Buhari could have lived if treated at our facility — ABUAD Hospital’s CMD

Buhari

The Chief Medical Director of Afe Babalola University Multi-System Hospital (AMSH), Dr Akinola Akinmade, has stated that former President Muhammadu Buhari could have been kept alive if he had received treatment at the Institution’s world-class medical facility.

Akinmade, who exuded confidence in the hospital’s cutting-edge technology and skilled personnel, said the health facility would do everything in its capacity to keep the late President alive and functional.

The CMD, who said this in Ado-Ekiti, over the weekend, while addressing journalists, lamented the persistent trend of medical tourism abroad, especially among the political leaders and the very rush Nigerians, saying it’s high time for governments to bolster healthcare infrastructure, by taking a cue from ABUAD Hospital which has been described as the best equipped hospital in Sub Saharan Africa, with some of the best clinicians in the country.

According to him, there is hardly any tertiary health facility in Nigeria and Africa that is as equipped, or that can boast of the volume of sophisticated medical equipment, including hordes of cross-border personnel that AMSH parade daily.

All of these peculiarities, he said, were assembled by the visionary and patriotic zeal of the founder and legal icon, Afe Babalola (SAN), all in the efforts to make sure the hospital met global health demands of all classes of people, whether rich or poor, lowly or highly placed.

“Only late last year, the hospital, under the visionary leadership of our founder, went a step further by going into a formal collaboration with Marengo Asia Hospitals, a leading medical group, based in India.

“This partnership was established to deepen surgical excellence and expand the scope of specialized procedures available to patients, right here in Nigeria.

Since the commencement of this collaboration, the Marengo Asia surgical team, working alongside our dedicated Nigerian clinicians, has completed nine kidney transplant procedures here at AMSH.