September 11, (THEWILL) – Idowu Osuolale Obasa, a former two-time Chairman of Onigbongbo Local Council Development Area of Lagos has donated a lithotripsy machine to the Urology Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Lagos.
With this machine, for the treatment of kidney stones and related diseases, patients won’t have to go through painful surgical operations again.
Instead of cutting up the body, which might lead to all kinds of surgical complications or admission to the hospital for days, the technology would allow doctors to put patients in front of a machine that delivers shocking sound waves which will shatter kidney stones from the body within minutes.
Obasa who runs Biomedical Limited, the first company in Nigeria to produce intravenous fluids, said he was moved to donate the machine because he is a chronic kidney disease patient.
He harboured what doctors call underlying medical conditions which have seen him visiting major hospitals around the world.
On a visit to an Indian hospital for treatment, he was surprised to see that the lithotripsy machine was readily available in Indian hospitals but not in Nigeria where he claims we have more qualified doctors.
Irked by this, he resolved to fill the gap with the purchase of the machine which costs nothing less than N50 million.
While appreciating Obasa for his generosity, the Lagos State government called on other Nigerians to emulate the kind gesture to standardise the medical infrastructure.
Obasa’s keenness to contribute to the medical needs of Nigerians saw his company deworming 400,000 Nigerian school children for free last year.
Ivory Ukonu is a versatile journalist with many years of experience, with entertainment and society reporting as her area of core competence.
