Not only in Nigeria but Africa at large the most common diseases are malaria and typhoid, which with prolonged experience can easily be treated by self medication, it takes time but after a while you will realize that often falling sick of these illnesses you can always know the common symptoms and necessary respective treatments required. Only and only when has the self-treatment I have administered failed do I seek professional medical expert attention. In other words as you have said hospital bills are usually expensive for example in my country, Uganda, Africa just going to the hospital with common flu the doctor may want to put you on drip medication which is costly since he wants to make sufficient profit from you.
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yes, there was a time when someone close to me wanted to treat something and instead of the doctor prescribing a drug, he suggested injection that was very costly that she had to ask him if there was no drugs for the ailment and that was when he prescribed drugs