Nigerians do not seek early medical attention because of the high poverty rate in the country and lack of adequate health information, some experts have said.
The medical outreach, a six-day mission, holds April 5 to 10. It will provide free ophthalmological, dental, and surgical services to less privileged Nigerians. “They think they have been given drugs, treated and it’s done. We don’t have that culture of yearly medical checkups. As such follow up care for grassroots education is necessary for them to understand that if you are diagnosed with hypertension, it means that you are hypertensive for life,” she said.
“I can’t even treat you effectively if you have not even taken what you have been given so we need to start proper grassroots education. Training the right people to give the right information is very important,” she said. According to him, “simple things we do within public health education will reduce the disease consequences and go a long way on preventive measures.”
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