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NIGERIANS are in distress. Buffeted by hunger, poverty, illiteracy and diseases for years, they have entered the terminal consequences of decades of neglect by governments that profess to serve the people.

Most recently, strange illnesses that defy their resources have joined the siege against the Nigerian. Malnourishment, one of the excruciating effects of poverty, has pushed the Nigerian to food sources that cannot protect his body. He is at the mercy of all types of illnesses.

The evidences abound. From those who die in the rural areas where deaths are still attributed to the anger of gods that demand unattainable sacrifices to the strange ailments that some people display on the streets of Lagos, while soliciting assistance, it is clear that Nigerians are grinding out their last phase of meaningful existence. Some with cancers are on the street asking for money to treat themselves. Where would they get the money? Children, some still suckling, are down with illnesses that their parents do not know.

Among the factors held responsible for these illnesses are poor diets, foreign foods that do not pass proper inspection, junk foods that are gaining acceptance in the urban areas, environmental pollution, especially in the oil producing areas and places close to industrial estates.

Whatever the causes are, governments have done little to assess the plight of Nigerians. Assistance to all those involved is impossible without knowledge of them and their predicaments. Some have kidney, heart, or liver failures. Others have ailments that defy diagnoses within their means.

The pathetic sights on the streets of Lagos of women exposing cancer ravaged breasts or of men showing off their elephantiasis blighted scrotum to gain sympathy of passers by are indication of people who have declined from being hopeful to sheer desperation. They have lost a big chunk of their humanness.

It is dehumanising to behold these sights. It is worse to imagine how long these people had agonised in silence before conquering the shame to show off diseases in their most private parts, hoping they can elicit the public’s sympathy.

Where can Nigerians in need get help? What really is the essence of governments, if after all these years, hardly anything is done to improve the welfare of Nigerians? How do governments intend to tackle these problems that are becoming national fixtures all over the country?

The helplessness of the Nigerian is obvious. The rich, with all the resources available to them, cannot get good medical services in Nigeria. How the poor survive leaves little to the imagination.

What makes this an emergency is the fact that these deaths cast debilitating effects on the survivors. In the absence of medical insurance, whole families pool their resources into rescuing one of their own, who invariably dies, leaving debts that trap the living in further despondency.

immediate intervention is required to arrest these situations. They are getting worse. Nigeria cannot continue to ignore these concerns.


-vanguard newspaper nigeria

March 26, 2008 | 6:33 PM Comments  1 comments

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November 13, 2008 | 1:55 AM
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