Nigeria Cancer Standards

Now that you have seen the high standards that the US presents, it is important to look at the standards Nigeria has when dealing with breast cancer. Nigerian health care systems are extremely under educated, which are a major reason why Nigeria is so far behind the US in standards. In 2000, there was a study conducted on nurses that worked with breast cancer patients in general hospitals in Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to discover how educated the nurses were. The study revealed some frightening news, of the 204 nurses that participated in the study; only 60-75% of the nurses knew the true symptoms of breast cancer. Some other alarming information is that most nurses did not know how dangerous breast cancer is for women. Only 47.5 …show more content…
Another disturbing thought is that if nurses don’t know that they’re supposed to go to a doctor if they develop abnormalities, then I cannot imagine how low the number must be in regular citizens who don’t have the same knowledge the nurses. Therefore, the nurse’s knowledge of disease, treatments, and precautions are lacking due to being under-educated and are hurting the country.
Another factor in the reason why Nigeria standards are so disappointing are that Nigerian awareness among citizens is extremely low which is scary due to how dangerous breast cancer. Curb Cancer Nigeria is individuals who go around the country and find out basic knowledge about different types of cancer. They went around to random females on the street and asked them common questions about breast cancer. This gave me real peoples opinions from Nigeria even though I am how many thousands of miles away. One detail I learned from this video was that it is necessary to go to a medical facility as soon as possible due to minimal breast cancer treatments available and high death rates in Nigeria (Curb Cancer Nigeria). The individuals that do not go to a medical facility right away have their chances of