Prof Chris Bode is a consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba. Bode spoke with CHUKWUMA MUANYA on the many challenges faced by the foremost hospital and what the management is doing to overcome them. There are usually long queues at LUTH and patients most times have…

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The Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Chris Bode has said that the proposed Lion Olusola Dada Dialysis Centre would reduce medical tourism in Nigeria.

The Federal Government said it has, in partnership with the World Diabetes Federation (WDF), established about 390 diabetes clinics in different parts of the country to address the growing problem of diabetes, which experts say, has assumed an epidemic proportion in Nigeria and several other countries in the world. In a speech to formally declare…

The Minster of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has called on Nigerians to rebuild their confidence in the country’s healthcare sector and its professionals.

The Chief Medical Director, LUTH, Prof. Chris Bode, said in the past one year, the hospital has experienced a lot of improvements and the management decided to reward staff behind the success recorded.

Prof. Chris Bode, the Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, on Wednesday said nobody died of any “strange disease” linked to Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in the hospital.

A strange disease, the symptoms of which include diarrhea, bloodstained vomiting and high fever, has killed 50 people at Okunran, Okoloke and Isanlu-Esa villages in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State.

If the second test on two patients admitted for the dreaded Lassa fever at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba comes out negative, the state may be certified free of the disease tomorrow.

LUTH’s Chief Medical Director, Prof. Chris Bode, who confirmed the death of two persons on Tuesday, added that 100 hospital workers, who had contact with the index patients were being monitored for the symptoms of the disease.

The Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Chris Bode, has said that besides the three persons under surveillance that tested positive to Lassa fever, the 150 persons currently under surveillance, and two others confirmed dead on Tuesday, the virus is “now under check.”

Chief Medical Director (CMD), LUTH, Prof. Chris Bode, who spoke at a press briefing in Lagos yesterday, said there was need to inform the public that the hospital is committed to control the epidemic.