By Segun Orisajo
The Medical Director of Crescent University Clinic, Dr (Mrs) Marian Oladipo has identified malaria as the biggest health challenge among the students of the institution.
Speaking in an interview, the Medical Director disclosed that although the clinic attends to several other health cases presented at the clinic, she remarked however that “majorly, the highest number of patients we attend to on a daily basis are malaria related.
“We do primary care here. We attend to cases such as urinary tract infection, skin diseases, hypertension among others. Often time, we refer pediatric and gynecological cases to competent government hospitals in town”.
Dr (Mrs) Oladipo explained that the clinic attends to no fewer than 900 patients on a monthly basis.
Her words, ‘Every day except during holidays or semester breaks, we attend to no fewer than 30 patients on a daily basis”
To curtail malaria disease, the Medical Director advocated attitudinal change from the students and members of the hospital community.
“Our people needed to know the benefits of sleeping under the insecticide treated mosquito nets in addition to keeping a clean environment”.
She urged the authorities of the institution to set up an Environmental Sanitation Committee to be saddled with the responsibility of keeping the university environment tidy.
On the issue of illicit use of drugs among students, Dr Oladipo said the university has a system whereby the students are often randomly picked and test for intake of hard drugs. She said the university regularly sensitize the university community on the dangers of taking hard drugs.
Dr Oladipo identified immaturity of the students as one of the biggest headache of the clinic .
Her words ,”Majority of our patients are youths, the under- aged”. Many of them were leaving the presence of their parents for the first time. Many of them do not know how to explain how they feel when they come here because their mothers had always been doing the talking for them while at home.
The Medical Director urged the students to be mindful of the health implication of what they eat or drink.
She advised he students to stop the
practice of self- medication saying, “Any time you are not feeling fine, report yourself at the clinic where you will be thoroughly examined and attended to rather than engage in self-medication”.
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