Health • Created December 14, 2015 23:38

UNTH organises Christmas party for open heart surgery patients

The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu in Enugu State, for the first time, will organise a grand Christmas party  this season for the over 100 patients who underwent open heart surgery successfully at the hospital alongside the medical team that worked throughout the programme. Also, the hospital has lined up 15 children […]

UNTH organises Christmas party for open heart surgery patients
UNTH organises Christmas party for open heart surgery patients

The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu in Enugu State, for the first time, will organise a grand Christmas party  this season for the over 100 patients who underwent open heart surgery successfully at the hospital alongside the medical team that worked throughout the programme.
Also, the hospital has lined up 15 children with various heart defects that will undergo the heart surgery within the period of ten days in January 2016.
The Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr. Chris Amah, who disclosed this to Daily Trust during an exclusive interview, said besides serving as a means of social interaction for members of the medical team that carried out the series of heart operations, the get-together would afford them the opportunity to re-evaluate those who had undergone the open heart surgery.
Our reporter was informed that about 108 to 115 patients have been operated upon successfully since March 2013 when the open heart surgery programme of the hospital was revived by the current administration of Dr. Amah after it was stopped for 10 years.
Dr. Amah said that the UNTH has a network through which the patients are regularly monitored to ascertain how they have been living their normal post-operation lives.
He explained that through the get-together, the patients could form an association of people who underwent open heart surgery with the aim of creating awareness about the disease and advocating for more government commitment to the treatment of the ailment within the country rather than Nigerians traveling abroad and spending more of their hard-earned money for the same surgery.
 

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