By Psalmuel Adekunle
Alcoholism is a common trend amongst Nigerian students generally. Has they take it as part of their living Phenomenon. Alcohol is a strong drink meant for adult and strictly for people over 18. Most students are intimidated by peer 3 to go alcoholism and once entangled in the web fund, it hard to free them from its sticky web net.
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What is wrong with you? He was asked “I don’t know........... I am having headache, my head feel like breaking” was the reply of Arowolo Adeyemi a student of ND1a have you gone to the clinic? “He was asked again” (hissed) I haven’t....... I don’t even have any medical card. .......... Don’t worry, let me rest small....... I will have the strength to go later”
Health is Wealth it is rightly said but students and young people fail to believe. Although it’s a fact that, youths have the least expectancy of death amidst all other age groups in human development but it’s also a known fact that a person start to degrade ****** right from the age of 40.
Student like Adeyemi pays N1700 for health insurance and N3000 for Primary Health care yearly in the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. This was a move the institution made to improve and encourage the health stability of student in the school environment.
With an interview with NIJ’s medical officer mrs Omotosho We asked of the major health challenges of her patience, she said “we have cases like PID (pelvic inflammatory disease) Malaria, Typhoid, TID’s and some others.” she added that “NIJ has put in place medical screening for new student which entails **** X-ray Analyse genotype and the blood group so we will know who we are dealing with”
Most students like Oyebanji Omotayo complains of the clinic always closed (though she may be satirical) and said the “clinic opens late and closes early. Omotayo a student of ND2 said that there was a time a girl fainted in our class we took her to the clinic only to discover the door was padlocked we just have to pour water on the person to keep her from convulsing”
According to research many student face health challenges in school due to some other vices they may find themselves subjected to.
Alcoholism is a common trend amongst Nigerian students generally. Has they take it as part of their living Phenomenon. Alcohol is a strong drink meant for adult and strictly for people over 18. Most students are intimidated by peer 3 to go alcoholism and once entangled in the web fund, it hard to free them from its sticky web net.
Most student are aware of the health challenges Alcoholism poise as it is dangerous to the liver and may also weaken the immune system and may entertain little disease like malaria and typhoid that could have been eliminated of the immune system were still strong.
Alcohol not only poises a damaging threat to the physical state but it is fast in destabilising the psychological state of the mind. An ND1 student Fabian Emegha was once reported to the social authority for assaulting the nurse during student week celebration. Fabian who confessed to have been under a strong alcoholic influence said he didn’t know what he was doing at that particular point in time. “I didn’t know that it’s very powerful like that oh..... My head was just spinning” began an informal chat with him. Fabian supposedly consumed an alcoholic substance locally called “Monkey Tail” but it’s yet to gain a name internationally.
Vices like alcoholism and adultery not only degrade youth moral value but also stand as a major challenging factor to their health. In a recent Birthday celebration of Jumoke Deborah a student of ND2B, she was said to have (allegedly) facilitated for the purchase of whiskey to celebrate her birthday in her class. Though on that faithful day her classmates were found drinking and sharing cups of whiskeys, isikalu Moses jokingly comparing girls from the two classes said “see the girls of that class drinking whiskey………..in this class, our girls can’t even boast of drinking a cup” there was an uproar to that as girls present then defiantly asked him to go and bring it.
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I believe decadence is a state of voidness, where students are carried away by worldly things by not paying attention to morality” said Mariam Thawban the female president of NIJ’s Muslim Student Society of Nigeria – MSSN. She believes students who drink in class are going far from moderation and doing it in excess. She added that “it is disheartening to see students like you, after drinking outside the school, they even pour their alcohol inside lacasera bottles and bring it to class to drink” she also confirmed “there was a case of one of my classmates who was high and was assaulting people and went wild to the extent of scaling the school fence.” She further admonishes students to detest from drinking.
When asking the school medical officer on modulations put in place to counter these issues she said “we will soon be having health talks in schools on what to do and what not to do………. On issues like PID’s (pelvic inflammatory disease), having unprotected sex and also knowing HIV status.
Believing when this health talk starts it may go a long way in the campaign to transforming student’s lives and countering their health challenges, going further in curbing social vices among students.
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