DELSUTH Records First Kidney Transplant

Hope for kidney patients,
who have to travel overseas at exorbitant costs for treatment, was raised yesterday with a successful kidney transplant at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara.
State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan was among the team of doctors in the theatre during the operation. He had last year assured Deltans shortly after a watershed implantation that the medical feat in form of a kidney transplant would take place at the state-owned hospital this year.
Uduaghan, who spoke with reporters at Oghara shortly after the successful operation, said that the latest rare feat was another medical breakthrough for the hospital.
He said: “This is a happy day for me as we are able to provide this service,” the governor said, adding, “I know we were well prepared for this surgery and we also have a good post surgery team.”
Against the backdrop of numerous patients who troop daily to the hospital with different ailments, the governor said that government was planning to expand bed facilities by putting up a 300-bed ward for the hospital and that the hospital had entered into a five-year partnership with UT South-Western Medical Centre, Dallas.