Essential Support Needed For Community Pain Clinics To Bridge Major Gaps In Primary And Specialist Care; Dr. Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic BC Canada
Community pain clinics are essential bridges for the significant gaps in primary and specialist healthcare— Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
SURREY, BC, CANADA, July 13, 2024 /
EINPresswire.com/ -- Most people in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) do not have access to primary healthcare. Additionally, most people lack adequate access to healthcare for addiction, pain, and mental health disorders. Recent clinical research showed that many chronic pain patients attending a community pain clinic in British Columbia lacked regular primary healthcare providers.
The peer-reviewed study highlighted the problem of healthcare staff harassment caused by patients and showed that half of the harasser patients lacked regular primary healthcare providers. The study indicates that a lack of continuous healthcare provision contributes to negative patient behavior. The prospective clinical study was published in the Anesthesiology And Pain Medicine journal by
Dr. Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, collaborators, and the
Salem Pain Clinic, Surrey, BC, Canada.
The Salem Pain Clinic is a specialist community pain clinic that provides multimodal healthcare for government-insured patients. Community pain clinics provide comprehensive healthcare for pain, sleep, post-trauma, psychological, and substance misuse disorders. These clinics reduce emergency services utilization. They can mitigate substance misuse and mental health crises that usually lead to avoidable fatal police shootings. Community pain clinics ensure the safe prescribing of opioids and sedatives, thereby enhancing public safety. Additionally, they maintain healthcare for patients who have lost their primary healthcare providers. These clinics enable chronic pain patients to access other specialists, including surgeons, psychiatrists, rheumatologists, physiatrists, and cardiologists. Indeed, community pain clinics are essential bridges for the significant gaps in primary and specialist healthcare.
Dr Bamgbade is an anesthesiologist and pain physician trained in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, the USA, and South Korea. He is a clinical professor at institutions in Europe, Africa, and North America. He has collaborated with researchers in Nigeria, China, the USA, Jamaica, Iran, the United Kingdom, Namibia, Rwanda, Zambia, Botswana, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Canada. He has published 44 scientific papers in PubMed-indexed medical journals. He is the director of Salem Pain Clinic, a specialist clinic and research center in Surrey, BC, Canada. Dr Bamgbade and Salem Pain Clinic specialize in researching and managing pain, substance misuse therapy, insomnia, neuropathy, public safety, injury rehabilitation, public health, medicolegal science, and perioperative care.
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Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Salem Anaesthesia Pain Clinic
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salem.painclinic@gmail.com
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