Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has launched a voluntary medical marketing campaign in Nigeria to offer specialised cardiac therapy, focusing on 108 procedures together with 28 open-heart surgical procedures and 80 diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterisation.
The initiative is being applied by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) in collaboration with Al-Balsam Association for Health Training and Development.
The marketing campaign is designed to assist sufferers entry superior cardiac care, significantly these whose monetary circumstances restrict their therapy choices.
During first 4 days of marketing campaign, medical workforce is about to carry out 75 procedures, comprising 10 open-heart surgical procedures and 65 interventional cardiac catheterisation procedures.
The workforce additionally performed 13 medical examinations and supplied consultations and different important medical providers.
The procedures are being carried out at Nizamiye and Zenith Hospitals in Abuja, the place 10 Saudi volunteers, together with specialist docs, consultants, nurses, technicians and administrative personnel, are working alongside Nigerian medical professionals to evaluate sufferers and ship therapy in scientific settings and working rooms.
Yousef bin Mohammed Al-Balawi, Ambassador of Custodian of Two Holy Mosques to Federal Republic of Nigeria, visited Al-Balsam medical workforce at Zenith Hospital in Abuja to look at marketing campaign’s actions.
The envoy expressed satisfaction with the organisation and stage of care supplied and recommended cooperation between Saudi volunteers and Nigerian well being employees.
The marketing campaign varieties a part of KSrelief’s worldwide voluntary medical programme, which deploys specialist groups to nations in want to offer therapy and assist healthcare supply in communities the place entry to superior medical providers could also be restricted.
Through the initiative, Saudi Arabia is extending its medical help to Nigerian sufferers requiring specialised cardiac interventions whereas selling cooperation between Saudi and Nigerian healthcare professionals.
Officials stated the initiative will ease the burden on sufferers who can’t afford costly cardiac surgical procedures overseas and also will facilitate data sharing between the 2 nations.
The programme provides to the Kingdom’s wider worldwide help efforts, with specialised medical missions offering sensible assist to sufferers and households going through obstacles to important therapy.
Stakeholders stated intervention is well timed given rising instances of cardiovascular ailments in Nigeria and restricted services for open-heart surgical procedures in public hospitals.
The ongoing marketing campaign is anticipated to run for a number of days, with beneficiaries drawn from Abuja and different elements of nation after screening and analysis.
