Dame Patience Jonathan and the Rest of Us

rendered bankrupt many who live poverty, malnutrition, sickness and precariously on the edge. Many have hopelessness. died like chicken as a result of What has happened to our health misdiagnosis by unapologetically institutions? Why can’t the laboratories incompetent and uncommitted medical diagnose common infectious diseases personnel in our specialist medical correctly anymore? It now appears that institutions. We thank God for you our anybody who has malaria is also first lady, Mrs. Dame Patience Jonathan simultaneously diagnosed to have typhoid for the opportunity to fever! These diseases do It now appears that not have common escape the sentence passed on you, but many aetiology or mode of anybody who has of us have not been so transmission. Something lucky and have paid the is definitely wrong with malaria is also supreme price for the the abilities of the inefficiencies of our practitioners. We now simultaneously leaders. boast of the ‘state of the Many ordinary Nigerians in art’ equipment and talk diagnosed to have a desperate attempt to about ‘international best overturn the death but the typhoid fever! These practices’ sentence passed on them prognosis of our situation diseases do not have has not improved even a by their ill health in the absence of competent bit. The decay in our common aetiology or facilities in the nation have health training institutions thrown caution to the has metamorphosed into mode of wind and begun a new a systemic collapse of career in begging on the health delivery machinery transmission. national television in the country. We are networks for money they now faced with an Something is cannot dream of earning in increasing exodus to India their entire generation, to where improved health definitely wrong! go to India to obtain help. services are reported The sight of the poor but available at lower costs. otherwise respectable and honest But even if it cost absolutely nothing at all Nigerians begging and crying for help over to assess the treatment in India, it will still the nation’s television networks paints a be inaccessible to the majority poor in pathetic picture of a people and nation in this country since they have no wings to great distress. While the leadership hops fly. from continent to continent to seek relief Something must be done and must be at any cost at the expense of the rest of done urgently. If Mohammed cannot go us, the rest of us wallow in abject to the mountain, then the mountain must Page 3 of 4