A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools
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Due to poor obstetric care and significant home deliveries in Nigeria and most African countries, the incidence of postpartum haemorrhage is escalating. Black water fever a complication of malaria commonly leads to renal failure and circulatory collapse amongst sufferers in sub-Saharan Africa [ 23 ]. This too is not discussed in the foreign textbooks we use for teaching physiology.
Physiology of special senses: River blindness Onchocerciasis is a neglected tropical disease NTD caused by the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. It is transmitted through repeated bites by blackflies of the genus Simulium. Worldwide it is second only to trachoma as an infectious cause of blindness [ 24 ]. This neglected disease was also neglected by these physiology textbooks. Post meningitis and post cerebral malaria complications in the central nervous systems are quite prevalent in Nigeria and should have been properly addressed in our textbooks.
The highest incidence of bacterial meningitis is observed in the sub- Saharan meningitis belt where cyclic epidemics occur at least once per decade, which could result in wide range brain injuries, hippocampal atrophy and disabling neuropsychological deficits [ 25 , 26 ]. In the same vein, cerebral malaria is the most severe neurological complication of infection with Plasmodium falciparum. With over , cases annually, children in sub-Saharan Africa are the most affected.
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Surviving patients have an increased risk of neurological and cognitive deficits, behavioral difficulties and epilepsy; making cerebral malaria a leading cause of childhood neuro-disability in the region [26]. Again these important clinical correlates are absent under neurophysiology in our popular textbooks. The Nigerian government should emulate a country like Singapore, where textbooks are State-approved and authors are compelled to meet State criteria [ 25 ].
There should be a link between theoretical and clinical instructions as well as interdisciplinary and topic-related instructions to provide communities with the necessary doctors [ 27 ].
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Our leaders should both develop and strengthen other intervention programmes for education like the tertiary education trust fund Tetfund in Nigeria. This will help strengthen indigenous research and support local authors to write high quality books that are relevant to the national peculiarities. The Nigerian government should also ensure that the organized private sector set aside a yearly seed fund to support local academics who are committed to writing medical books that fully reflect the relevant health issues.
Strong antipiracy laws should be enforced by government to discourage pirates from illegally profiting from the intellectual properties of prospective authors.
Pirating discourages local authors. Nigerian academics must be more proactive in writing medical books to meet the local content needs. This they can achieve through conscious and deliberate collaborative efforts with major physiology bodies like the African Association of Physiological Sciences AAPS. By so doing the requisite textbooks of high quality in terms of graphics and presentation will be made available for the Nigerian and indeed African medical schools. It is quite obvious that only Africans can set their own research priorities and agenda [ 28 ]. Similarly, only Nigerians can set their own textbook policy agenda.
To achieve a quantum leap in the area of physiology and indeed other medical sciences education, there is an urgent need to make available for our medical students, textbooks, that can help them appreciate the common health issues that they will encounter both in clinical training and as professionals.
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