letters, made phone calls and used digital tools for outreach. This was historically unusual for them because personal, physical ministry is central to their identity. They treated this as both a safety measure and an opportunity to preach or distribute content without travel or crowding to avoid infecting others.

Anyone who is familiar with their disaster response system during natural disasters can testify that they use a similar approach and that they take science and community very seriously.

The single line they don’t cross is blood transfusion. This is because of how they interpret the biblical instruction to “abstain from blood” in Acts 15:28–29. For them it isn’t exclusively a food rule but a moral boundary, so they avoid transfusions of whole blood and its major components: red cells, white cells, platelets and plasma. When it comes to smaller blood derivatives (like albumin or certain immunoglobulins and similar products) each jw decides for themselves. The same applies to procedures where their own blood stays connected to their body in a closed loop.

I grew up holding that stance too but my understanding of the verse changed as an adult; I now interpret it as a dietary rule that was valid at a time when eating and cleansing oneself with animal blood was common in ancient pagan traditions. Of course, the rule was made by people for whom blood rituals were the limit of their imagination based on their current reality. Today, modern medicine has advanced and allowed us the gift of saving others’ lives by giving them our blood and I do not believe that a loving god would rather watch his children die for his own ego rather than accept the kindness of extending or saving their lives through blood transfusion.

But even though they don’t accept blood transfusion, they (mostly) approach it with care (or at least this has always been my understanding however a little bit complex). They often use what is called “bloodless medicine” which are techniques designed to manage or replace lost blood without using donor blood. Some medical centres have dedicated protocols because they’ve been treating jw patients for decades. Unfortunately, the reality in Nigeria when it comes to “bloodless medicine” protocols for jws and how widespread they are is a patchwork. There are doctors and hospitals in Nigeria who have treated jw patients with bloodless surgery approaches, but it is not yet uniformly or widely adopted. This makes it incredibly and disproportionately risky to be a jw in need of critical blood transfusion in Nigeria. Being a Nigerian in need of critical healthcare is already risky enough given our broken medical system, so this adds an extra layer of risk.

So, overall: they welcome medical care, but blood transfusion is a spiritual no-go area.

That one belief has shaped entire fields of bloodless techniques and also means they’re usually very clear about advance directives so doctors know how to treat them responsibly.

Generally, especially when lives are at risk, I advocate for understanding, respect and empathy in caring for people with unconventional religious beliefs. I too once lost a close childhood friend to this belief, and I know a number of people who have gone the same way too. My beef is with the organisation’s governing body for holding onto this archaic position and refusing to adapt which has cost thousands of lives.

Sadly, this is the tension between ancient texts and modern medicine which isn’t unique to jws. Every tradition that treats an ancient text as morally binding faces the same challenge: how to apply ideas shaped in a pre-scientific world to technologies the authors could not have imagined.

I’ll continue to hope their stance on blood transfusion is eventually reversed, just as they once reversed their position on organ transplants.

It is unnecessary. It is inhumane.

[Dr. Eghosa @Iyequs]

@moyindorcas5 @THETemmieOvwasa 😂

[UG🇵🇹 @UgwunnaEjikem]

Boys posting screenshots admitting to internet fraud.

Boys & girls saying “visiting a man automatically implies sexual consent”

Tbh y’all better be careful what you wish for when you say you want a “working Nigeria” cos half of you would be in jail if Nigeria actually worked.

[Dr. Eghosa @Iyequs]

@saras76 😅… I’m sure this is exactly what Charlie Kirk would have wanted. You guys are really making him proud. Divisive in life and even in death.

[Dr. Eghosa @Iyequs]

@lekan_olayinka1 Heya, sorry, receive fortitude to bear your loss. But how did the person who killed him get a gun? Why was the person allowed to just have a gun?, oh wait, that was the ‘American values’ he and some people push hard for right?

[Nsikan @CkanJohnson]

Nothing tightens a Nigerian’s mouth faster than the fear that you might succeed quicker than they did.

It’s not just silence. It’s a strategy. And more often than not, it’s disguised as humility, caution, or the ever-familiar “it is well.” But underneath, it’s the old instinct to protect the struggle and guard the glory. Because if you didn’t bleed for it, you haven’t earned it.

So when you ask them to share the name of a sponsoring company, it’s not just a question. It’s a threat. A threat to the myth that their journey was exceptional. If they hand you a shortcut, what happens to the prestige of the long road? The years of waiting and rejection, the near-deportation stories they tell at parties. If you get it quickly, what does that say about them?

That’s where the “I better pass my neighbor” spirit creeps in. It’s not always loud, but it’s there. In the vague replies, the awkward silences, the “it is well” that shuts the door without sounding cruel. Some of them genuinely believe that if too many people come through the same route, it will close. The room will get smaller. That their own story will lose weight.

And I get it. When you’ve had to fight for everything, it’s hard to believe anything should come easy for someone else. But there’s a difference between protecting your path and hoarding the map.

At some point, you have to decide what kind of elder you want to be. The one who makes it easier for others or the one who needs it to stay hard, so your survival feels more noble.

You cannot be both.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

If you genuinely love nigeria,
If you truly love this country,
If you are not after power at any means,

Then this current coalition - and some of the people at the helm of it- should bother you.

But it looks like, at this point,
We now want power at any cost, at any price.

[Dr. Eghosa @Iyequs]

@SharafaSalimon8 @OurFavOnlineDoc You even look cursed and like a slave

[Dr. Eghosa @Iyequs]

@ifedayo_johnson I’m just glad that I and all my classmates from medical school, 90% of the class have relocated to the US, UK, Canada and Australia, we wish the rest of Nigerians well. 🙏🏽🙂

[Michael udo @Udoka62782315]

@jay_rhymz @Tunde_OD @officialABAT Do you mean elder that is a thief 🧐

[Dr. Eghosa @Iyequs]

@itsuloma @aproko_doctor It’s surprisingly delicious even for me who is skeptical of many fruits

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

Just see the people you share a country with.