More patients with diabetes going into comma on the rise
By Olushola Okewole
More patients with diabetes are going into comma, the Consultant General Surgeon, Medibam Medical Centre, Ejigbo, Dr. Bankole Adebambo, has warned.
Reviewing his experience in the last nine months, he noted that diabetes comma,strokes, tetanus infection and malaria were the most treated diseases common to the patients.
Dr. Adebambo explained that diabetes comma occurred not because the patients were not aware of their diabetic status but as a result of lack of compliance to the medication prescribed by physicians.
He explained that diabetes cannot be cured for now but can only be managed by taking the prescribed drugs regularly, warning that if the patient refuses to take the drugs, the blood sugar would increase in the person which eventually leads to unconsciousness.
The disease, according to him, is peculiar to both old and young people, saying the one in the young ones is classed as Type One while it is seen as heredity in the old people if it could be traced to someone in the family.
He noted that it could also be contacted through low birth rate in a child, premature birth and obesity.
He explained that people could manage it through regular exercise, limit in refined sugar consumption rate, advising them to visit hospital regularly and to take more of fruits and vegetables.
Speaking on why he chose to locate the hospital in Ejigbo, the surgeon said: “I believe we can deliver to our people what is obtainable medically in the developed nations. I discovered people are not properly served health wise, poor management has caused a lot of issues to many people.
“When I came around, I saw that hospitals with world class facilities were scarce. My passion for the people and the fact that people here deserve world class medical attention and the need to give back to the country where I was trained in a government owned institution where we didn’t need to pay much when compared with others prompted me to establish the hospital here in Ejigbo.
“So, the need to serve the people of Ejigbo and beyond and to have an ultra modern hospital with professionals to give the people first class treatment made me establish the hospital in this community.”
The Medibam hospital, which started operations in Ejigbo on January 1, 2019 with its first surgery on January 2, 2019, has carried out over 100 surgeries according to Adebambo.
The hospital, which was said to have larger percentage of patients from outside Ejigbo at inception, now has its larger number of patients from Ejigbo community.
