Diary

Postcard From The Community

I’m always sharing all the “fun moments”, Fashion shows and what-not but this post is a bit different. I’m sharing another aspect of my life – The medical student aspect.

Most of you already know that i am a medical student (i mean its written right there in my bio.lol) 
I attend college of medicine, university of Lagos (Nigeria), i’m in 500level and i just finished “a community health programme” ( writing the exam next week). Like the name depicts, part of the programme involves us going into the community and getting involved. Taking all the theory aspects we learned in class into the community and putting it to test.
So, we got shared into groups and headed out into different communities in Lagos. My group went to the shomolu Local government area and we had to do a community diagnosis. Basically conduct a survey of the Local government to identify their health needs/Problems and we did this by sharing specific questionnaires.
We also had to put together a health education for the people in the community and also organize a small “health post” : Routine check up for them
Here are just some pictures from the whole experience:
Random boy on the street
Some of my group members
And thats me 
At the health post on the final day
Registration point at the health post
Some of my group members giving a health talk to the community members
Still on health talk/education
Finally after the whole thing
That is the urban part (because Lagos is urban) of the community programme and then we headed to Ogun state for the rural part. I already wrote on that earlier and you can read it here
The arrival at Ogun state
Arrival still
The front of our Cafeteria. Haha thats shaenk right there
Iyare and Kenny preparing to go play football
Football!
In the community
Thats me and John. lool

I’m happy i’ll be done with comm health real soon, its been an eyeopener on our really pathetic health system  and high level of illiteracy but its also been really tedious as well. Although at some point i started considering going into”community health” but for now i dunno. lets see how it goes

Cassandra Ikegbune
xoxo

Author: Cassie Daves

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  • Hello Cassandra! I'm a Public Health student and this is exactly what my major entails. Going into the community to help out with their needs. I find it very interesting and i think you should really consider venturing into in when you're done with med school. Like you've mentioned, i think what Nigeria really needs is Public Health i.e prevention. We lack a lot of education when it comes to our basic health not to even mention the complicated health issues that some of us might develop down the lane. We really need people to educate our citizens more

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