It is no longer news that road traffic accidents and disease conditions such as diabetes continue to increase the number of amputees in the country. Statistics show that an estimated 1:6 percent per 100 (32,200) Nigerians suffer extremixity amputation.
Saturday Vanguard spoke to the Medical Director of the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, Dr. Mustapha Alimi on amputation and other issues affecting the country’s health sector.
Alimi who expressed concern over the rising incidences of late presentation of patients to hospital in this interview with Gabriel Olawale said failure to present early often makes it inevitable for most patients to lose their limbs as a result of delayed surgery. Excerpts:
Effect of frequent health workers’ strikes in Nigeria
Industrial action in the health sector has been occurring for long, and we appreciate efforts by the government in trying to address it once and for all. The public health sector is losing the…
