I think an equally serious issue is that so many Doctors prescribe drugs when they’re not required. I remember my friend’s little brother was knocked over by a car and he broke his leg. He was prescribed about 6 different sorts of drugs, because the pharmacists make profits from this. So we bought them at the hospital pharmacy. The Drs always want you to go and buy the drugs and take them to the Dr. But I broke my foot in the UK and it was very swollen and blue, but i didn’t have any drugs.

Then also there mis-diagnosis. So many people are diagnosed with malaria when they don’t have it. I remember a friend came out to Ghana, she got sick the moment she landed (it was the anti-malarials making her sick) but the hospital diagnosed and treated her for malaria. A fever, headache and diarhea is treated as malaria, before blood tests are undertaken. This surely must mean the anti-malarial drugs are being overused and thus the mosquitoes become resistant more easily.

It’s a shame Bright can’t get to the UK this time to share his innovations, but I wish him the best and hope he can get over soon.