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Nigeria: UBTH to Commence Open Heart Surgery
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Vanguard (Lagos)
27 June 2008
Posted to the web 27 June 2008
Simon Ebegbulem
Lagos
THE Management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), is to commence the open heart surgery programme and the Laposcopic surgery programme. Meanwhile, 170 couples have benefitted from the Invitro Fertilization (IVF) Programme in the last one year.
The Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Dr Eugene Okpere leading a delegation in a courtesy visit to the Benin Monarch, Oba Erediuwa yesterday, said the hospital was better equipped now to conduct these surgeries, explaining that they deemed it necessary to come and explain the achievements recorded so far by the Hospital in his kingdom ahead of their 35th anniversary.
He said that the Hospital was committed to providing qualitative and efficient health care delivery to the people of the area, particularly as it is strategically located to serve people from the South South and even North and South West.
Dr Okpere who was in company of the IVF Programme Director, Professor Augustine Orhue, stated that "we have achieved a lot all these years and that is why we decided that we must come and inform you that some thing good is happening in your kingdom.
Since we started the IVF programme, we have recorded tremendous successes since the programme started. We also want to tell you that UBTH is about to start the open heart surgery programme, as well as the Laposcopic surgery programme.
"We have few hospitals in the country that handles surgeries like this but we want to say that we now have the facilities to handle them here. This will help the people of the zone tremendously because they will not need to travel far for surgeries like that," he stated.
He added that the 35th anniversary of the Hospital would be chaired by a Prince fromm the Palace, Professor Gregory Akenzua and solicited for the support and prayers of the palace so as to have a successful occasion.
Also speaking, the IVF Programme Director, Professor Augustine Orhue, explained that the IVF is under a department called the Human Reproductive Programme and the Hospital started it in June 2007.
According to him, "it is now discovered that IVF is the highest ability to the treatment of infertility and has helped in a long way in stabilising marriages which would have collapsed due to lack of children. The invent of IVR is a factor stabilising marriages and in the last one year, 170 couples have benefited from the programme."
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Responding, the Oba commended the management of the Hospital for their efforts so far and assured of the palace's continuous support in all their programmes.
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