THE WORLD IN EMERGENCY

There are certain professions that can't just be allowed to go on strike no matter how bad the economy seems to be. The government can not just afford to allow them to go no matter how bad they are as it will eventually backfire on them. Here in Nigeria, we see schools go on strike for as much as 2 years and the government is still too hesitant in responding to their needs. But now imagine hospitals going on strike for that long. Imagine how much fatality the nation would suffer, imagine how many women would die of Labor pain, imagine how many children would not be born, imagine how many accidents would be unattended to, imagine how common illnesses would kill people. Even the rich would be at the mercy of such a strike because having all the money in the world would become useless when your loved one is dying and you can't do anything about it simply because there are no medical professionals to come to your aid.

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And when I think about it the more, that's not even the worst that could happen. Imagine how many people will die at the hands of quacks simply because the professionals are unavailable and when the need becomes unavailable, the available because needed. There are people who will use such an opportunity to sell all kinds of quack stuff and fake medicines because they know people will buy it out of desperation. A lot of fake pastors will thrive on the wings of such an event to sell nonsense to the public who would buy in desperation. These are things that already go on daily, now imagine what would happen when the only thing that has successfully mitigated the activities of all these vices is taken away, what would be left of us. More people will die of the fear of being sick than those who are even sick. The words on the mouth of everyone would be don't fall sick.

How would it feel to call your family doctor and he tells you he can't help because even after explaining how you feel he/she tells you there's nothing they can do at the moment because on a normal day they would have advised you ran test to know exactly what is wrong with you and they wouldn't want to enter into trouble for prescribing a medicine that ends up causing more harm to you. Even the doctors are not free, going into strike means they can't get treatment for themselves, and because they are not allowed to self medicate, they would secretly end up doing so and might cause more harm to themselves because of a wrong diagnosis. The world isn't ready for the health system to go on strike, no nation on earth is ready for it, and I pray there never comes a time where doctors will go on a really long strike because it will be bad for not just the masses but even the government as well. I mean they have relatives who still live in the country, and pray they don't fall into an emergency themselves.

THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 172 EPISODE 3