BY ANDREW AJIJAH, JOS
Vice Chancellor, University of Jos Prof Tanko Ishaya, has said the institution through TETfund established Urology Center at the Jos University Teaching Hospital JUTH capable of transplanting all kinds of organs.
Prof Ishaya stated this Wednesday, during official singing of a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the management of the Jos University Teaching Hospital JUTH, the event took placed at institution’s, Council chambers.
The University of Jos VC said the aimed is to ensure qualitative healthcare of Nigerians, and to discourage medical Tourism overseas.
“A lot of people travel far to India, China, and other European countries for this kind of of treatments.”
“So, we felt that if only we can collaborate, put our heads together then perhaps, we will be able to provide such medical services here in Nigeria, and in Plateau State in particular.”
It was gathered that center worth a billion Naira with all needed equipments put in placed; already in used.
“We acquired all the facilities and the that we need for urology, kidney and of course that’s that included some components of training of the various categories of the specialist that we need in order to manage the centers.” VC explained.
Recalled that management of the University of Jos had recently equipped a tissue Lab at the same hospital.
Also speaking with Journalists in an interview, Chief Medical Director Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) Dr Porkop Pwopwada, affirmed that the facility is capable of transplanting all organs
“It could be kidney transplant, it could be any other organ, that can be transplanted, harvested from another human being to the other; that is a vision.”
The CMD explained further that “when you say Center for transplant medicine, that means it encompasses all organ transplants, is not only kidneys.”
Speaking on the need for the MoU “when you collaborate, you synergize, you bring in all your resources, you know, between the university and the teaching hospital.”
The physician in charge of the Urology Center Dr Chima Ofoha, assured that the facility will not too expensive.
“These federal health institution is not private, we are not profit driven.
The whole idea is to provide services to the general population, especially to the poor. So we are going to make it affordable.” Dr Chima assured.
A joined Committee headed by the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academics Prof Lahila Gowon, to be deputized by a former CMD Prof Ishaya Pam, was giving the mandate to facilitate the implementation of all agreements reached between the University and JUTH.