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  • Doctor dies of Lassa fever in Delta

    Doctor dies of Lassa fever in Delta

    •32 others quarantined 

    Thirty-two persons have been quarantined in Delta State, following the death of a doctor from Lassa fever in a fresh outbreak of the disease.

    The late doctor’s hospital at Umuaji and another private hospital where he was treated at Bonsaac, both in Asaba, the state capital, have been shut down and fumigated.

    The doctor, who hailed from Anambra State, reportedly died at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) at Nnewi, also in Anambra State, where he was referred to.

    His blood sample tested positive to Lassa fever at the Institute of Lassa Fever at Irrua, Edo State.

    Health Commissioner Dr. Nicholas Azinge said those placed under surveillance, included 11 persons from the family of the deceased; 18 persons at the private hospital where the patient was first admitted; and three others who had contacts with the deceased.

    In a statement yesterday, Azinge said disease surveillance officers in Oshimili South and Oshimili North local governments were among those in the response team.

    The commissioner said the officers would monitor the temperature of those quarantined in the next 21 days.

    He said the State Lassa Fever Response Team had been reactivated, adding that sensitisation of health workers was holding to enable them have a high index of suspicion and take preventive measures when managing infectious cases.

    Azinge said: “There has been awareness creation through the mass media so the public can understand how the disease is transmitted and take preventive measures to forestall its spread. In addition, outbreak prevention materials have been pre-positioned in high risk disease outbreak local government areas.

    “Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), non-contact thermometers and other items have been distributed to the Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers in the 25 local government areas by the Ministry of Health. The drug, Rivabirin, has been procured for case management.

    “The Federal Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Medical Association in the state have been contacted and are collaborating with the ministry. I want to use this medium to tell the public not to panic since the situation is under control.”

     

  • UK-based Nigerian doctor wins Fulbright award

    UK-based Nigerian doctor wins Fulbright award

    Norris Igbineweka, a Nigerian-born medical doctor resident in the UK, has received a Fulbright – Nursten Award in Medical Studies  to enable him to undertake research at the National Institute of Health (NIH), USA, one of the most prestigious worldwide.

    Igbineweka will study genetic factors and biomarkers of clinical variability observed in sickle cell disease (SCD) at NIH. He will be undertaking laboratory research focusing on genetic variability in complications of SCD, as well as variability seen in response to hydroxyurea treatment. Finding these factors will contribute to development of genetic markers to predict severity in SCD as well as target-gene therapy.

    Igbineweka was selected with 46 other British grantees who met with the US Ambassador, Matthew Barzun at his official London residence, Winfield House, before departing for the U.S.

    Igbineweka said of the award: “I am astonished and deeply honoured in receiving a Fulbright Scholarship. Sickle cell disease is one of the commonest single gene disorders globally. Although, individuals with the disease have the same genetic mutation, clinical manifestation is variable amongst these individuals in similar fashion to type 2 diabetes. My work as a Fulbright Scholar will seek to understand the genetic determinants and biomarkers for this variability. I hope this work will contribute to the development of genetic predictors of disease severity and eventually targeted gene therapy.”

    Igbineweka, who emigrated from Benin City, Edo state with his parents to London as a child, was a star student throughout his education.  Following an outstanding GCSE result gained from the London Nautical Secondary School, he was awarded an HSBC scholarship to attend City of London School sixth-form. His excellent A-level results earned him a place to study Medicine at King’s College London (KCL).  He also undertook an intercalated BSc in Anthropology at the University College London (UCL) achieving a First Class Honours. He was placed on the UCL Dean’s List and awarded the Murray Last Prize for highest departmental mark for that academic year.

    He gained an Academic Foundation Programme position in Haematology at Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust as well as subsequently being awarded an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Haematology and core medical training at Kent, Surrey & Sussex Deanery enabling him to combine research with clinical training. He is currently completing an MRes in research at University of Brighton.

     

  • Doctor declared missing in Kwara

    Doctor declared missing in Kwara

    The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Kwara Chapter, yesterday declared one of its members – Abdulkareem Abdulrahman – missing.

    Branch secretary, Dr Victor Iroha, said in a statement that Abdulrahman was last seen at 6am on Sunday, July 24 as he “drove out of his residence opposite Federal Road Safety Commission Office, GRA in his navy blue Toyota Corolla car with registration number BWR 532 RP.”

    Abdulraheem, a medical officer with Hospital Management Bureau, was posted to General Hospital in Omu- Aran.

    “His phone has also been unreachable and there has been no trace of either him or his car,” Iroha said, adding that all search efforts had so far yielded no results.

    He said the matter had been reported to the police and other security agencies.

    The NMA appealed to people with useful information to contact the nearest police station or his brother Ridwan on 08110709470 or NMA Kwara spokesperson on 08034086152.

  • Baby with open heart dies ahead of surgery

    Baby with open heart dies ahead of surgery

    Baby Aisha, born with an open heart died early hours of Tuesday at the Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

    The Nation learnt that with the N2.5 million and N3m donated by Yobe State Government and the First Lady Aisha Buhari respectively, baby Aisha was set to be flown to Enugu to undergo surgery in a Special Centre which has partnership with UK specialists already in the country.

    The Uncle of the Baby, Arama Mustapha who broke the news of the death to our correspondent said that he is heart broken over the death of the child.

    “I have just received a call from the mother of the child a few minutes ago that the baby is dead. She called me around 3.06am and broke the news to me. I am really heart broken over the turn of event but my prayers is for Allah to grant her eternal rest,” Arama said.

    The Chairman Medical Advisory Council(CMAC) UMTH Dr. Mohammed Bashir confirmed the news to our correspondent.

    “It is very sad that the baby passed away early hours of Tuesday. It’s very sad that she could not make it,” the CMAC said.

    Dr. Pius Simon, the Consultant Neonatologist who was managing the baby ahead of her operation also confirmed the development, describing it as “a sad development”.

    He informed that the baby died of infection because the heart has overstayed outside the chest wall for too long.

  • Doctor cautions on self treatment of erectile dysfuncation

    Doctor cautions on self treatment of erectile dysfuncation

    Men have been advised against self medication in treating erectile dysfunction (ED), amidst rising cases of the ailment.

    A consultant urologist at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Dr. Funmilade Omisanjo, gave this advice while addressing pharmacists at a Pharmacy Academy programme. organised by Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals Limited for Retail Pharmacists.

    He said there was a remarkable increase in ED, stating: “The figures available suggest that about 40 per cent of men above 40 have some degree of ED while others have mild form of dysfunction. By the time you look at men above 60, 25 percent of them have severe erectile dysfunction. So what that means is that if you sit among a group of 50- year-old, you can expect one in two to have some degree of ED. For most of them it is mild form of ED. Mild in the sense that the men can still have some sexual intercourse, only that the extent of the hardness (turgidity) of the male organ is not what it used to be. This is because ED is measured in the presence of or absence of erection. We also talk about the turgidity of the organ. So it is roughly about one in two in men above 50 years,” he said.

    According to Dr Omisanjo, the presence of ED could be a sign of other illnesses in the body, such as, diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular challenges.

    Omisanjo said: “For most people, it is basically an age-related thing. As men get older, one expects there will be some deterioration in their sexual function, which is likened to women who attain menopause. In men we loosely term it Andropause. This is highly prevalent in men who are above 50 years. Age and lifestyle are very important factors. Obesity and lack of exercise are related. People with sedentary lifestyle or those who do not engage in physical activity are prone to obesity. This could also predispose people to ED. Things like smoking, alcohol intake, and most of these recreational drugs that people take actually have side effects as they affect erection.

    “Then of course you have co-morbidities of other diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, hypothermia, which is a medical emergency that occurs when your body loses heat faster than it can produce, causing a dangerously low body temperature. People who have problems with high level of cholesterol in their system, high blood pressure, people who have problems with their nerves are all susceptible to ED. Then of course there are medications people take for various medical conditions that have various erectile dysfunctions as side effects. These are some of the factors that predispose men to erectile dysfunction.”

    On how best to know one is suffering from ED, and the best way out Dr Omisanjo said, “Curiously you may find out that the local things that these men take actually do work, but sometimes even when they work, the results will come at the expense of some other things in the body system. For instance, most of the local things that people take are invariably things that have been soaked in alcohol. Alcohol in itself can be a risk factor for erectile dysfunction, besides that, chronic intake of alcohol can have other side effects on the liver and all that. You can never tell what the concentrations of these things are. So in as much some of these do work they are not the things we prescribe routinely. We don’t encourage men to take herbal remedies for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. We always advise men to try and seek expert opinion and seek treatment at standard clinics or hospitals because we have well proven medications that do work’’.

  • Meet the doctor in the creeks

    Meet the doctor in the creeks

    Dr Gbolahan Shodipo runs the only private hospital in Igbologun, he spoke of the community’s dire need of development, poor medical facilities and attention and life on the Island in general

    Are you an indigene of Igbologun?

    I’m not. I’m an Egba man.

    What inspired the estblishing a hospital in this…?

    The answer is, I don’t know. It happened that where I was working before, as a young man and a Christian, I kept wondering what I wanted to do with my life. I couldn’t have been a genetic error… I was praying and met a mentor and a pastor… I wrote a postgraduate examination and luckily then we were only two that passed in my class. Every member of my family was happy. I applied to Warrick University in England and was offered admission to run my Masters programme. Then, what next? There was no peace in my mind. My mentor now took me to someone, whom I started working with. The guy posted me to Tolu Medical Centre, a hospital in Ajegunle, where I was made Medical Director. Thereafter I got married and my wife and I both got admission to go for Masters abroad. But while she got a visa, I didn’t. We agreed that she should go ahead while I made plans to join her. At the hospital, I noticed some young ladies who used to come for antenatal; I got friendly with them and they told me that they came from Snake Island. And I said to them, ‘Snake Island? Where is that in Lagos?’

    Sometimes, they came late for antenatal sessions and when I queried them for coming late, they told me they couldn’t get a boat. Then I’d say, ‘If you don’t get  boat, then take a bike.’ They’d say they can’t take a bike, and that left me wondering if this place they talked about was really a part of Lagos. One day after close of work, I decided to go to the Snake Island and see things for myself. I instantly loved the environment, and the people. I made for the health centre with the intention of going to speak with the doctor there, but when I got to the health centre at about at 2 0’clock and knocked, there was no response. I was told that the staff there resume at 10 and close by 2. Then I asked in wonderment, ‘What if someone wants to come and deliver in the night?’

    I left the island and went back to continue with my work. Later on, two of the four pregnant women came for antenatal and when I asked after the other two, I was told they had died because there was an emergency and they couldn’t get a boat to take them across the water. It was at that point I decided I wanted to go and help the people. I decided to start something on the island, even as I continued to work on my travel plans.

    Even though I had agreed with my boss, who was also a mentor, that I was going to work with him for 4 years, I had to resign after 10 months. That’s how I came here in 2010. I had no money, but luckily for me I had a good landlord. He rented a building to me at the rate of 300,000 per annum and I used my last salary of N100,000 and some money I had saved to pay for the rent.

    Three hundred thousand? That’s expensive for a place on this island.

    The problem is that most people here work with the Niger Dock. That company pays their staff very well. Their staff of course want to stay in choice houses. They are the ones who mostly live in big houses; every other person stays in the ‘face me I face you’ apartments.

    When I started, there was no bed, no staff, just my younger brother and I. He didn’t study medicine, but I asked him to go and learn one or two basic things to equip him in assisting me around the hospital. He learnt very fast and was of  great help to me. When he eventually went to the university, he graduated with a  first class. As time went on, we were able to gather enough money to buy a place of our own, and we have one or two other places we’re working on for expansion. Till today my wife still wonders what brought me to this place. I tell her that even I don’t know.

    Do you do everything bigger city hospitals do?

    Yes. We carry out major operations, we treat regular illnesses, we deliver babies, up to 100 babies a year. In fact, there’s a woman who’s even in labour. I just told her to hold on till evening, hopefully she will be fully ready by that time. We have a lot of women who come here for ante-natal as well.

    2010 till date is five years plus. This means that at the time you came to this village there was no electricity. How did you cope all those years?

    Yes, in fact, we just started having light two months ago. As you can see, we have four generators. At the moment, two are inside and two outside. They run shifts. But now that there is light, it makes things quite easy. It’s all part of the cost of doing business.

    All the while you had to run on generators, would you say you were able to make any profits?

    From the start, the purpose of establishing the hospital was not to amass so much wealth. It was just like a place to hone my skills, the administrative skills I had gathered over the years, I wanted to know if I could put them to use; to see how I could manage the 22 staff under me, so that when in the future I’m faced with managing about 500 staff, I would be able to cope. As long as the profit coming in is enough to plan for the expansion of the business, that’s okay by me. And fortunately for me, I am not the extravagant type.

    Are you the only doctor here?

    We are two. The other is Dr Olowu. When I’m not here he is. But I was here alone for five years. He joined me after our 5th anniversary. I can’t be here forever. In the next five years, I should go out there and do other things and allow this place run by itself. If it is a system, it should be able to sustain itself. If it’s a living system, it should survive without me. If it depends on me for survival, it’s not a good system. In the next five years, I’ll wean myself from it and let it run by itself. I’m working on another project.

    Has the government ever visited?

    Yes. Sometime ago, they came here because there was an emergency. They said they were doing rally for election and there was a major fracas, so they had to look for any hospital where they could treat people. I did what I could to help them and they left, promising that they’d be of some sort of help, but it never came. Even their health centre is not equipped at all. There are a lot of things I try to help them with, but in the next five years I won’t be here.

    There was an NGO that came about a year or two ago, Partnership for Transforming Health Systems (PATHS) a UK based NGO. A young man from the NGO walked in here asking to see the owner of the hospital. Since this place is like a neglected zone, with Apapa just close by, and Ajegunle on the other side, the NGO chose the place so as to be able to help the people in the community. They said people told them to come to the owner of the hospital. So, I told them, fine, if you people are ready you can come. I sent one or two documents to them, I’m still waiting for them. If they come, we’re ready.

    But we were told this community is a crime free zone.

    That’s true in the sense that if you compare it to what happens in other parts of the state, the crime rate here is really low. Besides, when it comes to election campaigns and the fights that ensue, you’d know that it’s people coming from outside who really cause the trouble. For instance, you cannot come and burgle in this place. Where do you go after burgling when the only way out of this community is on water. Before you get to the jetty, they would have called other people to wait for you there. The only crime here borders around issues like, “I saw my husband with another woman’ and stuffs like that. Then again, guys smoke a lot of indian hemp here too. I can take you to up to 10 places where they smoke indian hemp. But compared to a place like Ajegunle, this place is heaven.

    What are your charges like?

    Very affordable. If you deliver here for instance, you pay N20,000; that’s for normal delivery. But if you deliver through ceaserean section, you pay N100.000. And that’s because people here don’t really want to patronise the hospital. The only way to encourage them is to reduce the price, so they can afford it. You have to encourage them, otherwise they may only come in when their case becomes critical, thereby creating more work for us here. And I don’t like people dying just because they don’t have money to be treated. I’m not like some typical Lagos doctors who refuse to treat people because of money. People do come in here without money and I treat them. Some bring the money when they have it later and some never do, it doesn’t bother me. For the eight or more years I’m going to be here, let me just do what I can for them.

  • ‘My experience as a naturopathic doctor’

    •Continued from last next week.

    The treatments offered by Naturopathic doctors like myself are simple, inexpensive, none invasive, causes no harm to the body and they are designed to treat the root causes of diseases. A naturopath takes time to find out what is causing the problem in his patient’s body.

    He patiently goes through the patient’s lifestyle, elimination history, eating and drinking habits, sexuality, work ethics, relationships, spiritual realities, etc. in order to form a big picture of the whole essence of this individual in his diagnosis, before deciding on what form of treatment to embark on. This is because we treat the body as a whole, we practise what we call total healing.

    As Naturopaths, we also use the best of today’s technology to help the body heal itself and this is called electro-medicine. In nature, everything vibrates at unique frequencies. Plants, physical objects, cells of the body, all body organs, pathogens like viruses and bacteria, all have their unique frequencies. These frequencies are all known for a long time now and are programmed into machines called frequency generators. Frequency generators have been around for decades. A scientist called Royal Rife researched and used frequencies to cure cancer in the 1920s and 1930s. When the frequency of your disease has been neutralised, the disease miraculously disappear from your system. We use these high-tech machines in our treatments today in my practice to destroy pathogens that cause diseases in the human body like HIV, hepatitis, ulcers, cancer, etc. This is a very fast, painless, effective and inexpensive treatment and it helps the body rid itself of even the most malignant of diseases.

    Naturopathy is a highly developed medical system and naturopathic doctors are at the fore-front of healing as we have it today. We Naturopaths firmly believe that, “there are no incurable diseases, there are only people who think they are incurable”, according to Dr. John R. Christopher. Most medical experts today have already concluded that what modern medicine is excellent at today is treatment of acute problems as in emergency medicine, such as all manner of accidents, broken bones, resuscitation, heart attacks,  infections, etc., where well trained doctors and surgeons can actually save your life in the emergency room.

    However, if I’m unlucky enough to develop a chronic disease like cancer, HIV, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis or stroke, I will stay well away from allopathic doctors and instead look for a competent Naturopath for help. This is because modern allopathic medicine have already publicly declared numerous times that it has not yet found a “cure” for such diseases, so why would I offer myself to so called “modern medicine” as a guinea pig or as one of their cash cows, so they can keep milking me and making money off my misery till I eventually pass away, a broken man! Instead I will be looking for real cures with medical practitioners who have been having successes upon successes treating these types of malignant diseases since the time of Hippocrates the father of medicine.

    The treatments offered by Naturopathic doctors like myself are simple, inexpensive, none invasive, causes no harm to the body and they are designed to treat the root causes of diseases. A naturopath takes time to find out what is causing the problem in his patient’s body.

    • To contact Dr Afolabi, call 07068230475, 08121206541, 07061360029 or 09056407384. Email- bafolabi@hotmail.com
    • To be concluded next week.
  • ‘My experience as a naturopathic doctor’

    ‘My experience as a naturopathic doctor’

    Benjamin Afolabi, a naturopathic doctor and CEO of Health-Eternal Cancer Clinic at Eleyele Layout in Ile-Ife, Osun State, answers the question on naturopathy.

    Naturopathic medicine (sometimes called “naturopathy”) is a distinct system of primary healthcare that emphasises prevention and the self-healing process through the use of natural therapies which includes homeopathy, herbalism, acupuncture, etc. It is a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses healthy diet, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the body’s natural healing processes. Naturopathic doctors (NDs) blend centuries-old knowledge and a philosophy that nature is the most effective healer with current research on health and human systems.

    Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, once said: “Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food”. This age-old wisdom is as true today as it was observed to be in the days of Hippocrates. The principles of Naturopathy were first used by the Hippocratic School of Medicine in about 400 BC. The Greek philosopher Hippocrates believed in viewing the whole person in regards to finding a cause of disease, and using the laws of nature to induce cure. It was from this original school of thought that naturopathy takes the following principles, which form the foundation of the naturopathic medical practice:

    • First do no harm (primum non nocere) – A Naturopath will never use treatments that may create other conditions or side effects.
    • The healing power of nature (vis medicatrix naturae) – Naturopathic medicine recognises the human body’s natural and intelligent ability to heal itself. Naturopathic doctors act to identify and remove obstacles to healing and recovery, and to facilitate and augment this inherent self-healing process.
    • Identify and treat the cause, not just the effect (tolle causam) – A Naturopathic doctor will always try to identify and remove the underlying causes of illness rather than merely eliminate or suppress symptoms of diseases.
    • Treat the whole person (tolle totum) – Naturopathic doctors treat each patient by taking into account individual physical, mental, emotional, genetic, environmental, social, and other factors. Since total health also includes spiritual health, Naturopathic physicians also encourage their patients to pursue their personal spiritual development.
    • The physician as teacher (docere) – Naturopathic health professionals educate their patients and encourage self-responsibility for health. They also recognise and employ the therapeutic potential of the doctor-patient relationship.
    • Prevention is the best “Cure” (praevenire) – A Naturopath always emphasises the prevention of disease by assessing risk factors, heredity and susceptibility to disease, and by making appropriate interventions in partnership with their patients to prevent illness.

    I first trained in Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London as a nurse and worked in a couple of London hospitals as a registered nurse for about 22 years before deciding to train as a naturopath, nutritionist and medical herbalist. As a certified naturopath, nutritional consultant, medical herbalist, and holistic healthcare practitioner, I am happy today to be able to offer my clients personalised holistic health consultations which take into consideration all the above principles of naturopathic medicine.

    Healing naturally comes from within each individual and it must be approached holistically from many different viewpoints which include diet, lifestyle, stress reduction, rest, exercise, fresh air, plenty of sunlight, hydrotherapy and simple herbal remedies. What we naturopaths have recognised for years is the fact that it’s the body that heals itself of all diseases. It is not the doctor, it is not the drugs, and it is not surgery, all diseases are healed by the body itself! This is also pointed out centuries ago by Hippocrates when he said, “The body heals itself: The physician is only nature’s assistant”.

    In the light of this, all naturopathic doctors aim to do is assist the body in its endeavour to heal itself by providing it with adequate and effective tools to achieve this purpose in the form of good nutrition, vitamins and minerals, herbs and various other substances that are deemed necessary for the task in hand without harming the body in any way during the whole process. Also in line with this thinking, Thomas Edison was quoted as saying, “The doctor of the future will give no medicine (drugs), but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease”.

    The sheer arrogance of modern allopathic doctors and their narrow training which mainly focus on prescribing drugs and cutting out parts of the body, has made it almost impossible for them to give the human body’s intelligence and well recognised ability to heal itself the respect it deserves. This is why instead of working with the body to rid itself of disease, they tend to work against it by overloading it with toxic drugs with the view that they know better than nature.

    Today we live in a very toxic world. People today are full of toxins and we are also deficient in necessary nutrients because of the highly processed and lifeless foods we now choose to eat. There are many ways toxins enter our bodies these days. We ingest chemical laden food and drink water treated with chlorine and fluoride. The air we breathe is full of toxic vapours from industrial plants, jet fuel vapours and thousands of other impurities. We are bombarded daily with electromagnetic chaos from computers, mobile phones, power lines, television screens, etc.

    Despite the “wonders of modern medicine”, the state of human health throughout the world today continues to get worse and worse at an alarming rate. Debilitating diseases and chronic degenerative conditions that rarely manifested only a hundred years ago have today become increasingly common conditions in the young and adult population. Chronic pain and fatigue, indigestion and insomnia, diabetes and cancer, high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease and all sorts of crippling medical conditions now rule the lives of men and women all over the world, degrading the quality of their lives, and causing untold misery.

    Modern Western lifestyle has spread like cancer across the entire world, smothering traditional ways of life as we once knew it, traditional ways our ancestors used to live their lives that once kept the human body in a relatively healthy state of balance are being discouraged. Fast food and junk food, preservatives and additives, chemically contaminated air and water, reckless lifestyles and indiscriminate use of synthetic and recreational drugs, have all contributed immensely to the overall degradation of human health and the relentless pollution of the human body.

    Many of today’s most common and deadly diseases like cancer, diabetes and liver disease, are caused not by virus or bacteria but by long-term accumulation of toxins and acid wastes in the body, which creates the condition of tissue toxicity and acidity that germs require to invade the body. Likewise, most chronic degenerative conditions like immune deficiency, arthritis, etc., are primarily caused by blood and tissue toxicity produced from things that people put directly in their own bodies.

    As these acidic poisons fester and decay in various tissues, they damage body organs and glands, corrode joints and arteries, depress the nervous system, and inhibit immune response and other vital functions. This debilitating state of tissue toxicity is almost always self-inflicted, and it cannot be corrected with pills, injections, surgery, or any other “quick-fix” medical procedures.

    For all its highly touted surgical weaponry and massive arsenal of chemical drugs, conventional modern medicine has failed to defend humanity against this ever increasing malignant attack on our health and longevity. Rather than protecting people from this relentless onslaught of disease and degeneration, modern allopathic medicine simply tries to manage the disease symptoms with drugs and surgery, and the treatment often leads to even worse symptoms later because of the toxic side effects of the drugs in use.

    As far as we Naturopathic physicians are concerned, the only real way to cure any chronic disease or degenerative condition is to eliminate the root cause by ridding the body of the toxic build-up that pollute the blood and tissues, attract germs, and weaken resistance and immunity. That means detoxifying the internal environment of the human body, repairing the toxic damage done to vital organs, and restoring balance to all the basic vital functions. When the blood and tissues of the body have been purged of poisons, degeneration is arrested, viruses and bacteria cannot attack, and the body’s natural healing mechanisms repair the damage and restore optimum health to the whole system.

    As naturopathic doctors, we do not use drugs and we do not perform surgeries. We consider these totally unnecessary for healing the human body. As we have already established earlier, synthetic drugs are not designed to cure any disease, they are only used to manage symptoms of diseases and they do cause more diseases in the body, for which you will need even more drugs prescribed! “Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the human body” m . – F. Batmanghelidj, M.D. Placing someone on one drug or the other for the rest of their lives only helps the bank balance of the prescribing doctor and the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the drug, at the expense of the patient. Little wonder then that the pharmaceutical industry is by far the richest industry in the whole world. They profit enormously from people’s pains and misery.

    Modern medicine, by way of allopathic doctors, treats symptoms. The majority of the drugs you buy at pharmacies (99 percent) focus on treating symptoms. In other words, if you have a headache, the allopathic doctor gives you something for the pain, but doesn’t figure out what is causing the headache. If you can’t sleep, the doctor gives you a drug that helps you sleep, but doesn’t figure out what is keeping you awake. If you develop arthritis in the knee, the doctor gives you a drug for the pain, but doesn’t figure out the reason for the arthritis. If you have poor digestion, the doctor gives you a tablet that neutralizes the acid in your stomach and allows the food to go through your system without being digested. He doesn’t find the cause of the poor digestion, or even give you something that will digest the food.

    There are a thousand different drugs directed at symptoms and one side effect of many of these drugs is death. The sickest people are the people that take the most drugs, the more drugs you take, the sicker you get. Drugs are like poison in the body, there are no safe drugs, every drug is toxic to the human body. All drugs have side effects. Death is not a possible side effect of all of them, but most of them have caused a death at one time or another. Do you even know that over 250,000 Americans die every year from drugs prescribed for them by their physicians? Do you also know that over 2,000 people die every year from just taking aspirin? These are well documented facts, not fiction my friend.

    Why do you think  the drugs have been created to treat symptoms and not the causes of diseases? It’s no secret that drugs only treat symptoms. Most people already know this, just ask anyone interested in health. All of the medical research conducted by pharmaceutical companies is directed towards treating symptoms and not finding the real causes of medical problems. Well, the reason is that if you find the cause of a disease or health problem, you can usually cure the problem. In that case, you cannot continue to sell the drug over and over until the consumer finally dies.

    Billions of dollars are involved in the drug business. Treating symptoms does not cure or change the disease. While focusing on treating symptoms, the diseases keep advancing, getting worse and worse until it kills the victim. Why hasn’t there been any significant advancement in cancer treatment technology in 100 years? With one or two minor exceptions, allopathic doctors use the same treatments today as were used more than 100 years ago – chemotherapy, radiation and surgery; which themselves cause or spread cancer that they are supposed to help cure!

    Also, cutting out a tumour does nothing to cure cancer. Cancer is a systemic disease which means it permeates the whole system of the body. If you have breast cancer with a big lump lodged in your breast, it doesn’t mean that the cancer is totally restricted to this body organ, there are cancer cells all over your system. They are present in your blood, in the lymphatic system and in other cells of the body. Removing the cancerous breast does not represent a cure, after a while the cancer tumour will simply reappear in another body organ in a more virulent form. So surgery is not the answer for such a chronic and malignant disease as cancer.

    • To contact Dr Afolabi, call 07068230475, 08121206541, 07061360029 or 09056407384. Email- afolabi@hotmail.com
    • To be concluded next week.

     

  • Fall out of Swaziland, Nigeria tie – Oliseh, doctor blast Rabiu Ibrahim

    Fall out of Swaziland, Nigeria tie – Oliseh, doctor blast Rabiu Ibrahim

    •AS Trencín star blames injury for poor game

    Super Eagles’ Head coach,Sunday Oliseh got angry with AS Trencin midfielder,Rabiu Ibrahim after last Friday’s 2018 World Cup qualifier against Swaziland,SportingLife can reveal authoritatively.

    The ex-Eaglets’ star came in for Sylvester Igbonu at the start of the second half only to be replaced again by Oliseh in the 65th minute in a manner  that Oliseh substituted Ibrahim because he was deemed not to be playing according to instruction and the coach felt leaving him to continue the match was too risky considering that the Eagles were under severe pressure from the rampaging Swazis.

    After the game,it was gathered that when Oliseh enquired from the player why he played so woefully in the dressing room, the Slovakia based player responded by saying he was nursing an injury he sustained while playing for his club in Europe.

    “Oliseh was very angry with Ibrahim’s excuse because the player has been training with the national team since  lastTuesday and neither complained nor showed any sign of injury.

    “I think the coach just wanted the player to admit he performed below expectation and show remorse by apologising to his teammates and the coaches for letting them down in such a crucial stage in the game.”

    The team doctor and the physiotherapist were also livid at the excuse given by the diminutive midfielder because they felt the player was being economical with the truth.

    “Ibrahim did not reckon that what he said amounted to a huge indictment on the medics of the team who felt that there was no iota of truth in his explanation.

    “The medical crew argued that how can a player undergo rigorous training for almost a week without complaining of any pain, only to turn around to blame a mysterious injury for his poor outing against Swaziland,”the source disclosed.

  • Avoid sedentary lifestyle, expert urges Nigerians

    Avoid sedentary lifestyle, expert urges Nigerians

    Dr Kunle Aledare, Medical Consultant at the Kogi Ministry of Health, has urged Nigerians to avoid sedentary lifestyle and engaged in regular exercise to keep a healthy heart.

    The consultant spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lokoja.

    He said that the call was necessary to create public awareness on the high rate at which people die of heart related diseases.

    Aledare advised that people should endeavour to engage in at least 30 minutes regular exercise daily to burn down the accumulated fats that could obstruct the coronary artery.

    According to him, the coronary blood artery is the vessel that carries the flow of blood to and from the heart.

    He explained that blockage in the blood artery weakened the muscles and that it would lead to shortage of blood supply, which could result into heart attack.

    The expert said that those who were in the habit of sitting down all the day should desist from such lifestyle, stressing that it was dangerous to their health.

    “Adequate exercise or trekking for at least 30 minutes per day is one of the most preventive measures against heart attack.

    “People should also avoid tobacco smoking and inhaling of generator fumes.

    “We must avoid an environment with excessive generation of smoke; we must keep and maintain a well ventilated room,” Aledare said.

    Aledare urged people to check their blood sugar regularly, adding that 50 per cent of those that have diabetes were at higher risk of having heart related diseases.

    Aledare advised people to go for general medical checkups at least once in three month for blood pressure, cholesterol level, and sugar content in the blood.

    According to him, high blood pressure or hypertension, high blood sugar (diabetes), and high cholesterol level are among factors that can predispose people to heart conditions.

    “People should eat more of fishes, fruits, vegetables, and low salt intake to create and keep heart-healthy environment.

    “It is better to take adequate measures and precautions to prevent heart related conditions; prevention is better than cure,” the expert warned.

    The expert, however, urged the Federal Government to raise more awareness and educate people on the need to create and maintain heart-healthy environment.

    “The Federal Government should put stringent measures in place, and formulate policies to avoid air pollution which will promote the health of individuals.

    “These policies must be implementable at all levels of government.

    “The Federal Government should also commit adequate funds to health sector to make available modern equipment in federal teaching hospitals for the corrections of heart conditions,” he said.

    He said that most people with heart conditions basically complained of pains at the centre of the chest, adding that people sometimes mistake it for ulcer.

    He explained further that in some people, the chest pain might later extend to the neck, arm, shoulder, wrist and other parts of the body.