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Ogun State govt plans free paediatric surgery for 200 children

By Charles Coffie-Gymafi, Abeokuta
16 August 2022   |   4:04 am
Ogun State Government, in collaboration with Leicester Children’s Hospital, has planned to provide free medical surgery for 200 indigent children in the state.

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun (left); Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker and Chief Medical Director, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Dr. Olubunmi Fatungashe, during the launch of free paediatric surgery for 200 children at the modular laboratory of the hospital in Sagamu… yesterday.

Ogun State Government, in collaboration with Leicester Children’s Hospital, has planned to provide free medical surgery for 200 indigent children in the state.

Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, Dr. Oluwabunmi Fatungase, disclosed this yesterday.

Fatungase said that the five-day free paediatric surgery expedition would also allow the state government reduce medical tourism and give the less privileged the opportunity to be treated and operated upon without paying a dime.

The OOUTH CMD, who spoke at the kick-off of the medical outreach held at the OOUTH, said children with medical cases, such as hernia and hydrocele, undescended testes, hypospadias, hirshsprung disease, anorectal malformations and lumps, as well as swelling, would be given free surgery

ALSO, the state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, who spoke on the programme, noted that the exercise is an epoch-making moment for the teaching hospital and the country as a whole, stressing that the target of the exercise is about 250 indigent-children.

Coker, while noting that the exercise was only made possible as a result of the leadership style of Governor Dapo Abiodun, which has encouraged collaboration, inclusiveness and innovation, thanked the governor for his extensive investment in the hospital, which she said, had gingered philanthropists to collaborate with the state in upgrading infrastructure and investing in modern medical equipment.

Abiodun, while declaring the programme open, said his administration would do all it could to improve the quality and service delivery of medical personnel.

He said that his administration would further explore how to deepen the relationship and collaboration between the state government and Leicester Children’s Hospital, adding that the medical outreach programme is a noble initiative that his administration would continue to support for the all-round benefit of the state.

The governor said his administration had in the last three years grown the number of ambulances from five to over 50, adding that the ambulances are being supported by tricycle ambulances, which have the capacity to access the primary healthcare centres where vehicle ambulances cannot reach.

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