Mashood Lawal

Country: Nigeria

Mashood had a stent placed in his urinary tract because of a kidney stone in 2020. After he went for the removal of the stent 3 months later, he had fever. He was then misdiagnosed with malaria and typhoid, and had to take medicines for those conditions.

Later, it was rightly diagnosed that his symptoms were due to a drug resistant urinary infection. While battling with this, he contracted Covid-19 infection  and he was admitted to the hospital, where he received several courses of expensive injectable antibiotics. His infection persisted even after he  survived Covid-19 and was discharged from the hospital, and finally got resolved due to a course of a Reserve antibiotic.

In his words, the whole experience was terrifying. Mashood retired as the Director Food and Drug Services of Nigeria, and now consults for several international organizations