Copied: Awofaa Gogo Abite wrote.. I beg to quote... Few hours ago, I was with a colleague who went to Nigeria for two months clinical practice and when he narrated his ordeals, I was short of adjectives to qualify our kind of mentality. He narrated a story of a woman who had few miscarriages and luckily her last pregnancy was a successful one and she was given a time to come for delivery. Unfortunately her church refused that she goes to the hospital for delivery and attributed her previous miscarriages to spiritual attacks. They decided that she delivers in the church amidst prayer warriors and she delivered but the baby didn’t cry and with their spiritual wisdom they decided to pour hot water on the child’s back around the spine to make her cry but all to no avail. They further poured the hot water on her palms and when this got really blue, they stopped speaking in tongues an rushed the baby to the hospital. At the hospital the doctors including my colleague who was in as an intern nearly cried how a child on the first day of life has been subjected to such an unfair treatment due to religious sentiments growing on the field of ignorance. It would have been easy for them to resuscitate the baby because she was born with “ASPHYXIA” but then her body has been damaged with massive edema due to burns. Our society is in serious need of reorientation, there are a million and one medical reasons for miscarriages and spiritual attacks aint one. We are paying heavily for our ignorance, people are not interested in what goes on in the hospitals until they get sick and the idea of spiritual attack is obviously made invalid to them. This is the same reason why people don’t demand the upgrade of hospitals because in a very religious nation like ours people are told everyday that sickness is not their portion, it’s the plan of the enemies and they are covered, with this kind of mentality how will the government take the upgrading of the hospitals serious?
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 22:48:51 +0000