The Ahmadu Bello College Educating College (ABUTH) Zaria is about to start kidney transplant surgical procedures in 2025 in the direction of bringing reduction to sufferers with kidney failure and reversing medical tourism.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Ahmed Umdagas, made this identified in an interview with the Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Zaria.
Mr Umdagas stated the Urology Centre of Excellence can be prepared by the primary quarter of 2025 to supply high-quality urology providers.
“By the primary quarter of 2025, ABUTH would start kidney transplant. What was simply holding us again was a couple of infrastructure.
“Apart from that, many of the machines and tools for kidney transplant had been obtainable and our personnel have been adequately educated to supply the providers,’’ he stated.
Mr Umdagas added that other than the urology centre, there would even be an Amenity Wing that may take any class of sufferers.
In keeping with him, the amenity wing may have a single-bed room, a room and parlour for the prosperous sufferers; stressing that ABUTH was decided to supply global-best providers.
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Mr Umdagas stated, “The amenity wing would have a devoted line and a web site; the web site may have the profile of docs within the hospital.
“When a affected person needs 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 had been awarded for the procurement of linear machines to boost most cancers care on the facility.
Whereas talking on further efforts to reverse medical tourism, the chief medical director stated ABUTH had a totally useful 128 Slice CT Scan machine.
He stated, “In case you are 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 costs for such service is simply N30,000”
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The CMD disclosed that many sufferers had 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 absolutely useful on the hospital and the price for such providers was far beneath what’s being charged in different places inside Nigeria.
“We additionally do lithotripsy at ABUTH which is breaking stones by laser as an alternative of a surgical procedure,’’ he stated.
Mr 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 will home all the mandatory tools for IVF providers in its subsequent budgets.
(NAN)
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