ABUAD Partners Indian Hospital on Kidney Transplant in Nigeria 

Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti 

The Afe Babalola University (ABUAD) has signed a two tears memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Marengo Asia Healthcare Private Limited (AMSH), a leading healthcare provider in India in a bid to expand the scope of kidney transplant in Nigeria, and reduce medical tourism.

The Chief Medical Director of ABUAD Multi-System Hospital, Dr. Kolawole Ogundipe, while speaking at an interactive session with the media, in partnership with AMSH in Ado Ekiti, yesterday, said this was to allow ABUAD offer life-saving care and specialised treatment without the need for Nigerian patients to seek medical care abroad. 

Ogundipe, who disclosed further that the partnership was also aimed at raising the bar of the already recorded success stories of the hospital on renal care and several, added that through the collaboration, ABUAD hospital, with Marengo Hospital, would provide services areas such as Endourology, introducing minimal invasive options for managing complex urological conditions, as well as offering new solutions to penile implants for erectile dysfunction.

The CMD said as at the last count, the hospital was already offering 10 dialysis sessions per month, but that the figure had now increased to over 400 sessions monthly.

He said this would also be extended to Laparoscopic and Advanced Surgical Procedures, providing invasive surgeries, for wide range of health situations.

According to him, “Way back to October 2021, our dedicated transplant team, successfully performed the hospital’s first kidney transplant, and our program has continued to make the waves, thereby underscoring ABUAD Multi-System hospital’s commitment to advancing functional healthcare in Nigeria

“In introducing the new kidney transplant programme, scheduled to take-off in January, 2025, through this partnership, we are proud to announce the expansion, in conjunction with Marengo Asia Healthcare Private Limited, which is a leading healthcare provider in India. 

“This partnership has already yielded significant success. In the last 48 hours alone, as we have completed four successful kidney transplants. 

” These surgeries, represent a monumental step forward, allowing us to offer life-saving care and specialised treatment, without the need for patients to seek care abroad”, he said.

Chairman, Urology & Renal Transplant, Morego Asia Hospital, Dr. Rajiv Sood, an expert in Urology and Renal Transplant and leader of the team said, “I will like to commend Aare Afe Babalola for building this hospital to cater for all sorts of ailments.

“ABUAD Multisystem Hospital is majorly selected for this partnership as a result of its 24-hour operation as against public hospitals that opens at 8 am and closes by 4pm.

“I travel a lot, trying to share skills and promote for the betterment of human kind.

“We will continue to partner to progress that programme. We will upscale the staff so that AMHS will be the Center for medical tourism in Africa.

“50 per cent of men who walk around in Africa suffer from erectile dysfunction which might be permanent and temporary.

“This is can be caused by psychological factor, accident, disease, hypertension and diabetes, especially with people suffering from sickle cell disease”.