Medic & Blogger
Ilorin - Kwara State, Nigeria
The course was anchored by Columbia University, and it was open to all African countries. I was excited to take up the challenge of attending the course and looked forward to a certification in it. The course ran for six weeks and had two sessions each week, Tuesdays and Thursdays. I shared the advert with a few like-minded people, hoping to have friends on a similar page. Some people keyed in, although just a fraction of them made it to the end.
The clause of mechanized farming, however, is upon the huge financial cost of setting up and maintaining the farm, even though there is the advantage of employing fewer hands to cultivate the land. In resource-rich environments, the application of advanced technology has almost effaced the need for human input and intervention. But at what cost is the advancement of technology putting a strain on our farms and, by extension, health?
The intrapartum period can be distressing for mothers, and children are likely to be poorly fed or neglected as a result. Thankfully, the midwives are well informed of the need to institute early breastfeeding within thirty minutes of birth, and this implies the mother has to be stabilized postpartum.
source Single parenthood is difficult but not impossible. Yes, there are a few single parents that have managed to raise their kids despite the odds; however, it's largely better to have both parents on the ground. The effects can be tailored towards either the single parent or the children. Let's take a look below:
Of course, I knew it would be volunteer work since those requesting were students, and thus, I cleared my mind from expecting any incentives. I have engaged in volunteer work in the past, such as outreach that fetched me some tokens as a form of appreciation.
"Is everything alright, Ma?" I asked, pausing and standing face-to-face with her. I knew the troubles patients' relatives frequently encountered in Nigerian hospitals and, worse, especially the tertiary healthcare facilities such as UITH. The least I could do was to be empathetic, and thankfully, the emergency section where her patient was was only a stone's throw. I walked into the medical consulting room where emergencies were triaged and attended to. Her patient was a middle-aged man in his early forties, dark-skinned, and lying on one of the two available couches in the consulting room. The attending physicians were surprisingly absent when I got to where the patient was, who lay on the couch halfway unconscious. I asked a few questions about what had transpired to have resulted in the index case. In my bid to reveal my clinical prowess, perhaps in addition to a share of empathy, without sensing the need to use gloves, I used my right thumb finger to examine the patient's parlor. I checked the patient's pulse also for about a minute. It was barely five months into my medical internship, which was my first exposure since I graduated from college.