Ex-Minister Wants Regular Check-Ups For Better Health

The former Minister of
Transport, Dr Abiye Sekibo has harped on the need for regular medical check-up to ascertain the true status of one’s health.
Sekibo gave the advice at a health lecture organised by the former lawmaker representing Port Harcourt Federal Constituency II, Mrs Blessing C. Nseigbe for the Rumuwoji Community in Port Harcourt Local Government Area, recently.
While noting that regular medical check-up would facilitate early detection and treatment of most ailments Sekibo said however, that poverty, ignorance and lack of education have served as impediments in the course of ascertaining the true state of one’s health medically.
According to him “health is  wealth. It is the total being of a man. If you do not have good health you can hardly do anything even to survive”.
Sekibo who condemned self-medication in its entirety said it is only a medical-check-up that would reveal the ailment and urged everyone to irrespective of the economy go for regular medical check up to avoid a total breakdown of the body system.
Also speaking, the programme organiser, Blessing Nseigbe cautioned against delayed medical check up which she described as doing the body system more harm than good.
“Nigerians are fond of procrastinating seeing a doctor. At the onset of the ailment they will not see the doctor until the situation gets worse and most times they do so when it is a terminal ailment. They prefer to go to a pharmacy instead of going for proper medical test”, Nseigbe stated.
Nseigbe maintained that such act had led to unwarranted deaths which otherwise would have been detected earlier and averted.
She said “though the means may not be there, let us know that it is our health that matters first. When we are healthy, we can go about our works and businesses and so, let’s always visit our doctors and stay healthy for ourselves, families, state and nation.”

Benice Iragunima