Bedsore

Written : M. Arif Rahimi

 

Some patients in Afghanistan have to be in beds for a long time. Some of them complain from bedsore.

What are the main problems of bedsore? In order to find the answer to this question, the writer/producer has talked to some people in a hospital in Kabul city.

Najiba Ahmadi says: more than five years passed that my husband is sick and he is in bed. He suffers more when his bedsore produces pus and bleeding.

Abdul Haq Rahimi, a physician in one of the hospitals in Kabul city says:

Most of the patients are suffering from itching of bedsore, sores become red, blisters could be seen on the sore, they could be changed into wounds, they have pain and might destroy brain and blood tissues which could be the cause of death.

Causes of Bedsore:

bedsore is seen more in patients who suffer from broken spinal cord, broken leg, chronic bladder diseases and so on, and spend more than a month in a bed.

 How to cure bedsore?

Gulalai, a resident of Helamand province, who has come to the hospital with her aunt, says:

My aunt has bedsore, she had surgery operation, I help her to move from side to side; let her to have sun rays; change her clothes; use powder on her sore and pay attention to her cleanliness.

Physicians advise the following five stages to the families of bedsore patients:

1: They should care the patient. 2: They should move the patient from side to side 4-5 times daily.  3: Attention should be paid to the cleanliness of his bed and clothes. 4. A mattress should be filled from millet or clover because it divides the pressure. 5: massage and vegetables soup are very useful for such patients.