Professor Folashade Ogunshola of University of Lagos, has said that not few diseases are contracted through kitchens.
Ogunshola who is the Deputy Vice Chancellor Development Services, UNILAG, made this claim at the Infectious Diseases Summit held recently in Lagos where she was one of the speakers. Others speakers were, Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases expert, Dr. Yoav Golan, and the Convener of the event, the Chief Executive Officer, Global Infectious Diseases Initiative, Dr. Folarin Olubowale.
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In her update on Tropical Infectious Disease like Ebola, Ogunsola, blamed Nigerians for the cause of infectious diseases saying most people did not take hygiene seriously.
According to her, “The problems we have today are due to hygiene. People don’t take good water and urinate and defecate everywhere.
“Our houses are unwashed and unkempt. A lot of the diseases we have can be directly link to our house most especially kitchen, they are not secured.”
In his own contribution, Dr. Golan, who is also a clinical research fellow at the Tufts medical Centre, Boston, said antibiotic was being abused in most countries.
He explained that medical doctors over-prescribed the drugs to patients, saying that the side effects of taking antibiotic surpassed its health benefits.
His word,” if patients are aware that antibiotics can harm them more than help them, if they have a growing infection they would not ask the doctor to giving them antibiotic.”
