The Chief Medical Director, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Professor Adekunle Ajayi, said on Sunday that the hospital performed free surgical operations for 160 patients as part of the hospital’s end of the year activities.“We also did free surgery for 60 individuals with hernia, glaucoma and all forms of minor surgical procedures. In all 160 people benefitted from our free surgical outreach to mark the end of the year activity for the hospital,” Ajayi said.
The CMD added that the hospital did not have problems screening the beneficiaries as it had earlier announced the kind of patients it wanted to screen.
“We made it clear that what we wanted to do was to attend to patients who had cataracts and individuals with different types of lumps, including hernia. It was not as if everybody who had a problem in town came for the screening.
“As part of the programmes of the hospital, we go out to the communities twice a week for free medical outreaches. I have not received data for 2019, but in 2018, we visited 77 communities in Ekiti, as well as parts of Kwara, Kogi and Ondo states where we attended to thousands of patients free-of-charge.
“My expectation for 2020 is to consolidate on the gains we have made. In the last two years, we have been able to restore or regain the corporate reputation of the hospital. By so doing, we have been able to attract patients back in volumes to the hospital,” he said.
source: Punch
