Why do some members of this forum politicize almost every thread on ND? Na wah for una

That's good shows improvement in medical aspect hope the children in won't experience after effect.

A welcome development but not the first I guess. A center was set up at adazi-Nnukwu in Anambra state. Some surgeries has already been performed there by nigerian trained cardiothoracic surgeons.

Nice. Glad to know my baby was on the team. Good work gurl.

That's Sani Abacha's legacy.

Are you people sure those guys know what they are doing? Cos nigerian docs are bunch of quacks. Dont quote me, i ve not had good experiences with them in recent times.

vivianblog1:
Abuja – The National Hospital, Abuja, said on Saturday that it has successfully carried out open heart surgery on twelve children with heart diseases of varying complexities.

Dr Jafaru Momoh, Chief Medical Director of the hospital, who disclosed this at a news conference held in Abuja, said that the six surgeries were conducted last Monday.

Momoh said that the hospital was able to carry out the surgeries through the collaboration of the Hospital for Humanity (HfH), a US-based NGO, under a seven-year collaborative contract agreement.

According to him, the latest six surgeries bring the total number of heart surgeries conducted by the hospital to 12.

“Earlier this year in August, we had the 1st set of open heart surgeries and this collaboration was to be a continuous one.

‘’This is to ensure that our core function of providing expert medical care is met and also to limit medical tourism,’’ Momoh said.

The chief medical director further said that the collaboration would further enhance technology and skills transfer to local team of experts, thereby enabling sustainability of the programme in future.

The open heart surgery is a method of correcting the hole in the heart of people, among other medical complications.

Momoh called on Nigerians to avail themselves of the available specialised facilities and services in the hospital to better their health.

He described the hospital as the vanguard of medical provision in the country.

Momoh said that such services include orthopaedics, that is, joint replacement surgeries, cancer treatment, spinal surgery, invitro fertilisation programme among others.

In his remarks, Segun Ajayi, Chief Executive Officer, HfH, assured Nigerians of the commitment of the hospital at ensuring that no child died of heart diseases.

According to him, HfH enters into partnership with Nigeria to ensure that no child dies any further due to heart surgery problem.

“No child who needs open heart surgery will be left behind, we are committed to ensuring that every child that comes to our programme is given the best of care and we are committed to the Nigerian child,’’ he said.

Mr Dikko Balarabe, a parent of one of the patients, commended the hospital for successfully operating his son that had heart problem.

“Since my son was discharged from the Intensive Care Unit, there has not been any problem.

“I call on parents whose children have any form of heart problem to avail themselves of this opportunity thereby saving them from untimely death,’’ Balarabe said.

Dr Iretiola Babaniyi, Chief Consultant Paediatrician/Paediatric Cardiologist, described open heart surgery as a corrective surgery in the event of hole in the heart among others considered to be abnormal.

“Open heart surgery means when you open the heart, you envelop the chest and fix what is needed to be fixed, there are times you close the holes,’’ she said.

Source http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/national-hospital-performs-open-heart-surgery-on-12-patients/

Cc; lalasticlala

Are we now supposed to hail them for doing the very job that they are PAID to do?

Donbrig:
Very positive news indeed. I know we will get there someday. Billions of dollars are spent on medical trips abroad by Nigerians every year. I think the govt should have at least 5-6 state of the art medical centers across the country, to help curb medical pilgrims by Nigerians. It's time to start doing things differently in Nigeria.

I concur. There's no reason Nigeria cannot be the next go-to place for medical treatment. If India can do it, why can't we? Something else we need to do is expand and modernise/repackage/rebrand our traditional medicine system, because there is a lot of value in that as well. The Chinese have done it so well with theirs, and I'm sure we have an even deeper well of traditional medicine than them.

hope dem no frgt anything inside person heart?

okay.

nice

God help.....

Nigeria need more hospitals across the local government areas of each state, with modern equipment and qualified staff. The country general hospitals are always overpopulated.

Our population is growing, infrastructure is not.

God bless GEJ!

What is the success rate now? No be how many you do na how many survive be the thing now