Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti Multi-System Hospital says it has begun a formal collaboration with Marengo Asia Hospitals, a leading medical group based in India, with a view to deepening surgical excellence and expanding the scope of specialised procedures available to patients in Nigeria.
The Medical Director, AMSH, Dr Akinola Akinmade, said that “The hospital, working alongside the Marengo Asia surgical team, has successfully completed nine kidney transplant procedures since the commencement of the collaboration late last year.”
Akinmade, who spoke in Ado Ekiti on Saturday in a chat with journalists on the latest breakthroughs by the hospital, said that all the “procedures were carried out with the highest standards of safety and clinical quality, with excellent outcomes in all the cases carried out.”
The CMD added that “ABUAD hospital has all it takes to successfully handle whatever nature of ailments faced by any class of Nigerians, instead of them seeking medical attention abroad.
“In addition to transplant services, our Renal Centre is equipped with 17 modern dialysis machines, including dedicated machines for patients with infectious conditions such as hepatitis and similar ailments.
“The centre currently conducts an average of 400 dialysis treatment sessions each month, making it one of the busiest and most comprehensive dialysis programmes in the country.”
Akinmade added that the Marengo team, in view of AMSH’s success and enabling environment, had also expressed interest in expanding their services into endourological surgeries and erectile dysfunction intervention areas, which are often under-represented, but critical to men’s health and quality of life.
He added, “We see this as a vital step toward making AMSH not only a national reference point, but a global destination for complex, patient-centred care.
“Beyond these surgical milestones, AMSH has continued to uphold its social mandate through the Afe Abiye Programme, a charitable maternal and child health initiative launched late last year.
“I am pleased to report that under this programme, we have already attended to over 500 pregnant women, providing them with completely free antenatal care, and conducted more than 150 deliveries at no cost to the patients or their families.”
The CMD, however, said that the hospital, despite the giant strides in service delivery and global partnerships, had continued to face significant infrastructural challenges such as the poor condition of the access roads leading to the hospital and the non-full take-off of the Ekiti Airport project.
Akinmade said that the challenges remained a major barrier for patients, emergency transport and visiting partners, adding, “In addition, the Ekiti airport project, which holds promise for expanding access and enabling faster referrals and medical tourism, is yet to take off fully.
“We, therefore, use this platform to appeal once again to all stakeholders to urgently intervene in improving the access routes and to fast-track the operationalisation of the airport infrastructure in Ekiti State,” he said.
