NUHU ANYEGU : THE HEALTH OF ONE MAN IS THE HEALTH OF ALL

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We are here for a very serious business. The business is very serious that I will leave the campus community of my college at this time of the day to come to this place. It really tells you the importance attached to this business of this morning.  I will look at us, one,  as a volunteer organization, a group of professionals that will help Nigeria out of the present challenge we find ourselves.  

I am not here today as a provost, College of Health Sciences and Technology Idah.
 I am here as a professional, an individual that is at the forefront of campaign against communicable diseases outbreak in Nigeria. I am the State Chapter President of Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria and again the Deputy National President of the Same Association. It is in that capacity I am here this morning for those of us in tune with our radio, the previous Saturday, I was at Lokoja the for one hour exhaustive interview on Lasser Fever incidents in the country. We need to narrow it down, because it is not everybody that will listen to radios.

 As I am talking to you here my men, the professional colleagues in my College are mobilized, around Kogi State are going round all Schools, primary, secondary and eventually tertiary institution in Kogi stage and beyond to sensitize people on this present scourge by Lasser Fever infection and by extension other communicable diseases prevalent in Nigeria. But the most urgent one is the Corona Virus Diseases and Lasser Virus Infection.

A Cross section of Upperroom International School Idah Members of Staff at the Sensitization exercise

There is this particular slogan we use in environmental health profession. We call it sanita sanitatum ominia sanitat, the meaning is “the health of one man is the health of all”, I will explain from that point; the health of a single man is very important to the entire public. Why? The health of one man can influence many. Similarly the ill health one man can also influence many. Ebola Virus diseases which took place, somebody imported it from the western world to Lagos. A medical Doctor contracted it, Eventually she died. It almost went viral, if the sustained efforts of the Federal Government and our Environmental Health Officers which brought the Ebola to a halt. And here comes Lasser FEVER infection.

Your health is important to us. It is also important to this country and that is why we are here. As a matter of extension whatever message I give to you today, please endeavor to educate those who are not here now, any other associate of yours. Find time to educate them about it. When you eventually go back for the holiday, make out time to educate your parents, friends.etc.  This is because the health of one man is (by extension) the health of all. 

Communicable disease normally starts from one person before it spread to other.   It is available now in Edo, Ondo, Kogi and some other states in Nigeria. And if we don’t work as we are working now. Before you knows it will spread like wild fire across the country, and if it becomes an outbreak of that proportion. We are in trouble. You may ask me why?  Nigeria does not have a well organize waste management system. We do not have a well formed medical service. Some professionals are nowhere to be found in some hospitals let alone to talk about drugs. In short, as far as waste management is concern I think it is zero.

 
I am yet to find a single health facility in Kogi State where we have incinerator for management of clinical waste. I am talking about hospital waste which is completely different from common waste. Students have you heard what we call leusokomia infection?  It is an infection you will contract right in the hospital. The primary aim of going to hospital is to receive treatment. However, on getting back to your home the diseases that are with the patient in the hospitals will get back to you. It is a clear manifestation of leukosomia infection! Because we do not have a well organized waste management system in hospitals. Hospital wastes are dangerous waste and highly pathogenic. Feces or excreta from people around your house that are healthy, it is either from the ones that are there in the hospital or otherwise. A person suffering from typhoid fever went to the hospital perhaps as he defecate, the feces contains thousands and millions of bacteria responsible for the sickness… the urine of patients contain micro organisms ...to be continued

BEING AN EXCERPT TAKEN FROM THE SPEECH DELIVERED BY NUHU ANYEGU, PROVOST COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY DURING A SENSITIZATION TOUR VOLUNTARILY ORGANISED BY THE SPEAKER AS A PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICER AT UPPERROOM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL IDAH KOGI STATE NIGERIA.

INTHE PICTURE ARE PROFESSIONAL COLLEAGUES : 1. Mall. ABU HUSSEIN SARAJA
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