 Good morning. My name is Jaimua Chachay. You can find me on Joa underscore chachay. This is help on Monday Kindly if you want to talk to us if you want to ask any questions if you have any opinions on what we're going to be Discussing you can do so on our social media platforms The hashtag has to be why in the morning and hashtag help on Monday. Yes, it's a thing now and kari booni Sonnet to the show. Please remember that our channels can be found on y25 for Channel on Facebook on in Twitter. You can find us on Y25 for our channel as well on Instagram You can find us on Y25 for underscore channel and please subscribe to our YouTube channel We'd love for you guys to watch this interview again to get a bit more insight and also to watch many of the other things that we Forced it on our channel on YouTube. So today. We are actually talking to one person that we call dr. Marion mooly Dr. Marion mooly is a Multifaceted lady if I could introduce her She's actually an officer for PCA that stands for Presbyterian Church in East Africa and as well as an officer for How can I say the Kikuyu Hospital? Excuse me, and she's actually a volunteer with St. John ambulance and today's topic actually touches on emergency rooms and Everything of that nature what happens in emergency rooms and why are we youth are ending up there? So so much in the past in actually recent times and we want to find out why they're coming in So we're going to be talking to dr. Moody about that curry busana dr. Moody Thank you very much. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? I'm fine. Thank you for having me on studio I'm glad to be here, and I think I'm happy about the topic. We're going to talk about okay, because it's a topic that really affects the Yes, so let's um We've seen it. We've seen it in the hospital We've seen it as volunteers. Yes as EMT is in ambulances. It's something that is really affecting the youth accidents Emergencies medical emergencies drugs. We have so much that we present with at the A&D At the A&D at the accident and emergency room accident and emergency room just in case somebody didn't know that That's that's that's an interesting job to do But when it comes to when working in the emergency room, you particularly said that you're volunteering there And if you're not volunteering there, where do you spend most of your work hours? Okay, most of my work hours are spent at PCA Kikuyu Hospital Right, I'm a medical officer in turn, but I have also been a volunteer with St. John for 14 years and Of those 14 I have trained first aid and emergency services for 10 So I have been with the emergency in fact for a longer longer time than I have been a doctor, but generally I've seen Most of both worlds, right? Yeah, so if I was to fall over and collapse right now, I'll be in good hands You're sorted all the way Well now speaking of me falling over and you know collapsing God forbid, you know Our youth are going through something and when we're talking outside. I'd like that 30 Excuse me 33 percent of road accidents Affect the youth and that Kenya is actually a red zone in Africa on the continent of Africa when it comes to emergencies and accidents and you corrected me and you said not just in Africa on in the whole world Kenya is a red zone to mean that the the the the frequency of emergency room occurrences are quite high when it comes to Kenyans and that 33 percent of road accidents is is Actually for just the youth when we're seeing the youth recovering the age until people until the age of 35 and below Yes Can I ask that 33 percent when they do tend to come in through the emergency rooms? What and how are they ending up there? Okay, so um actually and this is what will be surprising the 33 percent is Just road traffic accidents and that speaks a lot towards you know What is really affecting the youth in terms of that's that's the highest The number one killer of youth between 15 and 19 if you include 10 to 25 Then it's the number two killer of youth Which means that it is a big deal that we are getting a lot of road traffic accidents But there are also other emergencies that we get we see poisoning both accidental and intentional we see Obstetric emergencies for women. That's quite common in the accident and emergency room Oh emergencies to do with pregnancy like ectopic pregnancies spontaneous abortions, yeah, then we also see Basically work work related accidents because most of the hands-on work your construction Factories is done by youth. So we see a lot of people coming with baby amputations due to machines, you know And all this rotates around safety around being aware of yourself even for pregnancy being aware that you're pregnant Doing early hospital visits early tests. So it's an all-round that what are we doing? Yeah, yes. So how are we keeping ourselves safe? Are we taking care of ourselves? Yeah, so those are some of the causes of accidents of Trauma or of accident and emergency visits for the youth Outside of the 33 percent outside All right. Now if we could go to the 33 percent the road accidents, I could imagine road accidents Sometimes you get hit by another car or sometimes because of speed you can hit another car Or if you're intoxicated and you combine it with speed then that could also cause an accident I don't know if there's a some of the reasons why these road accidents are happening. Yes, and as you mentioned Intoxication, it's a big deal. Yeah, it's a big deal. A lot of our youth are getting intoxicated. Yeah You're drunk you assume You're okay, and I keep telling people I keep telling my friends that It lies the alcohol has this weight it makes you overconfident It lies to you that you're fine. You can do this, you know, yeah, and you end up finding that You lose something you lose some control Sometimes when you think about it when you're texting and you actually text wrong things That tells you now what about when you're driving? Yeah When you're texting you text things you shouldn't be texting. Yes. Yeah So intoxication is one of the things both alcohol and other drugs But you also have other problems generally and it's mentioned even in the study That youth are risk takers. We like taking risks. You'll find us. What are those races drug races? You know, we do things Yeah, we want to Speed, you know, you see you're driving against each other. You see amacides and you want to Race there. Yeah, the same thing with bikes. Yeah, it's the same. We take risks and sometimes we forget safety You know, maybe I could ask the youth when was the last time you sat on the back seat Of a friend's car and tied a seat belt, you know on the front seat the car does And it makes you tie the belt, but the back seat when was the last time that you tied a belt One was the last time you took a bike Do the Yeah, you know and you put on a helmet You know, yeah, it's it's something that we don't think about sometimes you find even the bike guy Doesn't have undo the and that also covers in that they also are youth And they're increasing the numbers because they themselves are not safe. Then their passengers are not safe. So we have so many problems around Why road traffic accidents happen and why they affect the youth most. Yeah, we always run. We're always speedy Yeah, we are always taking risks Always taking risks and that's an interesting way to put it because I can imagine the pressure There many times I've been driving and you know, I'm just I'm just like, okay And then a Subaru pass me and then there's that kind of feeling you get you're like This guy I don't know how to explain So you feel like even you stepping your ignition because you're like You know, even me I can speed up if I want to then you have to yourself Calm down this could potentially end very very badly for me and then you see, yeah They find them racing against and they'll challenge you on the road Just out of nowhere you find, you know, somebody will zoom past you and he's not racing against anyone And you zoom past him and he zooms past you and it becomes a race and it's never it never ends up very well Sometimes and if we can go back to the other reasons why people end up in the emergency room For you you mentioned poisoning Intentional and unintentional. What do you mean poisoning? Do you mean like Maybe they've taken poison by mistake or they've they've Poisoned themselves maybe to Take away their lives or what do you mean? Thank you so much for that question And I think as we discuss it, maybe we should think about The youth and mental health. We're having a lot of cases of suicide We're having a lot of cases of homey sides. Yeah, and we need to think about Where are we coming from? Yeah, as I came in I there was a hot topic in studio pre Yeah, where people are talking about the homey sides that are happening Yeah, so we have young people young people having problems with mental health So that is something that we need to think about. There are a lot of cases of Intentional or attempted suicide. Yeah, so they get to the hospital Sometimes you get to reverse them. Sometimes you don't but it's a rather common case and the other is Accidental poisonings happen as well. Yeah, especially For the younger youth, you know, and we say youth. I don't know. What is the limit the lower limit? For children, yeah, we can get for younger than 15. Yes, we can get Poisoning that is an intentional with maybe organophosphates If it is factories, we can get chemical poisoning. Also, that is an intentional Not as common most common is intentional or attempted suicide most common is intentional poisoning or attempted suicide which could be in the form of taking poison or overdose on pills or something or attempting cutting yourself Attempting to strangulate yourself and then somebody found them and rush them to their emergency room You said sometimes able to revive them bring them back sometimes. It's too late. Yes. Yeah, so it's just It's a real concern. So what do we do? What do we do about mental health for you? That's true And I'm glad you brought up homicide because There are cases where especially among university students You know a relationship goes wrong or a relationship fails or something and a boyfriend or girlfriend takes, you know a knife or a panga and you know, they They hurt their partner in a way that they shouldn't and people start saying a tea. Hey, what's happening to this young man? Is it a reason of mental case? What is it? What's wrong with him? I'm just wondering when those people are found Someone who has committed an act, but they're still alive and well Are they taken to the emergency room as well or are they taken to hospital? Just in general because I would think that um takipatwa. Maybe he has stabbed somebody I feel like hey, it's an emergency figure. What's wrong with you? Yeah, but it could just be me that thinks it's an emergency. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Um, that's a good question. And um, I think I can say that Sometimes we neglect mental health that Mental health is an emergency There are psychiatric emergencies. It's a topic in psychiatry. It's a specialty. It's something that people do Yeah, and psychiatric emergencies include things like suicide And to some extent homicide, you know, we want to think about Making sure that um the perpetrator maybe pays for the crime But as always whenever We are taking someone through the judicial process There's always the psychiatrists coming in to assess the mental status To assess whether it was a pre-planned crime whether it was an act of passion You know a sudden thing that just happened. Yeah, and I think um I feel like I want to appeal to the youth Please do both men and women. You can do that as you look at the camera. It's never that serious, you know, it's it's It's something I think if you talk to older people, maybe older people should mentor the youth I mean we've been through this we've seen these relationships. It ends you move on. Yeah, so really we need to