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  • UCH resident doctors suspend strike

    UCH resident doctors suspend strike

    Dr Adebayo Ogunjimi, the Chairman, National Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital (UCH) Branch, said yesterday that the union’s proposed strike had been suspended.

    Ogunjinmi made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan.

    “The proposed strike was suspended at the congress, following the timely intervention of the Minister of Health and more importantly for the sake of our patients.

    “We have given the management 30 days ultimatum within which all outstanding demands must be met and we hope they will not disappoint us again,” he said.

    NAN reports that the resident doctors are demanding the prompt payment of their salary arrears.

    They are also seeking the skipping of CONMESS 12 salary grade for doctors and the documentation of all demands raised by the association since negotiations began.

  • Akinjide hospitalised at UCH

    Akinjide hospitalised at UCH

    Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice in the Second Republic Sir Richard Akinjide (SAN) was yesterday admitted to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.

    The legal luminary was brought in in a UCH ambulance yesterday morning, following a distress call from his home.

    He was later admitted into the private ward after initial examination.

    A source said the octogenarian suffers old age-related ailments.

    Since his admission, Akinjide is said to have undergone series of tests including the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

    Born in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on November 4, 1931, Akinjide was called to the English Bar in 1955.

    He became famous during the litigation over the 1983 presidential election when he as the counsel to the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) proved that winning in 12 of 19 states passed the two-third requirement of winning the election.

  • UCH CMD seeks support for PPP

    University College Hospital (UCH), Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof Temitope Alonge has urged operators in the health sector to support the government by keying into its public-private partnership (PPP) programme.

    He said no country has sustained its economy by doing it alone.

    At the unveiling in Lagos of the PPP arrangement by a group of Nigerians in Japan under the auspices of the NIJP Integrated Allied Limited, Alonge said the supply of equipment in hospitals and medical centres by the firm on loan was a deal too irresistible to be ignored.

    Citing the United States, he said the health sector relies on wet leasing, adding that if the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was well run in Nigeria, it would have survived under wet leasing.  Noting that there was no need for a hospital to buy equipment, he said as professionals, their job was to provide services.

    He praised the PPP, saying that it was the best thing to have happened to UCH, as it once, on loan, through the assistance of a bank, acquired a diagnostic machine, which it paid back in five years and now making profit from it.

    ‘’My job is provide service. NIJP provides the equipment and I pay. What NIJP is bringing on board is fantastic,’’ he said. He promised to assist the firm to succeed.

    The firm’s General Manager Ochade Osekwe, an engineer, explained that under the deal, the company would make available to any willing hospital or individual, any of its products without charging for shipping, installation or maintenance.

    However, its partners would be expected to pay back by instalments of about six years. After which, they would acquire the machines.

    Osekwe, a former chairman, Nigeria-Japan Chamber of Commerce, said medicare was too important to be left in the hands of the government, urging Nigerians to avail themselves of the opportunity being provided by his organisation and that they have nothing to lose but many things to gain from the deal.

    He listed some of the machines as GE’sVoluson 730 Echo, GE’s logiq 400 Echo, digital X-ray and mammography system and video endoscopy system and hemodialysis.

  • UCH to begin bone marrow transplant

    The University College Hospital (UCH)  Ibadan, Oyo State, is to begin advanced bone marrow transplant for patients with sickle cell disease.

    UCH’s Consultant Hermatologist Dr Titilola Akingbola said experts from the United States would train their Nigerian counterparts.

    “It is a great burden on Nigerians and Africa and it’s so sad that we have increasing long survival among patients who, most times, are surviving in pains.

    “We will be using hydroxyures for them but it needs close monitoring. This new method needs blood donors for them to survive and it will save their lives completely.

    “It will be a red cell exchange which means the removal and replacement of the red cells. After this, the patient will have total relief from pains. They will only change the red cells coming from the bone marrow,” she said.

    The Head of Hermatologist, University of Illinois, Chicago, Prof Damiano Rondelli, said: “This new method has nothing to do with surgery. We will only take the cells out of the bones of the donors and give it to the Sickle Cell patients without any side effects.

    “The complications of the transplant have scared so many parents, patients and even doctors but this is a combination of two drugs for the transplant and it involves less complication for the patients.

  • Sickle Cell: UCH to begin bone marrow transplant

    Sickle Cell: UCH to begin bone marrow transplant

    The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan has disclosed its intention to commence an advanced bone marrow transplant that will ensure complete cure for patient with Sickle cell diseases.

    The Consultant Hermatologist of UCH, Dr Titilola Akingbola who disclosed this while addressing journalist stated that two to third of Nigeria population are have Sickle Cell disease, adding that they have brought in experts from United States to train them on how it can be cure completely through the bone marrow transplant.

    “It is a great burden on Nigerians and Africa and it’s so sad that w have increasing long survival among patients who are most times surviving in pains. We will be using hydroxyures for them but it needs close monitoring. This new method needs blood donors for them to survive and it will save their lives completely.

    “It will be a red cell exchange which means the removal and replacment of the red cells. After this the patient will have total relief from the pains. They will only change the red cells coming from the bone marrow,” she said

    Akingbola stated that the new method of bone marrow transplant will assist many Sickle cell patients to survive and be cure completely.

    In his remark, the Head of Hermatologist, University of Illinious, Chicago, Prof Damiano Rondelli said for over 30 years, everyone knows that the bone marrow transplant can cure Sickle Cell diseases but they are afraid of the complications associated with it.

    According to him, this new method has nothing to do with surgery, we will only take the cells out of the bones of the donors and give it to the Sickle Cell patients without any side effects.

    Rondelli said:” The complications of the transplant has scared so many parents, patients and even doctors away, but this is a combination of two drugs for the transplant and it involves less complications for the patients. We now have a new way of during the transplant without any form of therapy before we give the patient the stem cells. With it the patient will be 90 per cent Sickle Cell disease free.

    “No disease is associated with the transplant and that is what distinguishes it from the normal stem cell transplant. We believe UCH can become the centre for Sickle Cell disease treatment for Africa and that is why we need the help of everybody for sustenance for this new method to work especially in finance and donation of the bone marrow.”

    Also in his reaction, the Chief Medical Director of UCH, Prof Temitope Alonge noted that the hospital has commenced the building of a Sickle Cell centre, but the building has stopped due to lack of funding.

    “We need the assistance of well meaning Nigerians to complete this centre and also donors. When completed we will give free treatment for the first five patients,” he said.

  • UCH to expand geriatric centre

    UCH to expand geriatric centre

    The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, has said it will expand the Chief Tony Anenih Geriatric Centre (CTAGC) for improved quality healthcare services for older persons.

    The Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof Temitope Alonge, announced this yesterday at a programme to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the International Day of Older Persons with the theme:”Sustainability and Age Inclusiveness in the Urban Environment”.

    Alonge said:”The provision of quality healthcare for older persons has been one of the aims of my administration, which is why we are expanding it to include sections for x-rays and laboratory services.

    “We have noticed overtime the stress and delays older persons go through. To celebrate the third anniversary of this geriatric centre on November 17, we will start the expansion for improved services. We will also build car parks and game centres for the aged.”

    In his lecture, Dr Eme Owoaje said in the next 50 years the number of older persons in the world will grow from 600 million to two billion.

  • Foundation donates N30m equipment to UCH

    The Olajumoke Akinjide Foundation (OAF) has donated equipment worth millions of naira to boost healthcare delivery services at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.

    They included wheel chairs, electric beds, walking aids, paediatric examination tables, dental examination chairs, operating tables, trolleys, blood donor chairs, resuscitation beds, consumables, thermometers, among others.

    The Chief Medical Director, Prof. Temitope Alonge, receiving the equipment from the chairperson of OAF, Mrs. Modupe Akindeko, said: “This is the second batch of donation from OAF”, adding that it would address shortage of medical equipment.

    She said: “The four months strike by the doctors has paralysed our financial activities. We can’t even buy the needed equipment. But with this gesture, healthcare delivery will be provided. For instance, we were just thinking of raising money to buy the operating table, which costs N5million, but OAF has donated four to us.

    “The foundation is meeting the needs of this hospital. Many politicians donate to where they can benefit, but this foundation and its founder, Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, are committed to humanity.”

    Mrs. Akindeko said OAF, which was established in August 2005, would give back to the society and meet its needs.

    She said the foundation had impacted on lives through health, agriculture, capacity building, provision of potable water, and relief material to flood victims and building of classrooms.

    Mrs. Akindeko said they were assisting the government in health and education, adding that such gestures would make the country a better place to live in.

  • Photo: Foundation donates medical equipment to UCH

    Photo: Foundation donates medical equipment to UCH

    FROM LEFT: CHAIRMAN, MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL (UCH), IBADAN, DR AKINFEMI AFOLABI; CHIEF MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF UCH, PROF. TEMITOPE ALONGE; MEMBER OF OLAJUMOKE AKINJIDE FOUNDATION, ALHAJI OLAJIRE OBISESAN; CHAIRPERSON OF THE FOUNDATION, MRS MODUPEOLA AKINDEKO, AND MEMBER OF THE FOUNDATION, AKINWUNMI AKINFENWA, AT THE PRESENTATION OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT TO THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL IN IBADAN ON THURSDAY
    FROM LEFT: CHAIRMAN, MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL (UCH), IBADAN, DR AKINFEMI AFOLABI; CHIEF MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF UCH, PROF. TEMITOPE ALONGE; MEMBER OF OLAJUMOKE AKINJIDE FOUNDATION, ALHAJI OLAJIRE OBISESAN; CHAIRPERSON OF THE FOUNDATION, MRS MODUPEOLA AKINDEKO, AND MEMBER OF THE FOUNDATION, AKINWUNMI AKINFENWA, AT THE PRESENTATION OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT TO THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL IN IBADAN ON THURSDAY
    SOME OF THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT DONATED BY OLAJUMOKE AKINJIDE FOUNDATION TO THE UNVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL IN IBADAN ON THURSDAY
    SOME OF THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT DONATED BY OLAJUMOKE AKINJIDE FOUNDATION TO THE UNVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL IN IBADAN ON THURSDAY
  • UCH seeks private aid to fight sickle cell

    UCH seeks private aid to fight sickle cell

    The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, is seeking private partnership for the treatment of sickle cell anaemia.

    The Chief Medical Director (CMD), Prof. Temitope Alonge, spoke yesterday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, when conducting the representatives of a Japan-based health providing company, Terumo, on a facility tour of the hospital.

    The company donated a medical equipment, Aphresis, for the management of sickle cell anaemia.

    Its representatives assured of more assistance to the hospital after the tour.

    Facilities inspected included the sickle cell anaemia centre still under construction, the geriatric centre and the renovated blood bank, among others.

    The Terumo Group Chairman, Koji Nakao, said: “UCH has potential and Prof. Alonge has been trying to do many things. Just like many endeavours, there are also challenges. But we believe with what we have seen on ground, the hospital is forging ahead and should be supported and encouraged.”

    The CMD said findings by the UCH showed that in recent times, the major causes of deaths were infection, cancer, injuries (trauma), cardiovascular problems and sickle cell anaemia, noting that it was doing its best to ensure that patients suffering from any of these diseases got  the best treatment.

  • Ace comedian Baba Sala discharged from UCH

    Renowned comedian  Moses Adejumo (aka Baba Sala) was discharged yesterday from the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan after spending eight days.

    Baba Sala, 80, was rushed to the hospital on Monday, August 17, after he complained of discomfort, which the UCH spokesman, Deji Bobade,  confirmed as old-age related symptom.

    Bobade said Baba Sala was discharged at 3:47p.m after he recovered from the ailment.

    “Baba Sala has fully recovered now and  has been discharged. We gave him necessary medical care. If he’s not alright, we would not have discharged him,” he said.

    One of his sons, Emmanuel Adejumo, took to his Facebook page and said: “To the glory of God, my daddy has been discharged from the hospital today. I want to use this opportunity to thank all friends and fan of my daddy for the love, care and concerns. He actually thanks everyone for all comments and love.”

    On Saturday, members of Adejumo family decried the “constant rumour of the death of their father in the media”.

    When The Nation visited the hospital on Saturday, it was observed that more private security men were stationed at the entrance of the South West 3 Ward, where the octogenarian was receiving treatment.

    His family members, including his children and one of his wives, said they were advised to stay outside the ward so that the hospital medical team could have enough time to observe the health of the comedian.

    On Thursday, the UCH Chief Medical Director, Prof. Temitope Alonge, said the hospital would be responsible for the hospital bill of the comedian.