The Chief Medical Director of
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, OAUTH, Ile-Ife, Professor Victor
Adetiloye, on Wednesday asserted that there was no reason for any Nigerian to
seek medical attention abroad.
He boasted that with the level of
modern equipment and numbers of competent personnel on array of medical fields
in the hospital, medical tourism in Nigeria should have ordinarily become a
thing of the past.
The CMD said for OAUTH to have
succeeded in carrying out 70 open-heart surgeries, several renal transplants,
Siamese surgeries and kneel replacement, among others, there is satisfactory
alternative to western medical deliveries.
He made this assertion at a press
conference organised at the OAUTH complex, as a follow-up to his inaugural
lecture held on Tuesday.
He added that aside the feat
attained in open-heart surgeries and renal transplants, the hospital has also
scored first in double switch surgeries and pin-hole surgeries across West
Africa sub-region, as he attributed the feats to commitment on the part of
Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Health.
He, however, expressed sadness
over what he termed ‘inadequate awareness’ in the public on the capacity of the
hospital to provide more technical health care and save foreign earnings.
The medical expert maintained
that with the level of medical equipment made available at the hospital through
the Federal Ministry of Health, coupled with numbers of competent personnel
produced through training and retraining by the Federal Government, Nigerians
need no medical tourism again.
“I want to plead with you media
to give us more publicity to create awareness amongst the general public that
there is no more need to go abroad for those ailments hitherto regarded as too
technical and complex for Nigerian medical capacity.
“Having carried out about 70 open
-health surgeries, several renal transplants, Siamese twins surgeries and
double switch surgeries among many others, Nigerians have no reason seeking for
medical care abroad again.”
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