The big lesson from COVID-19 — Consultant surgeon, Lagos General Hospital

Dr Olaseinde Martins, a consultant surgeon with the Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital, Lagos, in this interview with, x-rays the Coronavirus pandemic that is currently ravaging the world. He also shares with us some of his high and low moments in the course of his medical career over the years. Excerpts:The principles of life are applicable to all, notwithstanding the professions. You need to be alive to keep other people alive.

Well, we are not going to stigmatise China because of any disease because it could actually come from anywhere. It is a global one; the air we breathe here is the same that they breathe in China. It is not about China but again, we must also look at our practices; our lifestyles in terms of how we live; our hygiene, what we feed on; then our cultural and social practices that may as well promote or bring some of these diseases.

Everyone believes that America is the world champion, in terms of knowledge and capacity. I must say that as a doctor and pastor, this is a humbling moment for the entire world. To the scientists, we have been humbled. To those who claim all the knowledge of the world, we have been humbled. Even the religious bodies have been humbled. A single, invisible virus has rumbled our entire world and closed down our system; it is indeed a humbling moment for us.

If I call it an embarrassing moment, I may be right or I may be wrong. It started like an embarrassing moment but ended as a rewarding moment. That day, I was leaving the hospital, I saw a woman at the gate crying. I had closed, I wasn’t on call. I had called my wife that I was on the way home. I heard a voice within me saying: ‘Go back and help that woman’. I turned back immediately. I discovered that the woman brought a sick child of six months.

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