I know for one that fake drugs and adulterated food will top the list of causes of failure of internal organs in this country. Imagine people putting dusting powder in capsules and selling them as antibiotics, or people pouring chemicals into palm oil to turn it into groundnut oil. These despicable acts no doubt will be responsible for some of the preponderant cases of internal organ failures. Not to mention negligent, deplorable Medicare facilities.
To compound issues, there are no dialysis centres in most public hospitals across Nigeria. You have to go to private hospitals which charge between N30, 000 and N50, 000 per session for dialysis, whereas a kidney failure patient has to do about three every week to stay alive. No wonder that many poor people die unsung from this problem every day.
It baffles me that authorities do not care about these problems, in spite of the huge mortality rate. This is perhaps because they know they can afford to travel abroad for treatment were they to be affected. With the exception of the MTN Foundation which announced recently that it has constructed brand new dialysis centres in 11 public hospitals across the country for the use of the general public, there is absolutely nothing being done in this direction by people who should be more concerned.
I wish Nigerians would take our leaders to task over this obvious lapse and absolute lack of regard for the lives of human beings. Things cannot go on like this in this country. For now, the only option available to the overwhelming poor people of Nigeria is to pray to God to spare them these diseases and conditions that are expensive to manage. Otherwise, they are on their own.
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