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THE Chief Medical Director of the University Teaching
Hospital (UCH),Ibadan, Professor Temitope Alonge, has re-assured Nigerians that
the cardiac programme of the hospital will offer succour to Nigerians with
various cardiac problems.
Professor Alonge also said that UCH
is the first tertiary health care (public hospital) to have cardiac
catherterisation services.
He spoke against the backdrop of the
recent open heart surgery conducted by the teaching hospital.
The patients are currently
recuperating at the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the North West 1 ward of
the hospital.
It was gathered that they will be
discharged from the hospital shortly.
The Chief Medical Director in a
statement said that while full cardiac programme kicked off in June 2013 with
Cardiac Catheterisation of eight adult patients with coronary heart diseases
and cardiomyopathies, two open heart surgeries were carried out this month.
“These were Miral Valve Replacement
in a nineteen year old boy and closure of a large atrial septal defect (2.2cm
in diameter) in a ten year old girl. All the procedures were successful and the
patients are doing very well,” he said,adding that the full complement of the
cardiac programme in UCH include full diagnostic facilities such as ECG (rest
and stress), Echocardiography (rest and stress), Ambulatory ECG (Houlter’s),
Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring, 64-slice CT Scan, Cardiac Scintigraphy
and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories.
Others are Open Heart Surgery
Facilities which include Heart Lung Machines, Full Cardiac Consumables,
Oxygenators and Cardiac Operating theatre with laminar flow, among others.
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