The Ahmadu Bello College Instructing College, ABUTH, Zaria is about to begin kidney transplant surgical procedures in 2025 in direction of bringing reduction to sufferers with kidney failure and reversing medical tourism.
Prof. Ahmed Umdagas, Chief Medical Director of the hospital, made this identified in an interview with the Information Company of Nigeria on Sunday in Zaria.
Umdagas stated the Urology Centre of Excellence can be prepared by the primary quarter of 2025 to supply top quality urology companies.
“By the primary quarter of 2025, ABUTH would begin kidney transplant, what was simply holding us was just a few infrastructure.
“Beside that, a lot of the machines and gear for kidney transplant had been obtainable and our personnel have been adequately skilled to supply the companies,’’ he stated.
Umdagas added that apart from the urology centre, there would even be an Amenity Wing that may take any class of sufferers.
In keeping with him, the amenity wing can have a single-bed room, a room and parlour for the prosperous sufferers; stressing that ABUTH was decided to supply global-best companies.
Umdagas stated, “The amenity wing would have a devoted line and a web site; the web site can have the profile of medical doctors within the hospital.
“When a affected person desires to see a sure professor or specialist what he’ll simply do is to make a name on the devoted line or the web site to see him seamlessly.”
Equally, the CMD stated a contract has been awarded for the procurement of linear machines in direction of enhancing most cancers care on the facility.
Whereas talking on extra efforts to reverse medical tourism, the chief medical director stated ABUTH had a completely purposeful 128 Slice CT Scan machine.
He stated, “If you’re doing investigation overseas that requires using the 128 slice CT Scan, one should pay an quantity not decrease than $200 which is over N300,000 whereas ABUTH expenses for such service is simply N30,000”
The CMD disclosed that many sufferers had been coming to ABUTH to do the scan, take it overseas and proceed their therapies.
“We even have 1.5 Tesla MRI and 0.2 Tesla MRI machines that are excessive imaging machines.
“They’re absolutely purposeful on the hospital and the price for such companies was far under what’s being charged in different places inside Nigeria.
“We additionally do lithotripsy at ABUTH which is breaking stones by laser as a substitute of a surgical procedure,’’ he stated.
Umdagas stated the hospital had celebrated over 5 profitable IVF instances in collaboration with its companions.
In keeping with him, the hospital plans to construct a unit that might home all the required gear for IVF companies in its subsequent budgets.NAN
