50 Patients To Get Free Surgery In Sokoto

A squad of Nigerian surgeons with Kindred Health Surgical Foundation’s involution has commenced a week-long escaped surgical involution astatine the Noma Children’s Hospital, Sokoto, targeting indigent patients with terrible caput and cervix conditions.

The involution aims to execute analyzable reconstructive surgeries, procedures that ordinarily outgo betwixt ₦350,000 and ₦500,000, astatine nary complaint to patients.

The Chief Medical Director of Noma Children’s Hospital, Dr. Abubakar Abdullahi Bello, said the programme would supply life-changing surgeries to patients who could ne'er spend specified care.

“Some of these surgeries are precise expensive. In different facilities, they could petition ₦300,000 to ₦400,000 for this benignant of surgery. But here, they get it escaped of charge, without paying a penny,” Bello said.

He explained that the infirmary provides the operating theatre, wards, and laboratory enactment portion the instauration handles the outgo of surgery, personnel, and post-operative care.

Most of the beneficiaries are children affected by Noma disease, a information that destroys the brushed tissues of the face, leaving victims disfigured and stigmatised.

The initiative, the archetypal of its benignant astatine the facility, is expected to make wider consciousness and yet alteration regular surgical outreach programmes.

“We already person records of patients who cannot spend surgery. With this partnership, we invitation foundations to surface and run connected them periodically,” Dr. Bello added.

Professor Jacob Ndas Legbo, a integrative and reconstructive surgeon astatine Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH) and person of the surgical team, revealed that the existent ngo targets astir 30 to 50 patients betwixt Monday and Friday.

“The instauration focuses connected 3 things: grooming young surgeons, providing surgical equipment, and supporting indigent patients,” Legbo explained.

“For this intervention, we are concentrating connected patients with caput and cervix pathologies ENT, maxillofacial, and reconstructive surgeries.”

He disclosed that the Kindred Health Surgical Foundation was established successful 2023 pursuing a collaboration with American ENT surgeon Dr. Dave Shaye of Project Life, who visited Sokoto and expressed involvement successful replicating the humanitarian surgical task successful Nigeria.

“This is conscionable the beginning. With the enactment we person now, we anticipation to equine interventions similar this regularly, not conscionable erstwhile a year, and to assistance hospitals successful treating patients who cannot wage for their treatment,” Professor Legbo noted.

The Sokoto State Ministry of Health, nether the enactment of Commissioner Dr. Faruk Wurno, is backing the programme, which welcomes patients from Sokoto and beyond, arsenic agelong arsenic they conscionable the surgical requirements.