The Kidney Surgery Team at the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja has
successfully carried out its second kidney
transplant on a 38-year-old unnamed male
patient. The Chief Medical Director, Prof. Adewale Oke,
disclosed this at a news conference on Tuesday in
Lagos. He said the transplant was borne out of the
hospital’s determination to sustain innovation in
healthcare delivery in the country. “We are pleased to inform you that this is yet
another feat in the hospital’s quest to provide
excellent healthcare for the people of the state
through our homegrown professionals. “We will continue to strive to provide excellent and
accessible healthcare that will improve the
standard of living of the good people of state, and
its environs,” he said. The director said that kidney transplant had come
to stay in LASUTH and would save Nigerians who
sought foreign medical trip at a high cost in foreign
exchange. Also speaking, the Head of the surgery team, Dr
Olugbenga Awobusuyi, who expressed
satisfaction with the outcome of the operation, said
that there was no complication during and after
the transplant.