A successful Renal Transplant was recently carried out in FMC Umuahia.

Even though this is a relative success compared with the environment ,yet I would have no cause to celebrate knowing the trend of events in that zoo.

The first successful Open Heart Surgery in Sub Saharan Africa if not the whole of Africa was conducted upon the ruins of the carnage unleashed on us by Nigeria. Way back by 1st of February 1974, by Igbo Sons.. Just for emphasis, only 4 fucking years after the Civil War.. What is the situation today after years of Oil boom?

After my WAEC in 1999, I went to school (Government College Owerri) to bid my form Teacher Farwell as I prepared to leave for Zaria, I had been admitted to The Nigerian Defense Academy ,I had bought all the requirements .As fate would have it, a Career talk was in progress where Dr Philip Njemanze he himself a Neurologist, told stories about UNTH CARDIAC CENTER OF EXCELLENCE.

Long Stories Short, by the following year I was bound for Nsukka, I had abandoned Zaria after the whole rigors, I wanted to be part of those glories at The Cardiac Center of Excellence. Four years into my schooling, I met a sordid disappointment during my clinical posting..

The Cardiac Center of Excellence was dilapidated and was rusting away under lock and keys, while the mystical USA trained Cardiac Surgeon,Prof Martin Aghaji with his team was pacing aimlessly around the Hospital with his big boots. The Cardiac Ward was packed with dying peeps in need of surgeries I would often get depressed after each teaching round after seeing human suffering and frequent deaths. I never saw any Open Heart Surgery because the equipments were all damaged without replacement...

Just imagine if the tempo initiated by the Young Cardiac Surgeons Dr Anyanwu and co that started it was since 1974 was maintained till date, today I doubt if any Country would compare with us....!

Just like every other success here , the Renal Transplant Surgery success recorded in FMC Umuahia would die a natural death, just like the Bone Marrow transplant in UCH. There is a ceiling to progress in Nigeria, that ceiling is your Government....


I would take full responsibilities to everything I have said!!









https://etimes.com.ng/a-successful-renal-transplant-was-recently-carried-out-in-fmc-umuahia/





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IkpuMmadu:
A successful Renal Transplant was recently carried out in FMC Umuahia.

Even though this is a relative success compared with the environment ,yet I would have no cause to celebrate knowing the trend of events in that zoo.

The first successful Open Heart Surgery in Sub Saharan Africa if not the whole of Africa was conducted upon the ruins of the carnage unleashed on us by Nigeria. Way back by 1st of February 1974, by Igbo Sons.. Just for emphasis, only 4 fucking years after the Civil War.. What is the situation today after years of Oil boom?

After my WAEC in 1999, I went to school (Government College Owerri) to bid my form Teacher Farwell as I prepared to leave for Zaria, I had been admitted to The Nigerian Defense Academy ,I had bought all the requirements .As fate would have it, a Career talk was in progress where Dr Philip Njemanze he himself a Neurologist, told stories about UNTH CARDIAC CENTER OF EXCELLENCE.

Long Stories Short, by the following year I was bound for Nsukka, I had abandoned Zaria after the whole rigors, I wanted to be part of those glories at The Cardiac Center of Excellence. Four years into my schooling, I met a sordid disappointment during my clinical posting..

The Cardiac Center of Excellence was dilapidated and was rusting away under lock and keys, while the mystical USA trained Cardiac Surgeon,Prof Martin Aghaji with his team was pacing aimlessly around the Hospital with his big boots. The Cardiac Ward was packed with dying peeps in need of surgeries I would often get depressed after each teaching round after seeing human suffering and frequent deaths. I never saw any Open Heart Surgery because the equipments were all damaged without replacement...

Just imagine if the tempo initiated by the Young Cardiac Surgeons Dr Anyanwu and co that started it was since 1974 was maintained till date, today I doubt if any Country would compare with us....!

Just like every other success here , the Renal Transplant Surgery success recorded in FMC Umuahia would die a natural death, just like the Bone Marrow transplant in UCH. There is a ceiling to progress in Nigeria, that ceiling is your Government....


I would take full responsibilities to everything I have said!!









https://etimes.com.ng/a-successful-renal-transplant-was-recently-carried-out-in-fmc-umuahia/





From Ahamba Anoruo

• LASUTH explains success of second kidney
transplant
With the success of the second kidney transplant
at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital
(LASUTH), there is hope for patients who cannot
afford to travel abroad. It is cheaper to get it done
at the hospital, writes OYEYEMI GBENGA-
MUSTAPHA
It is no longer news that kidney transplant can
be done in Nigeria at a cheaper rate. With the
success of the second kidney transplant at the
LASUTH, Nigerians have been called upon to
patronise indigenous health facilities that carry
out kidney transplant. This according to experts
in Nephrology will help in consolidating their
capacity, save FOREX and put the country
among the best referral centres across the
globe.
It is a common knowledge that Nigerians prefer
to obtain organs transplant in foreign countries,
including India, Dubai, UK and the US.
According to the leader of the team that
sucessfully carried out the second kidney
transplant at the Lagos State University Teaching
Hospital (LASUTH), an Associate Professor of
Medicine and a Consultant Nephrologist,
Dr. Olugbenga Awobusuyi, many medics in
diaspora are Nigerians. “The reasons why they
travel out is because of power, equipment,
environment, among others. But now these have
been taken care of by most kidney transplant
centres across the country. It is high time
Nigerians partonised indigenous centres
because they parade highly skilled hands, who
work in the right environment.
An elated Dr Awobusuyi said the transplanted
patient is a 41-year-old police officer. His 42-
year-old sibling donated the kidney. Both
brothers are alive. The transplanted kidney
patient is awaiting discharge. It costs him
N4.5m, which will guarantee him a six month
drug supply.
Agreeing with Dr Awobusuyi, the Chief Medical
Director (CMD) of LASUTH, Prof. Wale Oke, said
the kidney transplant was a great feat performed
by a team of indigenous medical experts in the
hospital.
Prof Oke said the kidney transplant centre
birthed in the hospital following the state
government’s determination to stem medical
tourism.
He said it is the vision of the state government
to make LASUTH a foremost institute where
transplants can be done, especially kidney,
considering the rising cases of renal failure. The
team is not limited to kidney transplant; it can
handle heart and other organs’ transplants.
According to him, “60 percent of patients on
wheel chair at the international airport in Lagos
have to do with kidney issues, and most of them
are going to India or the United States for
transplant, with a lot of foreign exchange
involved.”
“One thing unique about this exercise is that the
experts are all Nigerians and from LASUTH apart
from one, an associate nephrologist.”
Oke said the surgery was not free, but cost
about N4.5 million compared to N8 million and
above charged overseas.
He said LASUTH would not accept commercial
donors for organ transplant, only from relations
or suitors, with proven evidence. He said the
cost of the surgery covers six months supply of
drugs.
“What we are doing now is family donation. We
are also looking at going into heart transplant.
We encourage Nigerians to come to the hospital
for their kidney transplant at an affordable cost.
We take kidney from a family member because it
makes the outcome better,” Prof Oke added.
Dr. Awobusuyi said: “In line with LASUTH
statement on organs donors, no one will accept
any commercial donor. For instance, the kidney
we just transplanted now was obtained from the
immediate senior brother of the patient. The
Tissue Typing was identical and easily matched,
likewise the Antigens. Commercial donors are
not welcomed here. I have some Nigerians that
have come to me attempting to sell their organs;
I declined them because we have a name to
protect. Once such a person finishes spending
the money, what is left? Nothing. Because we
obtained the kidney from a relation, the surgery
went well and we did not experience any
complication. The two transplants lasted for
about seven hours. Post operation, the patient is
in the ward, recuperating well and awaiting
discharge. We have discharged the brother.
Dr Awobusuyi said there are many patients
awaiting transplant, and they are on dialysis but
no donors. Some have donors but no money. We
are soliciting for money through LASUTH
initiative, unfortunately some have died.”
On patients who are still bent on travelling
abroad for kidney transplant, Dr Awobusuyi said
there are many centres in the country, in private
and public hospitals that can do the surgery.
“Here at LASUTH , the patient will be attended to
in a relaxed environment that has the best
equipment. Also, we have the best hands to
perform the feat and the money involved is not
as much as what it costs overseas. Out there,
they get non relation organs with all the
consequences.
“We accept non relations based on the proof that
they are suitors, pastors or long-time friend or
willing donor. Donors are examined by a Clinical
Psychologist for evaluation to check if he is
under stress, or being coerced. No financial input
from the potential recipient. He or she will be
made to sign Consent Form and also swear at
the court that the donation was being freely
done.”
On Tissue Typing, we send samples abroad
because it is cost effective to do that. The one
at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching
Hospital (OAUTH), Ile Ife is expensive but with
time, it is expected they will reduce it. The
laboratory is newly acquired and I guess they
want to recover the investment first,” Dr
Awobusuyi.
On whether his team was afraid of losing the
patient, he said: “It is a major surgery. We have
two patients we are attending to at the same
time. One is ill the other is not (the donor) and
he is being subjected to a major surgery. But we
know we are giving the recipient the gift of life,
and the necessary equipment and infrastructure
were there, we put in our best as a team and,
today, it has become history. As humans, one
can get jittery, especially when blood pressure
drops or goes up. But the Anathesist knows her
onion and rose to that challenge.”
He said many patients are on the waiting list for
donors while those with ready donors have no
money to perform the surgery. “Our challenge is
lack of donors. We prefer family donors. We
don’t accept commercial donors. Unfortunately,
many of the patients are on dialysis, some are
dying. The more they stay on dialysis the more
debt they incur; transplant is the best option.
Once it is a year after the transplant the cost of
drugs reduces, so it is cheaper at the end of the
day than dialysis,” he stated.
He said it is interesting to know that drugs take
the large chunk of the payment for a transplant
because, “we fear rejection, because the
recipient’s body sees the transplanted kidney as
a foreign object the way it sees typhoid, malaria
or other illness, and mount up a whole lot of
immune responses to fight, reject and destroy it.
So, we administer immune-suppressants and
antibiotics to suppress the reaction and maintain
a balance between suppression of the system
and not over suppressing the immune system
that give way to cancers that can cause
infection,” he said.
A pharmacist, Mrs Modupe Oyawole, who was
part of the team said it was an eye opener to
her how kidney transplant is done, “The best
practices put in place went a long way in making
it a success. We obtained the drugs from the
manufacturers’ representatives in the country, so
we obtained genuine drugs at minimal cost
anybody can get anywhere. We need the
government, non governmental organisations
(NGOs) and other advocacy groups to come on
board.
“We also will continue to get the drugs for the
patients after they are discharged for about six
months; we deliberately built that in, so as to
ensure genuineness and affordability. A
professional boPdy will never tell a patient or
client to use expired or near-expired drugs, only
a quack does that. We do not compromise;
hence, dugs take about N3m of the cost of
kidney transplant at LASUTH. After some time,
the drugs are reduced based on the amount of
doses in the body system
Chief Matron Aramide Adamson said it was a
collective effort that ensured the success of the
kidney transplant because, “we all put in our very
best. Nobody wants to be an exception.”
Deputy Director of Nursing Mrs Modupe Shode
said the feat has registered LASUTH among the
best facility in the world on kidney transplant.

http://thenationonlineng.net/kidney-transplant-cheaper-nigeria/