The Ahmadu Bello College Educating College (ABUTH) Zaria is about to begin kidney transplant surgical procedures in 2025 in the direction of bringing aid to sufferers with kidney failure and reversing medical tourism.
Prof. Ahmed Umdagas, Chief Medical Director of the hospital, made this identified in an interview on Sunday in Zaria.
Umdagas mentioned the Urology Centre of Excellence could be prepared by the primary quarter of 2025 to supply prime quality urology companies.
“By the primary quarter of 2025, ABUTH would begin kidney transplant, what was simply holding us was a number of infrastructure.
“Beside that, many of the machines and gear for kidney transplant have been obtainable and our personnel have been adequately educated to supply the companies,’’ he mentioned.
Umdagas added that other than the urology centre, there would even be an Amenity Wing that may take any class of sufferers.
In line 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 mentioned, “The amenity wing would have a devoted line and an internet 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 mentioned a contract has been awarded for the procurement of linear machines in the direction of enhancing most cancers care on the facility.
Whereas talking on extra efforts to reverse medical tourism, the chief medical director mentioned ABUTH had a totally useful 128 Slice CT Scan machine.
He mentioned, “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 fees for such service is simply N30,000”
The CMD disclosed that many sufferers have been coming to ABUTH to do the scan, take it overseas and proceed their remedies.
“We even have 1.5 Tesla MRI and 0.2 Tesla MRI machines that are excessive imaging machines.
“They’re totally useful on the hospital and the associated fee for such companies was far under what’s being charged somewhere else inside Nigeria.
“We additionally do lithotripsy at ABUTH which is breaking stones by laser as a substitute of a surgical procedure,’’ he mentioned.
Umdagas mentioned the hospital had celebrated over 5 profitable IVF circumstances in collaboration with its companions.
In line with him, the hospital plans to construct a unit that might home all the mandatory gear for IVF companies in its subsequent budgets.
