Nigerians have been cautioned against self medication especially using drugs prescribed for another person, neighbor or colleague at work, but rather go to the hospital for proper diagnosis and professional help.
A Medical Expert, Dr Tunde Fameso, gave the advice virtually to residents of FERCA CDA in Eyita, Ikorodu as part of his Corporate Social Responsibility for his community.
“The main reason why I have been giving lectures on health is not for any financial gain but to enlighten the society as my own contribution to the society who trained me”
“Are you still in the habit of using your neighbors drugs to treat your own ailments.
Please desist from now on.
Do you know what the doctor saw before placing the neighbor on the drug.
Don’t be a victim of HAD I KNOW PLEASE, go to the hospital if you are sick” Dr Fameso said
Dr Fameso who gave many health tips advised Nigerians to always rest and create time for relaxation, noting that the body needs rest after several hours of labour.
“People slumping and dying is becoming rampant, even if you are not sleeping, find time to rest please.
It is no longer a luxury for an executive to have a place to place a bed in their offices.
Studies have shown that executives who have beds in their offices are encouraged to have siesta in the afternoons which helps their health”
“If you must work from morning till night, make provision for your health, provide where you can rest in your office please”
The Medical Expert expressed displeasure over the increasing rate of domestic violence which he said is one of the many health concerns plaguing the society in recent times and is worrisome.
He urged women to be submissive to their husbands while enjoining the husbands to love their wives but advised them to go their separate ways in case of violent domestic violence to prevent loss of lives.
“We have lost a lot of promising young couples due to fighting to death.
You are both friends before you agree to marry each other but if it doesn’t work out, then, walk out of the marriage alive and continue living.
Wives are always the ones that go and take knives because they know the husbands will be more powerful than them.
WHY?. We have seen wives poisoning their husbands or husbands using acids to disfigure there wives.
WHY?. It is a psychological problem.
Let’s remember we started on friendship and if we can’t be together again, let’s end it as friends”
Dr Fameso also frowned on indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the community noting that most of the diseases that have long been eradicated are coming up again due to neglect of simple hygiene.
He encouraged residents to clean their environment, eat good and balanced diet, find good and portable water to drink for a healthy living.
“It is painful when people turn deaf ears to warnings.
Rain has started again and flood is on.
Stop disposing your waste in the gutters and blocking the drains.
Be environmentally friendly please.
Get a covered plastic to dispose your waste” he emphasized
“If your landlord did not make toilets for you, report him to the authority.
It is one important thing that the authority is concerned with.
Be your neighbor keeper.
Do not do things that will hurt you to your fellow humans.
It is senseless to think your neighbors should handle your waste because that waste you disposed and blocking the drains will affect them with flood” he said
The Medical Expert also urged residents to stop managing items by using defective materials which do not make economic sense
According to him, once there is a defective instrument especially domestic material like leaking gas cylinder, defective oven, defective bath, defective electrical outlets, cracked toilet seats, change them or do not use them until you can change them.
“Some people have had serious wounds sittng on cracked toilet seats, be warned”.
Written by Yemisi Dada-Ayodele