Diseases, such as cancer, kidney failure,
and diabetes, do not start in a day. The symptoms must have been
manifesting one way or the other, but many that have been afflicted by
these conditions ignored or dismissed them for various reasons – usually
negligence.
In some cases, especially for the
religious, life-threatening diseases only strike the unfaithful or those
who have allowed the devil to interfere. Even when the signs have
generated to symptoms, they would rather choose to live in denial or
simply continue to ‘reject’ the issues.
Doctors state that 95 per cent of
diseases claiming people’s lives daily in thousands could be prevented
if people took their health and some signs they give seriously by going
to a physician.
They stress that not every sickness can
be ‘rejected’ and hypertension, stroke and heart attack are not a reward
for drinking too much, smoking or other vices that many are quick to
blame for serious life-threatening diseases.
The Chief Medical Director, Active
Hospitals, Lekki, Lagos State , Dr. Odun Johnson, says the joy of any
doctor is a patient that comes on time, adding that by doing so, the
life of that individual who would have died of kidney failure if he
ignored the blood in his urine is saved.
