💉 Primary Care Physician👩🏽⚕️ 🎶Soprano singer 🧶Crochet enthusiast 🏃🏿♀️Physical and mental fitness promoter. YouTuber: Health education in Igbo & English
Prostate Enlargement in Igbo language via
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Prostate Enlargement in Igbo Language.
Prostate Enlargement is a condition that can affect your ability to urinate.
In this video in Igbo language;
I’ve define what the prostate is.
In 1969, my Grandfather Chief Sir Dr. John Odocha KSJ, pHD , FCA, Akajiudo 1 of Ife-Ezinihitte Mbaise, returned from Ireland set up the oldest Accounting Firm in Aba (old Imo state). I spent many a weekend doing my mathematics assignments in his office when my Dad worried that
After my consultancy, my patient says ‘I’m so happy to meet a Nigerian Doctor', and I smile with pride.
He tells me he was in Gboko, now Benue state in 1964 as a missionary teacher 👩🏫, he then transferred to Sokoto in 1967, but had to flee due to the Biafran war...
#Doctor
Thank you Lord for the Houses we live in. Pic 1: Grandpa and Grandma ODOCHA, built this country home in Ife-Ezinihitte, Mbaise, Imo state, Nigeria. This was after the civil war, and named it ‘Ulo Obi di aso Jesu’. His vast compound had been shelter for fleeing Igbos returning to
The flex is being friends till today. Medical students in 2009, now Consultant anaesthetist to my right (Dr. Nnaemeka), Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon(Dr. Suskin) to my left. I the GP in the center to refer. Memories of College of medicine University of Nigeria 🇳🇬
@officialunth
Arrived UK for PLAB+ marriage(2012)
Started as a minimum wage earner, plus teaching music, plaiting hair- to get em bills paid, passed PLAB same year. NHS work 2013. GP training 2014-2017MRCGP. Public Governor 2022. I thank God that did that!
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Lions 🦁 and Lionesses ,
Lovers of University of Nigeria 🇳🇬, Nsukka (UNN), and her campuses.
It’s our 60th Founder’s Day...
A call to listen again to our school anthem and be inspired.
(Nigerian civil war of 1967-1970)
He adds ‘Igbos are a formidable people never to be crushed’
When I tell him that I am Igbo, he salutes, bows... from the waist. I’m an Mbaise-Igbo-Nigerian doctor.
Nwa Mbaise representing since time immemorial.
#sopranodoctor
#culture
#identity
#NewProfilePic
Ada Nna ya- First Daughter of Ohamadike Ndi Ife- Ezinihitte. MBBS, MRCGP, Public Governor Derby City West, Founder Afromedicsmentor, Health educator, Sopranodoctor, Expert in Njakiri as an Ada Mbaise and Nwa Aba, lover of culture, of roots, of identity, of legacy.
2004, 1st year UNN, my neck was longer than the 6 years of med school. Okpa Nsukka from Bello hall, saves lives, keeps you satiated for 8hrs. As okpaZEPAM, you sleep in lectures, and relax in the exam hall Now I’m struggling to fit into my scrubs
#ThrowbackThursday
#medschool
I wouldn’t understand his own teaching.
My Grandpa had the remedy with peppermint, Trebbor luckies, and digestive biscuits. For that, I always understood my Grandpa 😜. He and my Dad built me to go for many Maths competitions in primary and secondary school, including Cowbell,
filling my bag with fresh guava plucked from the trees, and wanting more folksongs.
Fig 4: In the family mausoleum my Paternal Grandparents rest. I’ll never forget them neither will I stop extolling them as imperfectly beautiful as they were.
#sopranodoctor
da
#mbaisegirl
MAN (Mathematics Association of Nigeria) , STAN (science teachers association of Nigeria) and JETS (Junior Engineering Electricians and Scientists)
This is me in the present standing before the office that made a dynasty, From Chief John Odocha, to Chief James Odocha,
to.. another young Accountant in the family waiting in the wings.
My duty is to offer Medicare and health education to my family and the 50,000 youth daily debating over who is OBIdient vs BATified. I wonder is it for beans, is it for eba, is it for eba and garri?
As for the view.. it is different from what my Grandfather (seated in the middle and cross legged) would have seen in post colonial Aba in 1969. The view is more like Balablu as a market is now opposite… the world famous Umungasi market where you can buy a damn roasted corn 🌽
As it was in 2004…. Somewhere in the matric grounds of Freedom square of University of Nigeria Nsukka… an Ewu-JAMBito was addressing a solo audience— Ala Owerri photographer. I was sha telling him how JAMB denied me entry to medical school for 2 years. 2 whole years of UNIHOME!
Arrived UK for PLAB+ marriage(2012)
Started as a minimum wage earner, plus teaching music, plaiting hair- to get em bills paid, passed PLAB same year. NHS work 2013. GP training 2014-2017MRCGP. Public Governor 2022. I thank God that did that!
Full story
middle of the Biafran war. Thank you letters from Shell, Unilever, Mercedes, UAC, Defunct NRC and SDP political parties. How do I swim through this ocean of dust and history. Lemme sleep first, my Daddy wouldn’t want me to have further respiratory distress triggered by dust.
This years medical outreach is cancelled those 5 checkpoints between Enugu and Aba where we forced to dismount from bus and walk across the checkpoint, and to the soldier who seized my phone for answering a call IN MY LAND THREATENING TO SHOOT… I cried in shame and fear.
In 1969, my Grandfather Chief Sir Dr. John Odocha KSJ, pHD , FCA, Akajiudo 1 of Ife-Ezinihitte Mbaise, returned from Ireland set up the oldest Accounting Firm in Aba (old Imo state). I spent many a weekend doing my mathematics assignments in his office when my Dad worried that
Off to plan a town hall meeting with my constituents… at the pub. It will be different from balablu, with compromise. I’ll drink the cider and eat fish n chips, while they’ll eat my fried plantain and palmwine from African shop. You’ve got a Nigerian governor learn my culture 👩🏽⚕️
Straight to work on my Grandpa’s library. Letters to his kids, love letters to Grandma. School fees receipts for the 9 foreign universities his kids went to, political meetings of the kingmakers of old Imo state, building plans, rejection letters to foreign award givers in the
Saw an Elderly white haired Gentleman at Aba sports club yesterday. My Dad took me to greet the ‘Archival Doc’ the well known Dr. Okoye, surgeon per excellence of Aba , Umuahia and most parts of Nigeria. He was so excited on hearing my Dad introduce me as a doctor. When he heard
Mbaise. Red Cross set up a base here and caritas NGO through my Grandpa distributed provisions including powdered egg, stockfish . ‘hunger was weaponised’ costing lives of more than a million Igbo babies.I pray a rosary for them when I can .
Pic 2: My Dad and Mum, built theirs
Some Igbo Catholic songs are deeper than prayers… maybe supplications, a different level of communing and pleading with our God to come dwell in our hearts. Blessed new week everyone ‘Ronye’m n’obi DINWENU’ Amen 🙏
#sopranodoctor
#catholic
#sunday
#prayer
#supplication
#igbo
Creating awareness about Defibrillators in public spaces, in
#Igbo
, introduction to advanced life support (ALS). Defibrillators save lives, if used properly. We can make a difference.
#Doctors
#MedTwitter
#defibrillators
#Cardiology
full video here:
and my joy is there is so much space for the grandkids we will give them for acculturation and the medical students who’ll be coming for village postings.
Pic 3: Still enough space to play with our caretakers children who wish to be doctors, they wore me out today 😁. They kept
@Sir_Fin
@osheguy
They have a lot of history to share, more appreciation than disdain. I often wonder why colonial history is not taught in mainstream schools in the UK,,it explains a lot.,Oh well I might as well ask why the History of the Biafran war is glossed over in Nigerian schools...
@gechife
@kenterprenuer
@ChifeDr
Fig 1: First date December 2007, somewhere in the choirstands of St. Mulumba’s Parish, UNEC, I was in 4th year Medical school.
Fig 2: December 2019
@rcgp
building, London Euston at my graduation to the Royal College Of General Practitioners. I’m still in Robes...
#sopranodoctor
Grandpa got his PhD in 1984 when my Dede was born. He wrote a letter to my Dad about it, telling him to run the office while he was in Philadelphia studying. He always ended his letters in his cursive writing with ‘with paternal blessings’. If my Grandfather did it, I’m on it!
Camera ready for my 3rd keynote speech in 1month. To all my true friends, lovers, who CELEBRATE AND APPRECIATE me through thick and thin. This success is ours. We keep moving till the last respiratory rate, the last heartbeat 💓, till the last drop in degree centigrade
This is me… in heaven…. St. Mulumba’s Choir UNEC, a disciple (an aturu) of the great Urchman.
#sopranodoctor
believes to sing 🎶 is to pray twice. And doing so in Igbo is to invite our lineage past and present to join in .
#choir
#igbo
#churchmusic
#Catholic
@DominicNonso96
A number of my family fought and died in the war. Our compound in Mbaise was a Red Cross camp for the refugees, my Grandpa was coordinating the distribution of caritas provisions during the war… so much history, unresolved, some too painful to revisit…
My brother PJosh came around. His passion for diabetes Education is second to none. A true son of Ngwa land who set up his foundation here in Aba, as we his people deserve the best health education for prevention,
which your doctor uses to grade your condition.
- The examinations to be done in clinic, with emphasis on the Digital Rectal Examination (DRE), highlighting the patients right to confidentiality, privacy, and a chaperone if they wish.
- Red flags for suspected prostate cancer.
Eastern Nigeria explored, Southern Nigeria- the beautiful Mangrove swamps and Creeks done ✅. Now Northbound to see the Mambila Plateau, the face of the Zuma rock 🪨, to Al the shiroro dam of Niger state abi na Kainji dam why we still don’t have constant electricity..,
Arrived UK for PLAB+ marriage(2012)
Started as a minimum wage earner, plus teaching music, plaiting hair- to get em bills paid, passed PLAB same year. NHS work 2013. GP training 2014-2017MRCGP. Public Governor 2022. I thank God that did that!
Full story
I’ve described the anatomy of the prostate with pictures.
- I’ve described the signs and symptoms of an enlarged prostate.
- I’ve explained causes of an enlarged prostate.
- The questions contained in an IPSS (International Prostate Symptom Score)
In 2010 during my induction into the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria 🇳🇬 (MDCN), my Daddy accompanied by a trailer load of relatives from Aba and Owerri descended on UNEC.
Pride filled their hearts as their daughter had bagged her MBBS, and qualified as a Doctor 👩🏽⚕️.
It is Friday!
Let the Aba baby girls like me… Breef. This Town of Sweat 😓 and Glory deserves her flowers 💐! My Aba story an original Nigerian Television Authority documentary. Aba, the economic hub, the eternal city.
#NwaAba
#sopranodoctor
SopranoDoctor goes clubbing tonight in one of the exclusive spots in Aba. I deserve. I’ve worked hard. Full vlog drops next Friday titled ‘GRWM: discussion with a forever Daddy and Mummy’s girl who prays that the Bank of mum and Dad never runs dry. Amen.
As we celebrate his Excellency Sir
@peterobigregory
on his birthday, I went into high level Discussions with my Geriatrician friend (specialist doctor for older adults >65) around the state of the Nation Nigeria 🇳🇬 and the upheavals in the various ethnic regions.
Yes my Mondays
Throwback to 2009 in surgery theatre during M2/S2 posting
@officialunth
. ‘Hunger don finish your baby ooooo Aguru! If you laugh in a way that doesn’t please God, I block you same way! Slide 2: shows it pays to do gragra and be mgbotic (hardworking)
#medicalstudent
#MedTwitter
Happy Sunday from the Eze-Ochu Choir. We are going to bring down the walls of all our problems with music 🎶. Jus dey play. Soprano, Alto, Tenor well represent. Na Baritone remain.. Marshall?
#choir
#family
#village
Bright Chimezie clocks 63 today.
Bright Chimezie is a renowned Igbo highlife musician and one of the best ever. The "Ube Nwanne, Because Of English, African Style and Alabeke" crooner hails from Umuahia, Abia state.
Let's Retweet to celebrate him!
In memory of the Legend Sir. Victor Efosa Uwaifo (MON) who gave us Guitar 🎸 Boy. He was a Nigerian musician who gave us the award winning ’Joromi’ and his other styles of Akwete music’. A polymath—- sculptor, music instrument inventor, lecturer, writer,
#EndSarsNow
... because the lives of every Nigerian is precious.
#EndSARS
...because the youths are the life blood and future of Nigeria.
#EndSarsProtests
are needed because the youth mortality and incidence of PTSD, panic attacks, anxiety are on the rise.
#EndSARS
for serenity.
Found my Mum’s 1987 diary. Full of good things. When 1 NAIRA was EQUAL to 1 POUND. She was studying in london at the time. She was a mum of 2, far younger than myself. She taught me to be a diarist, but my diary 📔 is full of people who I need to cut off. Lord epp me to forgive.
In 1969, my Grandfather Chief Sir Dr. John Odocha KSJ, pHD , FCA, Akajiudo 1 of Ife-Ezinihitte Mbaise, returned from Ireland set up the oldest Accounting Firm in Aba (old Imo state). I spent many a weekend doing my mathematics assignments in his office when my Dad worried that
@NnaemekaIke2
SO MANY STORIES exist. I know family friends who were academics. As kids we would meet up at rotary club Aba, Aba sports club, or Oguta lake. But the economic migration of the 90’s saw them drift away from Igboland, across river Niger, then abroad, family stories/ structures lost
I don enter ‘Schudio’ las las… with A rap for the TIRED… all the Time (TATT)
Physical causes include;Low levels of vitamin D, Iron, Folic Acid, B12, blood sugars, renal/heart extreme cases, especially with rapid weight loss and night sweats,
Aba is the city where in the same Sunday Mass, after hearing an Igbo Song like the one below. Hear a Latin one too like Salve Regina by St. Cecilia’s Choir. As such, Aba is international.
The city of Aba has the best Choir- St. Cecilia Choir. It was an honour to reunite after 12 years. All the babies of fellow choiristers who I used to sing lullabies to sleep, are now in secondary school.
#music
#CatholicTwitter
#Growth
#choir
As part of My Daddy-Daughter Date and Tour of Old- Aba, we stepped back in time into the Aba sports ⚽️ club which was founded in 1926. A club which has served for relaxation, youth interactions. It has a GREAT HALL … a Hall that my parents had their wedding reception in 1984.
That video about fibroids preached from a pulpit by a certain pastor… you are free to eavesdrop on the phone all between Barr. Chiamaka and I. My former Ibiam roommate, who is a learned colleague o… but beloved her fibroids are due to her UNEC boyfriends.
@ValentineKelec9
We are grateful for eba, for beans, for dodo and Agbado… together would make a balanced meal and prevent protein-energy malnutrition 😜
In the spirit of
#ThrowbackThursday
please, Biko, Ejoor , sanu, vote for me and our sofa 🛋️ to win the ultimate throwback challenge.
We’ve been winning 🥇 from the late 1980’s we can’t stop now.
With thank and kindest regards,
#sopranodoctor
, her Daddy and Mummy.
#MedTwitter
#sicklecellawareness
video in Igbo language. Full video on
@youtube
.
I’ve explained;
📣 what is sickle cell disease.
📣 The purpose of a red blood cell.
📣 The importance of genotype testing, before marriage.
📣 Signs and symptoms of sickle cell disease.
*Youtube Video Alert*
As part of our discussions on women’s health let’s talk about menstruation in simple terms using Igbo language a popular language in Nigeria, and parts of west Africa.
:1) Gini bu Nso Nwanyi? Interpretation- What is MENstruation?2) Kedu ka nso nwanyi si a
We are still in the Month of August when August meetings are held in all parts of Igboland in Eastern Nigeria.
As part of our discussions on women’s health let’s talk about menstruation in simple terms using pidgin English a popular language in Nigeria,
13 years later, I reunited with my friend Dr. Samuel Suskin Uzodimma
@ChudiSuskin
a doyen of Orthopaedics. Odogwu Anya mmemme of orthopaedics with the softest heart ❤️
#medicalschool
A patient who is a Dairy 🥛 Farmer 👩🌾 Dared me to approach cows. He told me I had privileged hands, that had never milked a cow. That I didn’t understand the hardwork that came with farming. For 20 mins of my clinic time he schooled me on the business of farming, that the farmers
Another August meeting to share about women’s health. Be it in Mbaise or on the top of Milliken Hill, we gather dey. When my Dad was blessing me to go find my Husbandus during my Igba Nkwu, he said to me ‘Go and be a light 💡 in your second home. He said this to while
In thanksgiving, love, humility and honour on behalf of the Odocha 4 we say thank you for this invitation. I will make you , my parents and my Heavenly Father proud. May the secondary school students be blessed and inspired.
#sopranodoctor
What is it with Aba and markets? Markets are ubiquitous, dotting every nook and cranny. It is said that after the civil war, the multinational industries left to the other side of the river Niger. Aba decided to replace these gaping holes with markets, where her industrious
‘Take me Deeper in Love with you Jesus’
Happy birthday Sir. Jude Nnam (The Ancestor). We should have a concert celebrating his Musical legacy. What a blessing to our world.
Positive Networking for me, is currency.
We gain much from being in the same room with inspirational women with life changing stories to tell.
I knew of this Black History Month themed event, of the ‘Women of Faith Network’ through our Councillor in Derby,
#BlackHistoryMonth
#throwbackthursday
live and direct ❤️.
This Holiday brought me back to my roots; to the experiences that shaped me.
… to Aba (the eternally -resilient city) to walk my childhood paths, and enjoy my parents as their daughter. Aba gave me almost everything and everyone I know.
Knowing the challenges posed by language barriers, I’ve done a video on
#cervicalsmear
in Igbo language. Sharing knowledge in our own languages is vital. This aids understanding, compliance and shared care between patient and physician.
#cervicalcancer
We still have Awolowo street and Ibadan street in Aba, the historic significance of these areas will be discussed in a documentary. Aba is home to all…
What is it with Aba and markets? Markets are ubiquitous, dotting every nook and cranny. It is said that after the civil war, the multinational industries left to the other side of the river Niger. Aba decided to replace these gaping holes with markets, where her industrious
The joy I felt on my final MBBS release. Kai I want that happiness again…
MBBS+MRCGP, 13 years later we are enjoying the moment. Salute to my Chiefs Prof. Dr.Mrs. Njeze of Radiology and Prof. Dr. Mrs. Nwagha of haematology both in UNTH. Video
#MedTwitter
Thank you FECAMDS UNEC
@fecamds_unec
for this honour to speak to us all. Hopefully I’ll do justice to the topic of the day as we go down memory lane in sharing my experiences.
Interestingly enough, I stood in that same hall 13 years ago to listen to those who had gone before,
Finally I got a place of my own after two months plus sleeping in hotels ( Premier inn, Travel lodge , Aston Court) all in Derby.
My Colleagues house in Nottingham,
2 different Air BnB, then in a caravan …
Homelessness can happen to anyone in this Abroad,
#sopranodoctor
#Trials
11 years a doctor 👩🏽⚕️ MBBS
4 years plus a GP.
Celebrating myself and all the times I made myself happy in this journey.
I’ll teach my children and my mentors on
@LearnMentor
to prioritise self love, happiness, and self affirmation. The system will adjust.
#sopranodoctor
Thanks
@Coal_City
for celebrating me. My aim is to inspire the next child, the next adult to believe in the validity of their dreams.
Thanks
@legitngnews
for highlighting my story. I’m honoured.
Nigeria 🇳🇬 to the world. Ala Igbo g’adi .
I'm in far away Obodo Eliza... but my Mother is over the River Niger... and there lies my heart.
The strings of 'Mass Return' pull at my heart. The only Home I know. How the Colonialists, missionaries, explorers navigated this river to access the hinterlands.
#Christmas2021