The management of Afe Babalola University Multi-system Hospital (ABMH) has advised Nigerian elite against embarking on medical tourism abroad, including kidney transplant, saying that six successful kidney transplants had been performed in the hospital.

ABMH’s Chief Medical Director, Dr. Kolawole Ogundipe, said this in Ado-Ekiti, at the weekend, while revealing the breakthroughs recorded by the hospital in kidney transplantation and the general management of renal diseases.

Ogundipe, who noted that ABMH has the best medical equipment and personnel that could compete favourably with their peers globally, said the hospital had competent experts and facilities to offer dialysis and treat other chronic kidney diseases that are now on the increase.

The Chief Medical Director, while reeling out further medical exploits already recorded by the hospital, said ABMH had performed over 200 interventional and open-heart surgeries within a spate of four years it began operations.

Meanwhile, a Consultant Nephrologist and Co-ordinator of Kidney Transplant Programme in ABMH, Dr. Stephen Oguntola, said the operations were performed by a 10-man team of experts in the hospital.

He said that post-transplantation observations of all the patients showed that they are all in stable medical conditions and responding well with good prognosis of full recovery from the renal disease. (The Guardian: Text, excluding headline)