Response to doctors negligence tweet - from a doctor
This morning, this twitter user explained how a woman stormed a hospital in Lagos accusing them of leaving a pad inside her (Read here). A doctor, not the ones involved, just responded. Read below...
"This might be insignificant but as a doctor, I hate when our profession is brought to ridicule by some “attention seekers” who just want to paint us in bad light. The tweeter most likely didn’t know what was going on and just said what came to his mind.
Lets break down the facts. A pad was left in the woman since two days ago- two days after an operation, a woman is still in bed, just getting back on her feet. It is almost not possible to barge into the office.
Secondly, how did she see inside of her to know if a pad was left in her tummy or not? Even an x-ray machine would not pick up a pad in her abdomen. I am assuming it was a perineal (Vaginal) pad and it is normal to keep pads inside women after surgery because of bleeding. This is checked about twice a day and like any normal pad for menses, the patient should discard it at intervals.
It was sad that our fellow Nigerians failed to reason things out before blasting doctors. Nigerian doctors are well trained. We like other Nigerians have been failed by the system. We make do with what we can get access to. I agree that the female doctor was a little unprofessional but look at it- she wasn’t said to have insulted the woman back. The man didn’t even look at the fact that the woman who entered the office was invading his own Privacy as a patient too. Nigerian patients can be very obnoxious sometimes and need harsh tones to get messages across to them. May God help us all.
Doc P
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Graphic: Mob beats mentally ill woman to death for burning the Koran in Afghanistan
A mob in Afghanistan, punched, kicked, stoned, and beat a woman to death and then set her body on fire and threw it into a muddy river in Kabul yesterday Thursday March 19th for burning pages of Islam's holy book near the Shah-e Doh Shamshira shrine and mosque and it was all caught on tape.
The woman was later identified as 27 year old Farkhunda. Her parents later told police that she suffered from mental illness for many years and that she had not meant to burn Islam's holy book
The head of Kabul's criminal police General Farid Afzali told AFP: "A woman burned a copy of the Koran in the Shahi Doshamshira neighbourhood. She was killed. The woman's body was then thrown into the Kabul Rive"
A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior later confirmed that four suspects have so far been arrested in connection with the killing.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior later confirmed that four suspects have so far been arrested in connection with the killing.
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