The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in December carried out the first successful bone bridge surgery in West Africa as well as successful cochlear implant surgeries on three deaf patients.
The hospital also had its first successful kidney transplant carried out by the hospital’s team of urologists and nephrologists in November and discharged the patient on December 1.
Commissioner for Health Jide Idris made this known at the ministerial briefing in commemoration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s one year anniversary.
He said in the period under review, LASUTH in collaboration with Vision Care and South Korean Community in Nigeria provided free cataract surgeries for 120 Lagosians and treated 250 outpatients between November 9 and 13, last year with 100 percent success rate.
Under the blindness prevention programme, 7, 250 patients with varying ophthalmic conditions were screened at 29 community screening venues of which 4, 867 were given free glasses.
The commissioner said LASUTH won several international awards in the period under review as its Departments of Internal Medicine, ENT, Psychiatry and Pediatrics were granted accreditations by the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.
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