LASUTH records first successful cochlea implant surgery

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola said this weekend at an All Progressives Congress campaign in Badagry, a frontier community between Nigeria and Benin Republic, that the state would sponsor cochlea implants for many Nigerians with impaired hearing.“Before, people with hearing problem used to travel out of Nigeria before they can get that kind of service. […]

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola said this weekend at an All Progressives Congress campaign in Badagry, a frontier community between Nigeria and Benin Republic, that the state would sponsor cochlea implants for many Nigerians with impaired hearing.
“Before, people with hearing problem used to travel out of Nigeria before they can get that kind of service. But a Nigerian doctor, came back home at my request, joined LASUTH and has been working with all our staff,” said Fashola.
“This is the feat that has been performed at home. So, it means now that the door is open for a lot of our brothers and sisters, our children who have never heard a sound before would begin to hear because we would expand that project.
“So, it shows you that our law to support disabled and physically challenged people is not about lip service, it’s about a deep commitment about how people can get on with their lives if government does what it should do,” he said.
Fashola said his administration’s Goitre Control Programme screened 54 people for goitre problems last March in Badagry, and 48 of them underwent goitre surgery a month later.