RE: "Doctor, Doctor, save my child!": Cultivating Good Health-Seeking Behaviour
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Poor health seeking behavior isn't a thing that we can wish away. The truth is, people who even go to the hospital still die due to unavailability of proper medications...majorly because of costs.
Vancomycin is one of the rarest antibiotics available... Yet MRSA isn't so rare.
A proper health insurance is probably what would shift things in the health sector now.
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You have made a major point. There is a limit to how much good doctors can do when patients are unable to afford help.
However, there are some absolute basic things that go a long way in reducing mortalities just by encouraging people (especially the most financially challenged) to seek help.
For example, where I work currently, malaria testing and treatment is free of charge. Many patients don't know that!
Sometimes kind hearted investors have taken up a patient- and paid for the entire treatment.
However patients who never come would never have access to even the free things.
It is a fight that seems daunting. Victory seems impossible, to be honest. But we can start with the few things that are within our control.
You are right...
In your center malaria testing and treatment is free...
Imagine that the whole town comes to you for testing and treatment, free of charge... You think that man power and medical resources would not be depleted?
Nigeria is one of the biggest endemic regions to malaria... No matter how many well meaning individuals pay for treatment, there would always be outliers. And it is sad to say, that's how Nigerians see themselves a lot of times... Because the government has failed her again and again and again.