DELTA State Governor, Dr.
Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said the state
University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, will
start kidney transplant by February 2014.
Speaking on a Radio/Television phone-in-
programme at the Delta Broadcasting
Service, Asaba, he said the state
government was presently benefiting from
its partnership with the University of Texas
Teaching Hospital, Dallas, with some of its
doctors and nurses undergoing training on
renal issues and treatment in Dallas.
"Hopefully by February, next year, the
Renal Unit of the State University Teaching
Hospital will start kidney transplant in
Oghara in conjunction with the Texas
University Teaching Hospital", he stated.
The governor said that there had been an
increased medical tourism to the state due
to the ultra-modern facilities at the State
University Teaching Hospital, Oghara.
Uduaghan noted that as a result of the
pressure on the hospital facilities and
personnel, additional 300 bed-facilities
would soon be added to the University
Teaching Hospital, stressing that this would
ease pressure on the hospital and reduce
the waiting time for beds, especially for
surgical cases.
According to him, various health
programme in the state, especially the
Free Maternal and Rural Health scheme
had benefited both Deltans and non-
Deltans alike, especially the needy in the
state, stating that "the programme is open
to Nigerians, irrespective of states and
tribes in the spirit of brotherliness and
peaceful co-existence.
"As a trained doctor, it will be harsh and
inhuman for me to turn back a pregnant
woman from the state free maternal
programme because she is a non-Deltan.
We are all Nigerians and we have to help
ourselves in areas of need".
Uduaghan explained that the state was
paying more attention to primary
healthcare to reduce pressure on the
secondary and tertiary healthcare levels.
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