This practice of people giving their nails to these ‘Abochis’ has become some normal way of life. People prefer to sit down for these ‘Abochis’ to trim their nails and dress them up.
Let’s be real, how many hours would it take you to dress your nails? How busy are you that you can’t take just a few minutes out of your time to dress up your nails? How expensive is a blade? Or you are scared you would cut yourselves when dressing up your nails? I still can’t ‘think far’.
These ‘Abochis’ are spreading infections like HIV, Hepatitis B and Tetanus. They have no chemical or antiseptic lotion to clean the scissors or knives they use. A recent interview by the Hepatitis B Control Commission has confirmed that 85% of people who patronize this service have had various degrees of cuts.
In considering this, according to WHO, sharing sharps like blades and scissors account for 0.01% of HIV, meaning out of 100 HIV diagnoses, a likelihood of 1 was through sharing of sharps. Also, Hepatitis B can survive outside the body for seven days. To talk about the causative agent of Tetanus, it can adapt to various conditions that methylated spirit can’t kill.
So, you see what you expose yourself to for just a little action of laziness?
But please with all sincerity, not that I want to paint someone’s business black, but as we all know, prevention is better than cure.
