Golden Jubilee: UBTH Subsidises Surgeries For 115 Patients

The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) has conducted subsidized surgeries for 115 indigent peoples to mark its golden jubilee year.

The indigent patients seeking medical care at UBTH on Tuesday said the quality of care in the tertiary healthcare facility remain unparalleled, calling on the hospital to sustain special efforts aimed at providing quality and affordable medical services in the health institution.

The patients numbering over 115 registered and screened in the ongoing UBTH healthcare initiative tagged: “Subsidised Specialised Surgeries”, which is part of activities to mark the hospital’s 50th anniversary, said the development is uncommon and expressed joy to be part of the beneficiaries in the subsidized surgeries.

A patient who spoke on behalf of other beneficiaries simply identified as Lucky, said he was one of the patients that benefitted in the subsidized surgery, after having lost hope in accessing healthcare services at other hospitals owing to the huge cost involved in getting medical care.

On his part, the chief medical director of UBTH, Prof. Darlington Obaseki, who noted that the subsidized special surgery comes with a 50 percent subsidy said the initiative is to give back to the society.

He said assessing medical care globally does not come cheap, particularly for persons who are not covered in the National Health Insurance Scheme.

Obaseki said the hospital remains committed in providing quality medical services for its communities and Nigerians seeking quality healthcare solutions.

“In this month of February, UBTH is providing 50 percent subsidy on some high end minimal invasive  procedures such as Endoscopic  and laparoscopic surgeries, colonoscopy, optical coherence  tomography (OCT) among others,” he said.