The life-saving procedure which took two and half hours was the first of its in LASUTH.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof. Wale Oke, said the successful kidney transplant was part of the state government’s promises to deliver excellent healthcare services to the people of Lagos State. He added that several consultations were made before the surgery to make sure that the patients were well selected to avoid complications after the exercise.
He said: “But thank God today, both the donor and recipient are in sound health,"Oke explained that the patient, who was at the end-stage renal disease, was selected for the maiden surgery, and after about six-hour surgery (organ harvesting and implantation), the operation was successful.
The elated CMD said:
“LASUTH has come of age and we are glad. We are able to harness what we have and so we will continue to improve on infrastructure. Kidney transplant is not free; it cannot be free, but with us doing it here, the cost will be affordable (compared to traveling to India or United Kingdom for operation).”The Chief medical Director assured Lagosians that the hospital will continue to bring excellent and special services at the hospital.
The leader of the transplant team, a Consultant Nephrologist, Dr. Jacob Awobusuyi, said the initiative was conceived three years ago.
He said that the latest of several services offered in the hospital would help stop the trend of patients going to India and returning with complications that often eventually kill them.
Awobusuyi, said that the patient, who is still recuperating in the ward, had to be persuaded to have the operation here in Nigeria instead of India.
So after a year of dialysis, the patient came up with his nephew as a donor which made LASUTH medical team start the operation.
He said that both the 56 year old recipient and the 26-year-old donor expressed concern before the surgery but that they were both relieved and happy after the successful operation.
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Ohh! Thank God. This is incredible. More powers to ur elbows docs. A way ahead for our health sector. Thank God
ReplyDeleteChange in Nigeria. Thank God for the successful surgery
ReplyDeleteNice move...improvement
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't sound well 4 a 26yr old 2 donate 4 a 56yr old
ReplyDeleteBuh all de same congratulations 2 dem
And de doctors as well
Thumbs up 2 dem
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AwwwwwwWwww thank God for dat,Congrat to them...
ReplyDeleteWeldon guys.. Great job.. Keep it up 👍
ReplyDeleteEhya... May God bless and keep you the donor, you are not going have any complications. And I also worship God for the successful operation to the recipient.
ReplyDeleteNigeria is high time every government hospitals start to perform this operation instead of traveling abroad all the the time. We are giant of Africa na.
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Waow! That's a nice one
ReplyDeleteWow that's good.......we are moving forward
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Dis is really breakthru for our medical sector...
ReplyDeleteThumbs up and more power to their elbows.
Very happy with this new update. I pray we see more of this. It's high time our health sector step up. I wish them both speedy recovery without complications
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That's good news. But I know most rich people would still prefer to travel abroad for surgery. They just don't trust our doctors!
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Great!
ReplyDeleteWow! Nice. Some people will count this as an achievement under PMB! LOL
ReplyDeleteCongratulations
ReplyDeleteWow! This is good news. The future is really brightfor nNigerian health sector.
ReplyDeleteSincerely speaking the mind of Amadioha
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ReplyDeleteExcellent health care services my foot....I took my friend there with a gunshot wound to the chest and he was still very much alive, got to there gate and this motherfuckers decided to lock us out of there premises{and he was still alive} even before they brought the gurney this horseshit doctor decided to play 20 questions before they can take him in....***died in there surgery room{the oxygen tank alone is an eye sore}
ReplyDeletePlease this post should be posted to Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idiaraba, Lagos.
ReplyDeleteWow nice one.
ReplyDeleteWow, thank God it was Successful
ReplyDelete#iT will only get better
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Great news! I hope they leverage on that to make more Nigerians believe that they don't need each time to get on flight heading to either South Africa or India to get things like this done.
ReplyDeleteSince you people are selecting the patient, it means na owelo ife unu jetee.
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*clapping* This is good! We are taking steps in the right direction.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!!!!!! Tothe transplant. team, more greease to your elbows.will the recipient have i!immunosuppressant medications Imean original meds and not aba made .is recipient aware that he has take the meds for the rest of his life?
ReplyDeleteAll hail Lagos state University!
ReplyDeleteAwobusiyi was my conso o, welldone to the team, greater heights for medicine in Nigeria
ReplyDeletewow! good to hear
ReplyDeleteBravo to u guys and to the government
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