No fewer than 100 folks have thus far benefited from the continued Free Surgical Intervention Programme initiated by the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun.
The programme kicked off on Monday with the registration of sufferers, whereas surgical operations began in earnest on Tuesday.
The surgical procedures are happening throughout the six State Hospitals and the 40 Normal Hospitals throughout the state.
The breakdown confirmed that 36 surgical procedures have been carried out at State Hospital, Abeokuta, Ijebu Ode (22), Ilaro (6), and Ifo (4).
On the Normal Hospitals, two procedures have been carried out at Odeda, Owode-Egba (4), Ikenne (5), Iperu (3) and Imeko (6). The Olikoye Ransome Kuti Memorial Hospital, Asero, Abeokuta has witnessed one process.
Talking on the progress of the programme on the State Hospital, Ijaye, Abeokuta, the Chief Medical Director, Dr. Bababunmi Osinaike, mentioned the intervention programme has been seamless as 491 folks have been registered on the hospital, whereas 36 sufferers have been operated upon.
He mentioned: “As of this morning (Wednesday), now we have registered about 491 enrollees. They’re screened by well being practitioners and so they additionally resolve these which are eligible and match for surgical procedure. We commenced surgical procedure yesterday and now we have carried out 36 surgical procedures thus far.
“Out of the 36, we had 13 basic surgical procedure circumstances, one orthopedic, and 22 Ophthalmic surgical procedures. The final surgical procedure circumstances vary from hernia, undescended testicles, excision of breast lump, lipomas, amongst others.”
The CMD, mentioned 40 sufferers have been booked for operation out of which 17 would go for basic surgical procedure, and 23 for eye operation, including that some gynaecology circumstances like fibroid and thyroid, could be attended to on Thursday.
Head of Medical Companies, the unit finishing up the surgical operations, Dr. Samuel Tolulope, mentioned although the free surgical procedure programme has attracted an enormous turnout of sufferers, it has been hitch-free with no loss of life recorded.
Mr. Owolabi Soletire, a resident of Abeokuta who was operated on lumps within the hand, elbow, and head mentioned: As quickly as I noticed the advert on the Internet, I shortly ran right down to the State Hospital, met with nurses and docs who registered, perform the required assessments on me freed from cost and as we speak, they efficiently carried out the operation. I wish to recognize God and our amiable governor for this free surgical procedure.”
Additionally, Mr. Sunday Alayade, who was operated on hernia, thanked the governor for permitting him to profit from the programme, saying with the operation finished, his well being would return to regular.
On the State Hospital Ijebu-Ode, a complete of 23 surgical procedures have been efficiently accomplished.
The Medical Director of the Hospital, Dr. Banjo Adeoye, who made this identified in an interview, mentioned the procedures would proceed until the thirty first of March, 2024.
“The surgical procedures we did as we speak had been for those who got here and registered yesterday and we carried out 11 surgical procedures.
“For as we speak, now we have 12 surgical procedures and it’s nonetheless occurring on the Theatre as at this second,” he mentioned.
Dr Banjo thanked Governor Dapo Abiodun for the chance given to the much less privileged to have entry to free well being care, saying that the hospital is totally ready to make sure that all registered beneficiaries are attended to.
“Up to now, it has been easy. We have now no main challenges. It’s simply that day-to-day, the variety of folks registering retains going up.
“As of yesterday (Tuesday), we had 206 registered beneficiaries and at this second (Wednesday), now we have recorded about 230 beneficiaries for numerous surgical procedures,” he mentioned.
Mrs. Arinola Adenuga, whose 6 years outdated son was operated on on the hospital, expressed her happiness on the alternative given to them by Governor Abiodun, saying that the burden of elevating funds for the well-being of her son had been taken care of by the programme.
Additionally, 20-year-old Okuwobi Ayomide, 18-year-old Onaleye Solomon, and 13-year-old Olusola Abdulquazeem, who had Hernia operations on the hospital, thanked Governor Abiodun for the generosity prolonged to them.
