A US-based hospital, PreHab Diabetes Services, has offered to train Nigerian doctors in the US on treatment of diabetes. The hospital also pledged to build hospitals in different geo-political zones of the country to help manage high burden of diabetes in the country.
The effort will ensure prompt diagnosis, treatment of patients, while doctors trained by the hospital will acquire more skills needed to deal with the disease, Founder/Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Robert Tate, said at a National Diabetes Symposium in Abuja recently. Tate told National Mirror: “We’ve developed a Nigerian diabetes initiative.
We want to take Nigerian physician to the US to train them, to bring them back so that they can train other Nigerians. After we do that, we want to develop clinics here, equipped to American medical standard to be able to treat patients. And, through the clinics, we will provide all testing supplies and medicines. “Training for the programme will take three months. Each group will consist of three physicians to train for three months and then come back. When they return, we will send another group and it will continue. We are collaborating with the (Federal) Ministry (of Health) They will set up a committee to nominate the physicians, and then, they will go. “The Association on Diabetes states that without testing, without proper diagnosis, without medicines, it is impossible to treat any patient with diabetes,” he added.
He said the programme would be carried out in collaboration with the Diabetic Association of Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Health. “Our ultimate goal is to have a clinic in all of Nigeria’s key strategic regions. We will also have a teaching hospital where we can teach not only Nigerian physician, but physicians around Africa.
We want Nigeria to have authority in diabetic management in Africa. The ultimate of the programme is to have a decrease in cases of diabetes in Nigeria, as he informed that his facility had been able to manage diabetes in America that there had been no amputation of patients’ legs for 30 years.
By: Marcus Fatunmole
National Mirror News
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