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Alliance Hospital has successfully carried out 90 kidney transplants – Dr. Otabor

…Pledges collaboration with ANHEJ

By Joyce Remi-Babayeju

The Chief Medical Director of Alliance Hospital and Chief Consultant Orhopaedic Surgeon, Dr. Christopher Otabor has revealed that the hospital has successfully carried out 90 kidney Transplants in Nigeria devoid of complications.

Dr. Otabor disclosed this on Friday in the hospital premises in Abuja when he hosted the newly elected executive officers of the Association of Nigerian Health Journalists, ANHEJ, and members at dinner party.

Otabor who took the health journalists through the hospital premises said that the vision of Alliance Hospital since it’s inception in 2011 is to interrupt and find solutions to medical tourism in Nigeria.

He said, ” Medical tourism is often talked about in Nigeria but there is no solution, so when the opportunity came in 2014, the Alliance Hospital set it’s goal to provide efficient health care and to prevent medical tourism in the country.”

Talking to health journalists on the hospital premises, Dr. Otabor disclosed that the hospital is projecting a 200 hospital and a University of Medical Science side by side facilities, as the first indigenous hospital to achieve this standard in the health sector.

Furthermore, Dr. Otabor disclosed that Alliance Hospital has carried out IVF on over 60 women, 23 complex spine surgeries, 27 joint replacement surgery, 16 Brain surgery, among others

SPeaking to ANHEJ, Dr. Otabor noted that health journalists are as important as the health minister and so they ought to hold Government and the minister accountable over the health of the people.

Speaking earlier, the newly elected ANHEJ President, Mr. Joseph Kadiri said that new Exco had come to introduce themselves to one of the best hospital in Abuja, adding that they have been elected to run the affairs of ANHEJ in the next two years.
Kadiri said,” We want to collaborate with Alliance hospital as an international hospital .”
Our members will like to improve the health status of Nigerians. We want to write on causes, and prevention of diseases, by having interviews with Alliance Hospital among others.
Otabor called for public, private partnership in the health sector.

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