Living in Nigeria at a time like this has its own reality when it comes to healthcare outcomes. You obviously do not need the services of a prophet to know that owing to the non-functionality of our regulatory institutions here in Nigeria, most of the products we consume are adulterations of the original version and this accounts largely for one of the reasons organ damages are on the rampage in the country.
There are reasons why you must be deliberate about where you get health care services from in Nigeria this year. It is well known that healthcare facilities in Nigeria that offer quality healthcare services are always pricey. The reason why you must not look at the unit cost paid at these pricey facilities while in search of quality healthcare services, is that in a nation where the healthcare insurance services are relatively nonfunctional when compared to what is obtainable in civilized climes, these institutions would only be left with the option of recouping their investments by billing their clients for such services.
There is every reason why you must be deliberate this year to seek health care services from institutions that have skilled professionals as their members of staff. This is aimed at making sure that one is not misdiagnosed or given a Laboratory result that was cooked up without painstakingly going through the international certified processes to achieve such results.
The emphasis of this write up is on making sure that general public understand that once you make your blood samples available to any diagnostic center, it is a must that you would get a result but the real issue lies in if this said result speaks to your physiological state at the time the investigation was carried out.
This is the reason why it is advisable to always patronize diagnostic centers that are appropriately accredited for the services they render to the public.
We must take deliberate steps to eat very healthy in the new year, exercise more, drink a lot of water and patronize health care centers that are reputed for excellent service delivery for our routine health checks. We must not wait till we are sick to know what our health status are and why we must pay attention to what our health says.
In this new year, you must make a choice to consult with your Physician with respect to vaccines that you must start in the new year and follow through on the dosage courses till it is completed. Infections like Hepatitis and Human papillomavirus infections and a few others can be prevented by taking a decision to start their vaccines today.
With the high rate of breast cancer among women of our dispensation especially women of Black African origin, there is a sense in which we must prioritize early diagnosis of these cancers and following up with their treatments.
Wherever you would have to delay some sorts of gratification in the interest of your health, always know that such choices would be worth it on the long run.
Finally, in this new year it would be worthwhile for you to know that the best approach to staying healthy in the new year is to be deliberate about what goes into our various mouth as we must always prioritize the consumption of vegetables, whole grains, exercising more, routine health checkups at accredited facilities. The decision to live a healthy life is a choice we must make and follow through with actions only.