We have succeeded in carrying out 70 open-heart surgeries, renal transplants -OAUTH CMD

The Chief Medical Director of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, OAUTH, Ile-Ife, Professor Victor Adetiloye, has disclosed that that the hospital has succeeded in carrying out about 70 open-heart-surgeries and several renal transplant.

He made this assertion at a press conference within the hospital premises on Wednesday, following his inaugural lecture of Tuesday.

Adetiloye stressed that the Teaching Hospital remained a leading tertiary medical facility in West Africa.

The CMD added that aside the feat attained in open-heart surgeries and renal transplant, it 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 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 heath 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 transplant, Siamese twins surgeries and double switch surgeries among many others, Nigerians have no reason to seek for medical care abroad again”.