A Public Hospital in Buenos Aires – How is that of Lagos or Abuja ?

By

Engr. Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe

oghoerore@oviri.com.ar

Few days ago, I had just visited three of my customers after which I felt a very strong headache, which made me immediately go the public hospital where my wife works as a nurse in this city of Buenos Aires .

My wife measured my blood pleasure and noted that it was above 220mm of Hg, for this reason, she rushed me straight to the emergency section to the doctor who after testing me ordered that I be admitted immediately into the coronary unit for hypertension.

At the coronary unit, I was connected to one electrocardiogram and simultaneously every two hours, I was connected to an electrocardiograph that plotted out my cardiac activity.

I looked around the unit and saw that there were eight such beds like mine equipped equally. Each of us the patients were being monitored at the office of the nurses by central monitors and a recorder recorded all the information on a tape. I looked father off and saw comprehensive electronic devices that also monitor every one of the patients.

In my case, a doctor and a nurse measured and plotted my heartbeat every two hours in the first night. Blood samples were removed from me every two hours and results were out twenty minutes after the extraction. The room was filled with electronic equipments that worked perfectly. As an Electronic Engineer that also major in electro medicine, I watched the screen to the graphs plotted by the equipments.

From my understanding of the engineering of those electronic equipments, under good electricity supply, those equipments should work perfectly for more that twenty years without need for repairs, not even to change a fuse will be needed.

The following day, I was taken to the echo-Doppler machine for more tests and the following night about midnight I was sent for computed tomography for pictures of my heart.

Right there in the coronary unit, a portable x-ray machine was used to scan every one of us and in few minutes the results were out.

Nigerians!!!!!!!! Throughout this process, the Argentine NEPA did not take light.

After two nights, with all the scientific test done, the doctors studied all the result including the plotted graphs and pictures taken, after being satisfied that I was out of danger, they allowed me to be transferred from the coronary unit to the cardio logical ward.

At the coronary unit, on my right hand was a sixty four year old Bolivian waiting for pace marker, unto his right was a Chinese from Shanghai . To my left was an eighty-nine year old Italian whom I called uncle because my wife is of Italian parents.

It was two days later, a Monday that my wife had to fill the admission form. The priority of the Argentine doctors in all public Medical Centers was first to save life without asking for identification of any kind. Nationality is not a condition for medical attention in Argentine public Medical Center . Everyone that steps into a Hospital here in Argentina has the right to be treated and if he cannot pay for medical drugs, the Hospital must provide for him. If he be admitted, he has the right to food, medicines etc. His residential status either legal or illegal, criminal or innocent or colour of skin or nature of hair can never affect nor alter his right to medical attention in any Argentine Public medical Center.

In the cardiological ward, every bed has its individual set of lamp, outlet sockets for radio, small TV, and laptop computer. My wife brought me a radio with which I listened to BBC World Service to follow up the news about Africa .

It was the first time in my life that I am admitted into a hospital.

On my hospital bed, I meditated a lot; reading the Holy Bible, praying and my mind went to Africa and to my beloved homeland Nigeria in particular. I saw in this hospital the efficiency of good electric power supply and I understood the great danger that NEPA posed to our people. NEPA in its absolute wickedness supplies 160 deformed volts instead of the 220 volts sine wave form rated for Nigeria . The deformed electricity is what is being used to inoperate electro-medical equipments to decide the medical state of Nigerians. My people! All those statistics about AIDS and causes of mortality measured in Nigeria lack accuracy, they are qualitatively poor, unreliable and thus void.

Before continuing, let me probe the condition of measurements done under a deformed waveform like that in Nigeria . The photoelectric principle states that when a ray of light is passed through a medium, the output light wave on the other side of the medium contains the information of (in a layman’s language) the colour of the medium. In the blood test laboratory, the blood is mixed with other chemical in a test tube whose sample is put over a glass that is observed by a microscope to see the colour that give information to the biochemist. This method produces a lot of errors because the reading depends on the healthiness of the eye that reads through the microscope, the error is greater when NEPA produces 160 deformed volts instead of 220 volts which means that the biochemist is reading information under a dimmer light which makes the result technically unacceptable. God is The Greatest that is why Nigerians are still alive. The photo-electric principle gave electronics engineers a tool with which they created modern electronics equipment for measuring the opacity of the light passed though the test tube to understand the chemistry of its content. The chemistry within acts as a filter of light wave whose output wavelength gives the information about the colour of its content.

How is this engineering implemented?

There is diode called led that is found on most modern day radio sets that indicate the signal level when tuning a radio station. The diode has a fixed voltage drop across it when electric current is passed through. The luminosity produced by it depends on the current passed through. This current is limited by a series resistor the engineers calculate for a certain voltage rate which maybe 9 volts or twelve volts. The light emitted by the diode is acceptably monochrome. This light is guided to the test tube. On the opposite side, a light to voltage sensor if placed producing a voltage which varies as the light that is illuminated on it. An alternative is a photo resistor whose resistance varies with the intensity and wavelength of the light that illuminates upon its surface. The output voltage is measured or used to modulate a voltage control oscillator whose frequency is converted into a quantity interpretable to medical doctors. In some cases, the output voltage is applied to an analog to digital converter that gives a digital and numerical result of the read information. This equipment has one analogical section and one digital section. The digital section is operated usually through a 5-volt voltage regulator, which need a minimum and maximum input voltage to produce a fixed output under a determinate environmental condition. This is where my problem with NEPA arises. The power transformer inside the equipment converts 110 volts or 220 Volts into 9 volts which is the standard for calculation of the series resistor mentioned and other analogical components. This equipments works well even with voltage fluctuation of 20 volts. But when NEPA fluctuate energy 80 volts below, any measurements done is absolute garbage. Any medical treatment based on this erroneous measurement is far from being appropriate.

Another equipment for analysis is the electrocardiogram and electrocardiograph.  Electrodes are distributed over the body and a signal of certain intensity is injected from a source, reading is made at every electrode. In this case the human body and the electrodes become a circuit of capacitors interconnected thorough the blood that acts as transmission medium for the injected signal usually an impulse propagated through the body. The nature of the signal measured at each electrode give information to the electro medical doctors whose interpretation reveals the nature of the blood that circulates in the body. The electronics in this equipment is eighty percent analogical and thus need a very noble power supply which is impossible with the current power supplied by NEPA. All the measurements based under this condition of power supply are thus inaccurate. Again here I believe that statistics based on these equipments are garbage and erroneous. Mathematicians on this forum can lecture us more on erroneous information and its effect in medications.

I am thus convinced and hereby raise the alarm that our people are dying not of AIDS but mostly on mismedication due to erroneous measurements read from the electro medical instruments. An erroneous reading will make us medicate fever for diarrhea.

I can not accuse Nigerian doctors of malpractices because it is not their will to kill the people, but I raise this alarm that NEPA is forcing our doctors to medicate inaccurately.

I had the opportunity to dismantle a densitometry manufactured in the U.S.A. I followed through the delicacy of the high voltage section where various power transistors are used to stage by stage generate the high voltage where x-rays are generated. There is a stage whose voltage determines the intensity of the x-ray and a collimator is placed between the x-ray source and the human body. A study of the manual states that the output intensity of the collimator must not rise above a specific value because it could provoke death. Tears poured from my eyes, because an analysis showed that during measurement, a peak voltage from NEPA could cause ham and provoke death, which our people may blame on witchcraft. How many sick people may have died after hospital treatment? My sister in-law died at child bearing in the University Hospital Abraka and buried there as many others.

If the computer tomographic machine like the one that I was scanned with few days ago is supplied with energy from NEPA during use, the situation of the health of the patient cannot be guaranteed.

I was invited to a Medical Laboratory last week, to see a cold room where medical drugs are kept. The Argentine Government had threatened to close down the laboratory, if alarms are not installed into the cold room to warn of high temperature or power failure. If my quotation is accepted, I may have to manufacture an electronic instrument that will measure the temperature in the cold room and also monitor the line voltage such that when the temperature is high of power interruption, the equipment will dial twenty phone numbers and leaving voice messages of the alarm. A power failure of ten minutes affect the temperature in the cold room that endangers the reliability of the medical drug, nevertheless, NEPA takes lights for days and weeks, and inappropriate drugs are applied to Nigerians in the hospital, and when they do not work, we blame death on AIDS and medical drug companies from England and the U.S.A. are experimenting their drugs on Nigerian under the nose of our so-called Professors of Medicine when in their home countries they dare not test such drugs on human beings. Nigerian leaders out of care freeness and carelessness are allowing our populations to be exterminated.  A polio test killed so many people in the North, yet our professors of Medicines give pass marks of drugs because they were manufactures by the white man. Nigerians have become the greatest enemy of Nigeria . I am ready to die for Nigeria if Nigeria assures me that it will live thence for ever.

Nigerians should stop grandiloquent project, we must sit down to plan well for our country. Our people should become humble by stopping quotation of malicious Western societies over Africa . We must face up with our problems and look for solutions to all our problems. We just cannot have a good health services based on the current electrical infrastructure in this electronic age.

I appealed to the Federal Minister of health and the corresponding commissioners of Health to get in touch with me on africanprojects@oviri.com.ar, which can also be found on my web site www.oviri.com.ar . I offer Nigeria a simple packet of basic infrastructure for every Public Medical Centre in Nigeria to provide permanent running water and electricity for the emergency units including the cold rooms for medical drugs. My packet can first be tested at Sapele general hospital after which it can be replicated throughout the country.

The packet will contain independent electric generation plant, water pump for one hundred thousand liters per day and solar hot water systems for critical areas like maternity wards. I will fist need to visit the hospital to draw out the emergency supply line and in two months the hospital will rise to the level of the first world in reliable electricity.

I will distribute some reactors in some surrounding villages of Oviri-Okpe, Amukpe, Okirigwen, Mosoga where the villagers will be asked to produce palm oil, the Ijaws will be asked to produce Ogogoro and palm wine, and some tons of soda soap will be imported from Yoruba villages. With Palm oil, Ogogoro, Palm wine and soda soap, I will produce the fuel for the generation throughout the year for the hospital.

My packet form part of The Oviri Project which is a solution for Nigeria . If the Ministers can assure me of implementation of such projects, Nigeria will have the technology to assemble all those generators and reactors.

Honourable Minister and Commissioners, I wait to hear from you. I want to contribute to the growth of Nigeria and do hope you allow me.

With the way NEPA operates today in Nigeria, AIDS is probably not the greatest threat to Nigeria, but rather the greatest threat is the erroneous medical diagnostics based on readings from Electro-medical equipments that operate under inappropriate electricity supply.

Let us stop publishing erroneous statistics, let us stop AIDS drug test on Nigerian by British and other foreign drug companies that have turned our people into guinea pigs. Let us solve our problems. I offer simple and applied electrification for determinate sectors of the country.

Engr. Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe

oghoerore@oviri.com.ar