An advanced v*gina reconstruction surgeries on three women with Vesico
Vaginal Fistula (VVF), have been successfully carried out at a hospital
in Nigeria
The Maryam Abacha Children and Women Hospital, Sokoto has
successfully conducted advanced vagina reconstruction surgeries on three
women with Vesico Vaginal Fistula.
Vaginal reconstruction is the creation of a new or artificial
vagina after surgery to remove part or the entire vagina; it is also
used as a treatment for vaginal cancer.
Sokoto State Commissioner for Health, Dr Balarabe Kakale, disclosed
this in Gusau at a three-day workshop organized by a USAID-assisted
Leadership, Empowerment, Advocacy and Development Project implemented in
Sokoto and Bauchi States.
The workshop with the theme “2016 Sokoto State Budget Performance Review and Public Hearing on 2017 Budget Workshop” was a platform for the review of the ministry’s nearly N6 billion 2016 budget.
Represented by Alhaji Mohammed Ladan, a Director in the ministry, Kakale said the hospital also conducted 162 VVF surgeries.
Kakale added, ‘‘Over two million children were immunized in the
state while the process of transforming Primary Health Care under one
roof in the state has reached over ninety per cent”.
He said other achievements recorded in the health sector included
the reactivation of quarterly free plastic surgeries at the Noma
Hospital, Sokoto by foreign surgeons.
The commissioner disclosed that the state government provided a
N100 million take off grant for the Contributory Health Scheme while
more than three million people were provided free malaria drugs.
He said, “Health staff were recruited and posted across the
state to shore up the provision of efficient healthcare services to the
people.
“Several other construction and renovation projects as well as
provision of hospital equipment, drugs and medicament were executed in
2016.
“This was not, however, without challenges like recession,
delay in releases of funds, poor internal revenue generation and
multiple taxation of private health facilities.”
-NAN
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