HEALTH GOSSIP: Garki General Hospital Abuja, undertakes 6 Kidney transplants!!!

This hospital happens to be close to my Home in Abuja. It is located in the central area of the Federal Capital Territory adjacent Festival Road Nursery and Primary School... The Hospital was renovated some years back and was privatized... Ever since then, the hospital kept on growing..

According to Leadership Newspaper, A team of surgeons at the Garki Hospital, Abuja, has carried out six successful kidney transplants at the hospital to date.The feat was achieved at the weekend.

The hospital is owned by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and managed through public-private initiative.

The lead surgeon, Prof. Nadey Hakim, said the effort would discourage Nigerians with similar health challenge from travelling abroad where they spend so much money that would have been invested in the country.

"Nigeria is a rich country and I think it is better for Nigeria to invest in their own country instead of traveling abroad for the same treatment and paying a fortune," Hakim who is a former world president of the International College of Surgeons said, while commending the leadership of the hospital for the initiative.

The medical director of the hospital, Dr. Elijah Miner, attributed the feat to public-private sector collaboration, saying, "the reason we have been able to come this far is because of the public-private partnership.

That is why we have been able to achieve all this very quickly. We just came up with the idea and within nine months, we have been able to achieve all this."

He said with the success recorded, Nigerians will no longer have to travel abroad for such treatment anymore.

Miner who decried the high cost of drugs required by those who had done the surgery to maintain kidney function after transplant appealed to the government to step in and support them.

Also speaking, the group medical adviser of the hospital, Dr. Ibrahim Wada, reiterated the essence of the PPP initiative saying it was the only way for Nigeria to bridge the gap and stand among other countries that had achieved medical feats.

I see a brighter future for Nigerian Health Sector...
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