Fury of the public after nurse takes selfie in labour ward

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Unbelievable but true a nurse in Malawi has been suspended pending further investigation after a selfie of her in a labour ward was posted on social media.

The selfie was widely shared provoking an uproar.

Malawians on social media have since called on authorities to fire the nurse saying her actions are shameful and could discourage pregnant women from going to hospital.

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“The innocent expectant woman at that back is not even aware that a photo of her naked body is being taken. What kind of a medical professional would insult a fellow woman and the nation at large in this way? Is this how we celebrate the use of modern technology in Malawi? Now when pregnant women prefer to go to traditional birth attendance will they be wrong?” asked one social media user.

Joshua Malango, public relations officer for Malawi’s Ministry of Health, said the photo was shocking.

But he said the case had been referred to the Nurses’ Council, which was investigating to see who took and circulated the photo.

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Two psychologists have published a study they say establishes the obsession with taking selfies as a real mental “illness.”

If you take six or more selfies per day, you’ve got it bad, they say.

The authors, Mark D. Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University in the UK and Janarthanan Balakrishnan of Thiagarajar School of Management in India, say the hoax article inspired them to conduct their study.

Recently also an American Psychiatric Association actually confirmed that taking selfies is a mental disorder, going as far as to term the condition “selfitis”.

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The APA has defines it as: “the obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self and post them on social media as a way to make up for the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy”, and has categorized it into three levels: borderline, acute, and chronic.

Do you think the nurse has a selfie disorder or was just ignorant?

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