AVOIDING WRONG PRACTICES

THE SAFE MOTHERHOOD EMPOWERMENT & ENLIGHTENMENT INITIATIVE (SMEEI) PARTNERING WITH HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS FOR SAFE DELIVERY AND GOOD HEALTH

AVOIDING WRONG PRACTICES

INTRODUCTION:

Giving medical attention to people is a great responsibility.  When people are given the wrong drugs or the wrong advice they can die or be seriously hurt.  When the right advice and/or medications and care are given life is preserved.  You cannot give what you don’t have.  The much you have is the much you give.  Your progress depends on the quality of care you give to people.  The quality of care you offer depends on the quality of knowledge and understanding available to you.

The Safe Motherhood Empowerment and Enlightenment Initiative (SMEEI) working for safe delivery of women recognize the strategic role patent medicine dealers and other health workers working among the people play in issues pertaining to the health of the people.  The patent medicine dealer or the health worker living among the people is the first port of cell of the sick including those pregnant but sick.  Their services are relatively cheap and they are very close to the people and many of them treat people on compassionate grounds as majority of our people are poor and can hardly afford the fees charged by hospitals.

SMEEI is a medical literacy outfit run by highly skilled specialists who have been called by God to make their medical knowledge available to the people including the patent medicine dealers and other health workers.  This is to enable them make informed decisions about how to treat and advice people that come to them on daily basis so as to ensure the safety of such people.  Diagnosis or knowing what is wrong with a patient is the key to knowing what to do for such a person, knowing the proper use of drugs to avoid harm to the patient and the drugs that are safe in pregnancy will enhance the well being of our people.

This package will increase the medical knowledge profile of patent medicine dealers and other health workers in order to help them make correct diagnosis and so give appropriate care to their clients.  It will also enable them choose wisely clients to treat and those to refer to hospitals – those whose conditions are severe enough to warrant further investigations and care by specialists.  This will help avoid delaying patients with serious medical conditions in their outfits. 

My name is Dr. Michael Uche-Obasi M.B.,B.S(NIG.); FWACS

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