Lagos — About 300 people with kidney related problems were sent abroad for treatment by the Lagos State government in the past one year. Governor Babatunde Fashola disclosed this when he received a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) yesterday.

According to Fashola, the 300 beneficiaries were referred to hospitals in England, US and India due to lack of necessary facilities for the surgery in Nigeria. The governor also reiterated the commitment of the state government to develop the Gbagada General Hospital's Intensive Care Unit for kidney transplant and dialysis. He said the project would be executed in the first quarter of 2011.

"We are already recruiting staff and consultants, who will manage the facilities at the hospital," he added.


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Gbagada General Hospital will be the destination of all kidney patients in Africa – Fashola


The Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has reiterated the commitment of his government to accelerate the upgrading of the Gbagada General Hospital into a world class medical facility that will serve both Nigerians and foreigners.

Governor Fashola stated this in Lagos while playing host to a non-governmental organization, Kidney Rejoice who paid him a courtesy visit.

He said the government is committed to developing the intensive care unit (ICU) of Gbagada General Hospital for kidney transplant and dialysis.

“This will be a major achievement for our doctors and, in the next few years, Gbagada will be the destination of all kidney patients in Africa,” he said.

Fashola said the project would be delivered in the first quarter of 2011, adding that “we are already recruiting staff and consultants who will manage the facilities at the hospital.”

He also said it had become imperative for the government to adequately provide necessary facilities for the proposed hospital, so that it could lure back home, Nigerian experts, who had travelled out of the country for greener pasture.

The governor said the state government had in the last one year sent more than 300 people suffering from various renal problems abroad for kidney transplant.

According to Fashola, the 300 patients were referred to hospitals in England, the United States of America (USA) and India due to non-availability of necessary facilities to perform renal surgery in Nigeria.

This year alone, we have sent abroad about 300 patients for kidney transplant,” he said.

While commending the NGO for the awareness rally, he challenged Nigerian artistes, including Prince Jide Kosoko, Antar Laniyan, Fathia Balogun and the popular comedian, Ali Baba, who participated in the rally, to write scripts on kidney transplant.

“A docudrama will go a long way in boosting the kidney awareness that there is need for exercise, moderation in size, moderation in the kind of food that people eat.

“Write the script in English, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and pidgin English. I assure you that as soon as we receive a script, the state government will provide the needed fund for the production of the film,” he said.

The group had earlier embarked on an endurance trek from Allen Junction, Ikeja, to the Governor’s Office, to sensitize the public on the danger associated with renal failure.

I believe if everybody can control the food he/she takes in, all form of disorder will be far from us. Disorder such as kidney problem, diabetics, hypertension, stroke and what a few are all caused by the food we take in each day. If we can control ourselves by controlling the food that we take in per time, it's sure and certain that we will live in a healthy and long life. All this junk food that we take in each day will only load our liver which is the detoxifying organ of the body. This will make the liver to keep working without appreciable rest. This will however lead to the gradual failure of the liver. Once the liver start to develop degradation, other organs are being affected. So if each day we food and vegetable which helps the liver in detoxification, it's believed that the liver will rest and we will then be able to live long.

Very well said, unfortunately, many of these diseases emanates from different areas like genetic defects, family history and dispositions and also environmental factors.


The most important thing is the fact that the state is showing a great deal of awareness and is doing a whole lot about these deadly diseases.

Even in the United states, many die daily without any kind of government health and health insurance.


I hope they hurry up and finish the Gbagada General Hospital for kidney transplant and dialysis and start saving and reinvesting all the funds they are sending abroad for treatment,

I am O+ very healthy man of 29 years. I want to donate one of my kidney.My email is okeyugwuh@yahoo.com

Dats a big lie, it has got notin to do with wat we eat...