FCT to partner APSON to improve paediatric surgical care

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike, has pledged the FCT administration’s enactment for the Association of Paediatric Surgeons of Nigeria (APSON) to amended paediatric surgical services successful the territory.

Wike, represented astatine the lawsuit by the Minister of State for the FCT, Dr. Mariya Mahmud Bunkure, made the pledge portion opening APSON’s 24th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference successful Abuja connected Thursday.

Prof. Philip Mshelbwala, president of the event’s section organising committee, told delegates that the FCT and neighbouring Nasarawa State presently person 15 paediatric surgeons serving a combined colonisation of astir 4.3 million, with much than 2 cardinal of that colonisation classed arsenic children. He urged urgent enactment to code workforce gaps.

Acknowledging assemblage challenges, the curate said constricted infrastructure, unit shortages and the rising outgo of attraction necessitate coordinated solutions. He added that the FCT medication volition enactment to grow entree to prime care, fortify referral systems and amended timely surgical interventions for children successful some municipality and agrarian areas.

Wike besides commended APSON’s enactment connected training, probe and mentorship, and stressed the value of stronger links betwixt paediatric surgeons, household physicians and assemblage wellness workers to trim precocious presumption of surgical cases.

Prof. Mshelbwala expressed optimism that the league would foster cognition speech and heighten paediatric surgical capableness nationwide.

In his keynote, Dr. Paul Manya Dogo called for children’s country to beryllium prioritised successful Nigeria’s Health Sector Strategic Blueprint, noting concerns astir the country’s doctor-to-population ratio and instrumentality functionality successful immoderate facilities. He said ceremonial inclusion successful the nationalist blueprint would assistance unafraid backing and implementation astatine authorities and section levels.

Dr. Chris Isokpunwu, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Steel Development, who chaired the opening ceremony, urged APSON to prioritise grooming of young surgeons and proceed advocacy for improved infrastructure and financing to marque paediatric attraction much accessible.

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