Also speaking with Healthwise, a Clinical Psychologist at the Department of Psychiatry, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Dr Juliet Ottoh, said that patients, especially those with chronic medical conditions, without the means to foot their medical bills lived in anxiety.
She added that such a state of worry and uncertainty would impact the healing and recovery of such individuals, leading to complications and the co-morbidity of chronic medical health conditions.
This, the clinical psychologist said, further causes “more expense on them because they will now need some extra medications, treatment and consultation and this would hamper their progress.
“Rather than concentrating on the physical health condition alone, they now have co-morbidity; having a physical health condition and a psychological health condition.”
She urged Nigerians to promptly address health conditions before they degenerated into multiple health conditions.
The clinical psychologist advised individuals who have genuinely exhausted familial, friends and other legitimate ways of raising funds not to be ashamed to seek help.
“The right path is to ask. Take away the stigma, because all of those times you’re trying to delay, things are getting complicated and could degenerate to the point where it becomes a life-threatening illness,” Ottoh
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