Catherine💘

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This reminds me of a man who had spent years in Abuja struggling to make it everyday. He is well connected though. He said, if,by the age of 50, he didn’t make it, he’d build a house in his village and be telling stories about Maitama, Asokoro etc. under a mango tree to people 😂

Nigeria is so dystopian. Hours away people are running for their lives, in the sw we’re throwing raves every weekend.

@ChukwukaNnorom @Oghenerukevwe_N @officialunth Well done Dr!

🍃Proof of life🍃 Today i finished my surgery rotation as a house officer(junior doctor) in @officialunth . Ended the department with cardiothoracic surgery which I did for 1 month. In the last 1 month I had no social life, no time for self or any other person, almost always in the hospital, almost always on call, almost always working and with all these I was still owed🤧 by @MDCNOfficial . But as the saying goes "whatever has a beginning has an end“, glad to say I’m done, it was a roller coaster. Some of the procedural skills i acquired in cardiothoracic surgery: - Closed tube thoracotomy drainage (CTTD) - Pleurodesis - Peripherally inserted central catheterization (PICC) - Thoracentesis Some surgeries I observed: - Lobectomy - thymectomy - rigid oesophagoscopy + oesophageal dilation - sternotomy #medicaltraining #doctor

My friend Victor Daniel on his Facebook dropped some very very insightful comments responding to this very tweet I’m quoting on seyi tinubu and most Nigerian rich elites that I just have to share. Bottom line is, this people see but literally do not understand in any way,the plights of the average Nigerian…

Doctors in Nigeria 🥺

Repetitive negative thinking is associated with the accumulation of Alzheimer's dementia protein in the brain. Stay positive.

My contribution to medicine in Nigeria? I don't overwork my houseofficers. I even do more work. I teach medical students gently and sign their papers. Plus I spent IWD using my skills keeping human beings alive. Praise God.

Patient came to the Antenatal Clinic, saw a house office eating gala and jokingly asked to share with him. The HO obliged and gave her . That evening she was admitted through the ER for Preterm contractions. During the rounds the next day, she kept asking the SR and Consultant if what happy to her had anything to do with eating gala. These patients are not your friends or family members, let your kindness be very limited when you see them. They won't mind if the license that took you years of tears and blood is burnt in a minute. They will turn to the next Doctor with a valid. Be Reasonable and wise!

Justin has never lied though 🌚

_*WHEN IS TOO MUCH REALLY TOO MUCH*_ _*what we should all be worried about*_ I write this with great constraint, sadness and a profound sense of loss of faith. In the last one (1) month, three doctors lost their lives. Three members of NARD lost their lives. 1. Dr. Salome Oboyi, A Senior Registrar in the Obs and Gynae department of BHUTH Jos 2. ⁠Dr. Jamila Umar Danhassan, A Registrar in Community Medicine Department of AKTH Kano 3. ⁠Dr. Akinjobi Carrington, A House Officer in LASUTH Lagos. It would interest us all to know that this brings the number of Resident Doctors who lost their lives in the last four and a half (4 1/2) months to (10) ten. It would interest you to also know that a Resident Doctor also tested positive (and eventually tested negative for Lassa Fever) in the last 2 weeks. Will it not baffle your imagination to know that a Resident Doctor is battling for her life in a hospital in Enugu following a road traffic accident? I am angry, I am scared, I am afraid I may be next, I am awake to my own thoughts these days and a prisoner to it. Nigeria, what have we done wrong as Doctors? Life is just moving on in Nigeria as if nothing has happened. Of the 9,000 resident Doctors at the federal level and another 1,000 at the state level, 10 have lost their lives in less than 5 months. We have lost over 10,000 Resident Doctors over the last 10 years to Migration and we are on course to loose another 10,000 in the next 10 years with a net deficit of about a thousand (1,000) doctors per year. New recruitment into Residency Training has dropped by more than 40% in the last few years. Attrition rate out of Residency Training has also increased with over 4,600 doctors leaving the shores of Nigeria in 2024 alone. I am sure, Nigeria did not produce more than this number of Doctors from our medical schools in 2024. We now have more Senior Registrars than Registrars, more Senior Registrars than there are House Officers in Nigeria. Add these (now regularly regular) deaths to the statistic, we are surely heading in the wrong direction. Ten (10) is a few too many, especially in Nigeria where these 10 Doctors by population are suppose to cover at least 100,000 Nigerians with a doctor to patient ratio approaching 1:10,000. WHO recommends 1:600 to 1,000. We have approximately 25,000-30,000 Doctors currently actively practicing at various levels and strata of patient care in Nigeria. To cover our entire population, we need over 300,000 Doctors. What the above statistics mean is this. 30,000 Doctors are doing the Job that should be done by 300,000 Doctors. And off the 30,000, Resident Doctors are less than half of that. When doctors die, or any health care professional die, it is a source for worry and panic. Is this not a national crisis? Doesn’t this deserve our attention? What is killing our Doctors? What may be responsible? (not in order of priority); 1. Excess work load. 2. ⁠Lack of Motivation and under appreciation. 3. ⁠Poor Remuneration and excess outstanding monetary arrears. 4. ⁠Challenges in career progression. 5. ⁠Lack of Job satisfaction. 6. ⁠Epidemiological and natural distributions of disease entities. 7. ⁠Security challenges. 8. ⁠Inability to afford services in Nigerian Hospitals. 9. All of the above? 10. ⁠etc 10 care givers gone. 10 healers gone when they were needed the most. Why am I worried; 1. I can be next and the whole country would just move on and I become a statistic. 2. ⁠These hospitals would simply replace them with anyone alive, available and willing. And work will just continue as if… 3. ⁠The Nigerian Health Sector will just continue in its march to decline, silently. 4. ⁠Their families will never be whole again. 5. ⁠The Nigerian Government simply cares little or nothing. The next election is more valuable to Government, certainly. 6. ⁠The Nigerian People are simply too unaware, too poor, too distracted to even notice. @channelstv @seunokin @ARISEtv @tvcnewsng

Except I’m dead I won’t buy an already curated gift box for my partner.

LOSS OF A HERO 🕊️ On behalf of Dr. Mohammad Usman Suleiman–led NARD NOC, E-NOC, NEC Members, the Crown Prince of NARD, and the entire NARDITES, we mourn with heavy hearts the tragic and untimely passing of Dr. Salome Oboyi, Senior Registrar in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Bingham University Teaching Hospital (BHUTH), Jos. Dr. Salome passed on Monday, 2nd February 2026, after contracting Lassa Fever from a patient under her care—a painful reminder of the daily risks doctors take while serving humanity. She did not die chasing fame. She did not die seeking applause. She died doing her job—saving lives. A selfless doctor. A devoted healer. A fallen hero. Her death is not just a personal loss to her family or an institutional loss to BHUTH; it is a collective tragedy for the Nigerian medical community and a glaring symbol of a systemic failure that continues to claim the lives of our finest minds in silence. We sincerely commiserate with the Management of Bingham University Teaching Hospital, her colleagues, friends, her grieving family, the entire NARDITES, and the Nigerian medical community at large. May her sacrifice not be forgotten. May her death not be in vain. May her story awaken a nation. Rest in perfect peace Dr. Salome Oboyi 🕊️ Your light will not fade. Dr. Abdulmajid Yahya Ibrahim NARD PSS 05:02:2026

Nurses are really under this tweet defending their rights not to do pre-transfusion vitals?? We are really in the pit 🫠 If you won't do vitals, what then do you want to do at work? Sit down and write nursing note for hours? And then go home🥴

It’s so beautiful

i think its cute when somebody works hard to get back into ur good graces lol

Someone said "good evening dear" to this driver Driver said, abeg o no call me dear. I don marry. Me: How will your wife know a passenger called you dear Driver: E no get anything i no dey tell my wife 🤣🤣

I want to be liquid to the point of reflex gifting. Bro, I just called for that interview oh, fiam 50K data money. Bro, I passed the exam. Fiam. 30K suya money. Fam, I just bought a car. Fiam, take full the tank. 😅😅gifting is such a sweet thing.

Nobody: Me when I have a bottle of cashew nuts in my fridge