Healthy mothers raise healthy children. It should come across as no surprise that Nigeria also has a problem with child mortality considering the high maternal mortality rate. Child mortality is measured using two indices. The infant mortality rate (IMR) index measures the number of deaths under one year of age occurring among the live births…
Some women need permission from their spouses to attend antenatal care. This in itself is ridiculous in that antenatal care is geared towards the woman’s safety. Should she have to beg for her life? Some cultures may even believe that a woman must suffer during labour. Of course, if she dies in the process, it’s…
The last statistic available on maternal mortality in Nigeria was 2015, when it was somewhere close to 814 deaths per 100,000. We’ve come some way from 1990 though, not exactly a ‘long’ way but some way nonetheless. 1,350 in 1990 down to 814 in 2019 represents a 40% reduction in 30 years which isn’t much…
It’s okay if you’re concerned about your body image. Today, the media has managed to paint that picture-perfect person onto our minds, and we might realise we fall in line and get a tad obsessed with this imagery. It’s okay. It’s better if you just love yourself but wanting to look better is still okay.…
It’s only keeping in line with logic that most diseases today were named by the persons who discovered them. Hence, most diseases today have names in foreign language (English inclusive). After the permeation of western medicine methodology into African skies, it became imperative that diseases were giving local names. The Yoruba tribe were not to…
A few days ago, I came across a question directed at medical professionals while surfing the net. A woman wanted to know if a combination of drugs she used would suffice in preventing HIV/AIDs. Now, I don’t remember the exact names of the drugs she mentioned, I do remember that there were five in all…
For most of us, our first and supposedly only contact with anxiety disorders are via movies, especially those made by the American Hollywood. The protagonist could be a female or male character who’s usually a go getter obsessed with some particular routine. The movie ‘The Aviator’ in which Leonardo DiCaprio played the character of Howard…
Most people love good music. I happen to be a fan of any song that strikes the happy notes in me. Regardless of genre, good music has been found to possess a couple of health benefits that might interest you. Let’s delve into it as much as we can. Let’s start with the stark obvious.…
I came across a thread on Twitter recently. A medical doctor was walking on his street when four women ran past him, screaming ‘blood of Jesus’. In her curiosity, he moved closer to the source of the commotion and met a young child convulsing. He expectedly couldn’t believe his eyes when people started calling for…
Depression, Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, Suicide and any other disease or phenomenon arising from mental health problems have existed as long as mankind and will probably continue to survive down the years. This problem has not been made any better by the stigmatization of people with mental health problems which is rife in these parts. What’s more?…