FCTA To Address Shortage Of Pediatric Surgeons

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) is to fortify collaboration with aesculapian experts to code the captious shortage of pediatric surgeons and amended children’s healthcare crossed the superior and neighbouring states.

The pledge was made by the curate of authorities for the FCT, Dr Mariya Mahmoud, astatine the opening of the 24th Annual General Meeting of the Association of Pediatric Surgeons of Nigeria (APSON) successful Abuja.
Mahmoud emphasised the captious relation pediatric surgeons play successful safeguarding children’s health, highlighting its compassion, precision and resilience successful contributing to nationalist well-being.

She acknowledged the challenges successful the healthcare system, including constricted infrastructure and skilled manpower shortages, portion besides recognising opportunities done technological innovation, improved grooming and authorities reforms.

The curate pledged adjacent collaboration with nonrecreational bodies to grow entree to prime healthcare and amended referral systems, ensuring timely surgical interventions for children crossed municipality and agrarian areas.

She commended the association’s dedication to training, probe and mentorship and stressed the value of preventive attraction done stronger linkages among healthcare professionals to trim precocious presumption of conditions.

She urged participants to absorption connected applicable solutions and actionable recommendations to heighten argumentation and objective practice, affirming her office’s openness to ongoing dialog to amended kid wellness services successful the FCT and beyond.

The president of the Local Organising Committee, Prof. Philip Mshelbwala, said Nigeria faces a captious shortage of pediatric surgeons, with an alarming ratio of specialists to patients that demands urgent attention.

“As a lawsuit successful point, the FCT and Nasarawa State person 15 pediatric surgeons for a combined colonisation of astir 4.3 million, with fractional being children. This falls good beneath World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations,” helium said.

Mshelbwala assured of the unwavering committedness of the relation to span this spread done cognition sharing, mentorship and collaborative problem-solving.