OAUTHC records 14 successful open heart surgery in 2016 – CMD
OAUTHC records 14 successful open heart surgery in 2016 – CMD
Sodiq Adekunle, Osogbo
The Chief Medical Director of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife, Prof Victor Adetiloye, has disclosed that the hospital has recorded 14 successful open heart surgery in 2016.
Adetiloye, made the disclosure while chatting with some journalists in his office, on Thursday, in Ile-Ife.
He said the success story of the surgery operation were recorded based on the competent doctors they have on ground.
The CMD added that the medical experts presently serving in the hospital are of international standard that were trained in abroad.
Adetiloye explained that the routine surgery that people travelled abroad to perform have been successfully handled and recorded success at the lesser cost in OAUTHC.
He appealed to Nigerians who were of the opinion that until they travelled abroad before they could get solution to their health challenges that can easily done in OAUTHC, Ile-ife.
In the same vein, a Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Doctor Uvie Onokpoya stated that hole in heart which has three sections of surgery that people travelled abroad to perform with over N6 million in Indian had been attended to by our medical experts with less than a million naira.
Onakpoya charged people who has medical ailments to always patronise our indigenous hospital, OAUTHC.
He added that people should first visit our hospital to examine the degree of their ailment whether it could be done in Ile-Ife teaching hospital, if not ,such patient can now get referer to abroad for such.
He explained that OAUTHC has modern equipments, coupled with well trained and high skilled professional medical experts.
“We would strife to do more of the open heart surgery this year, as it has been scheduled to begin very soon in OAUTHC, Ile-Ife.”
He said “what we are doing here is to safe people from financial and emotional embarrassment, wear and tear of the body for the people who travelled abroad for such treatment.
“For instance people go to abroad for minor surgery like anoraphy which is very common and can be successfully done here in OAUTHC without much stress with little amount.
Meanwhile, Dr John Okeniyi, a Paediatric Consultant Cardiologist, explained that hole in heart acquired over time by adult.
Okeniyi stated further that hole in heart of children was discovered as in-born caused by radiation and exposure of pregnat mother to the x-ray.
The management eulogised Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Sen Iyiola Omisore, Dr Themo Edmund, Dr Ramon Adedoyin and Feature Hope Foundation, based in UK, for their gesture toward the development of the hospital.
The hospital authority called on good people of Nigeria to collaborates with the government to provide more modern equipment and to give training and retraining of medical personnel to alleviate health challenges that make our people to run abroad.
