The global financial crisis could have profound implications for the health spending plans of national governments and unless countries have safety nets in place, the poor and vulnerable will be the first to suffer, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. Dr. Harry Taiwo Ladapo, the Chief Medical Director of Federal Neuro Psychiatry Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, in this interview with CHUKWUMA MUANYA, x-rays the situation and proffers solutions to keeping sane in the midst of the financial meltdown.
that constitute the problem. And there has been no solution apart from maybe palliatives, prayer; giving olive oil, barbiturates and all sorts of drugs to calm victims down. But there was no drug to arrest the main problem of madness which is delusion and hallucination until in the 50s when science was now able to identify a specific neuro hormone responsible and that neuro hormone was called Dopamine. Science now thought that the only way to cure this condition is to block the excessive production of dopamine.
When dopamine is produced excessively in the system, the individual now becomes something else-be talking rubbish, be hearing voices, be deluded, be roaming the streets, be out of touch with reality and that is what we call madness in this environment.
Failure to notify a Physician: If a patient who is on admission in a psychiatric hospital, develops severe diarrhea and informed the Nurse on duty, and the Nurse fails to immediately inform the physician, and the patient’s condition deteriorates before the physician is informed; resulting in the patient’s death, the Nurse on duty will be held for act of negligence.
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