Someone drowned in a river.
He was rescued and taken to a mortuary without a doctor’s assessment- only to be found not to be dead.

Then from there he was taken for “rituals” before a river god.

This is “emergency response” offered by strangers to a victim of drowning in our country.

Imagine a drowning dying person being taken from mortuary to ritualists - when he should be in an ambulance to the emergency room of an equipped hospital.

Tomorrow someone will say it’s better to earn 200k in Nigeria than earn $2,000 in usa. Again, if you always only think about life in terms of money, you are very shortsighted and you can’t see the big picture. Availability of ambulance: Zero.
Knowledge of basic first aid: Zero.
Awareness of emergency response: Zero.

Everything about the story is saddening.
No emergency response. No urgent ambulance. No immediate medical attention.

No CPR knowledge.
No correct basic first aid done.

Have you seen someone suddenly develop seemingly unexplained face swelling on their eyelid/lips?

This is medically called ANGIOEDEMA.

It is a potentially serious medical condition that left untreated or if it gets severe, it can kill.

To learn more,
pls repost and follow thread/


What is angioedema?
Angioedema is a medical term that is used to describe sudden swelling that is most often caused by an allergic reaction.

It can affect different parts of the body.

This swelling can become very serious and life threatening if your throat becomes swollen and your breathing becomes affected. If nothing is done quickly, the person may be unable to breathe and die.

So what should you do?

Someone is just recovering from hangover of yesterday after many bottles and glasses of alcohol.

They will make a mistake of going into the shower to have a hot water bath.

DO NOT DO IT. DO NOT TRY IT.
Taking a hot water bath with alcohol in your system can make you drop dead.

Repost. Retweet. Help save a life. IF you have a hangover:
NEVER take a steambath or a hot shower.

Professional medical opinion is a combination of hot temperature with alcohol in your system can make your heart have an abnormal electrical activity which can lead to sudden death.

This is NOT a joke. Tell others.

I just read the sad story of a Nigerian who came to uk employed by an agency to work as a carer for elderly people.

She was assigned to care for an elderly patient who was dying and she was reported for “praying for the client to get better”.

Yeah. She got sacked and deported. For those expressing shock at the sack and deportation, let me explain further.

As a health worker/carer in uk, it is unethical to involve religion or impose your religious views on patients/clients.

It’s seen as abuse of trust and misuse of your position. You are expected to simply do your job and focus on your job.

I watched this video over and over again with a lot of sadness.

Not many Nigerians know what to do when a person collapses.

Remember that the collapsed person can be you. Or your friend. Or partner. Or parents. Or even family.

So what do you do when someone collapses?
Thread/

https://twitter.com/Mzrhemmy/status/1150862139311173634

A lot of people panic if a person collapses around them. And that’s because they don’t know what to do.

However, panicking doesn’t help.
Throwing your hands up and saying Eya does nothing for the victim.

You must learn how to do first aid
It may save the life of your loved one.