Angela Onwuzoo Child health specialists have given reasons why only trained and qualified health workers should be allowed to administer injections, citing the potential health risk associated with injections given to babies by quacks. According to them, injections should not just be given in any part of the buttocks, warning that injecting somebody on the wrong side of the buttocks, could cause irreversible damage to the nerves. This might make walking very difficult for those affected for life, they warn.
Speaking in an interview with PUNCH Healthwise, one of the experts, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Dr Beatrice Ezenwa, stated that there are particular areas for giving an injection in the buttocks in both adults and children. Ezenwa, a consultant neonatologist/paediatrician at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, warned that untrained health workers and auxiliary nurses have no business administering injections. The paediatrician explained, “There are anatomical places where you can give an injection which you learn when you are in school.
“But quacks because they see people give injections in the buttocks, they feel that any part of the buttocks can be given injections and they cause problems. “When you are to give injections, there are particular places you can give them. “There are particular areas for giving an injection.
” Ezenwa noted that untrained health workers and auxiliary nur.