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Health Minister: More Hospitals To Begin Open Heartsurgeries by eaglechild: 11:50pm On Jan 01, 2014 |
The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, Tuesday declared that the nation's health sector had witnessed unprecedented improvement under President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, insisting that some Nigerians who still travel abroad for medical attention may well be doing that for the fun of it. This is coming even as the minister disclosed that the federal government was making efforts to get more hospitals from across the six zones of the country to resume open heart surgeries in order to reduce the pressures facing the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) and the University College Hospital, Ibadan that are both carrying out the exercise at present. Speaking when he paid a condolence visit to the family of the late former Minister of State for Health, Dr. silas Ilo, at their family house in Enugu, Chukwu noted that it would be difficult to stop anybody from travelling abroad for medical attention. "You can't stop anybody from travelling out. Even a sick person is entitled to medical tourism. In this case, the former minister did not go for medical attention. He did not die in a hospital but he merely went for a visit with his wife and suddenly died. It was a sudden death; nobody expected it; the wife didn't expect it, even the late Ilo didn't expect. You can die anywhere even in the moon," he said. While commiserating with the family over the painful loss, the minister pledged the readiness of the ministry to always assist the family of the deceased in order to reciprocate the late ex-minister's contributions to the development of the health sector in particular and the nation at large. The minister who also used the opportunity to commend the authority of the UNTH for successfully carrying out over 40 open heart surgeries since the resumption of the programme earlier in the year, expressed hope that more of such operations would be done at the hospital. He said the ministry was currently making efforts to get more hospitals to do the high-end surgical procedure which is one of the main reasons for the establishment of teaching hospitals in the country. He however thanked some Nigerian in the Diaspora for initiating the action that culminated in the resumption of Open Heart Surgery in UNTH. "This is part of the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan who has been monitoring what has been happening at our hospitals. He's pleased with what we are doing in the health sector, though a little more needs to be done. There's no doubt that this is one of the best administrations in this country," he said. Earlier, one of the children of the deceased former minister had thanked Chukwu for remembering them at the moment of grief, expressing appreciation that the minister had kept in touch with the family since the demise of their father. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/health-minister-more-hospitals-to-begin-open-heart-surgeries/167327/ |
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