UITH Staff Inaugurate Group To Fund Patients' Treatment

Date: 2022-11-24

A partnership among some staff of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) and some individuals formed to raise funds for the treatment of patients with life-threatening ailments in the hospital has been inaugurated.

Speaking at the inauguration of the Palliative Care Patients Support Foundation at the Nightingale Hall of the UITH Ilorin on Wednesday, the president of the group, Dr. Israel Kayode Kolawole, said that, “the majority of our patients are indigent; the rich ones have been rendered poor because of financial burden of care, loss of jobs due to frequent hospitalizations and other challenges of care and stigmatization from their diseases.”

Dr. Kolawole, who said that the Pain and Palliative Care Unit of the UITH was established over 14 years ago to provide care to meet the peculiar needs of patients with Cancer, COVID-19 and other advanced progressive life-threatening diseases, added that “many of the people are living and dying in unrelieved pain with uncontrolled physical symptoms; unresolved psychosocial and spiritual problems, abandoned, in fear, isolation and loneliness.”

The non-governmental organization courted partnership with public-spirited individuals, groups and organizations to harness resources for community participation, saying that personal resources of members of the organization were grossly inadequate to support patients.

“For most of them, it is not the fear of death that is most important. After all, we all are going to die someday. But most people want to die with dignity and in peace. The needs of these patients include relief from pain and other distressing symptoms that constitute suffering in order to improve their comfort and quality of life.

“Since our healthcare system in Nigeria runs on cash and carry basis and patients often have to pay for all treatments from their pockets, many of these patients frequently struggle with the financial burdens related to their care and many are outrightly often unable to meet the personal expenses involved in their care,” he said.

Members of BOT of the group include professionals such as virologists, senior advocates of Nigeria, industrialists, and former Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the UITH, among whom are Emeritus Professor Luke Edungbola, Reverend John Olusola Baiyeshea (SAN), Professor Suleiman Alege Kuranga, Professor Tanimola Akande, Hajia Bolanle Yusuf, and Dr. Israel Kolawole.

The inauguration also witnessed testimonies from patients who had benefitted from treatment and care for the organization.

Source

 


Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwarareports.com     Abubakar Baba     Kayode Ishola     Salami Adekunle     Ilesha-Baruba     Sunday Popo-Ola     IsDB     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Kwara State Fire Service     Olaitan Adefila     Harrison Osauwagboe     Modibbo Kawu     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Kwara State Polytechnic     Rihanat Ajia     Asa LGEA School     Halidu Danbaba     Oloriegbe     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Ndakene     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Moses Salami     BIR     Kwara Poly     Moji Makanjuola     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Okiki     Awwal Jawondo     Joseph Bamigboye     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Mohammed Haruna     Shagari     Simeon Ajibola     School Of Nursing     Muhammed Danjuma     Gbemi Saraki     Haleeman Salman     Idris Amosa Saidu     Doyin Group     AGM Professional Services     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Kuliyan Geri     Shao     Na\'Allah     Computer Based Test     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Haliru Dantoro     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Kazeem Adekanye     SDP     Kwara State Governor     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Salman Jawondo     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Javed Khan     Ile Arugbo     Pacify Labs     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     MAI Akande     National Broadcasting Commission     Sheriff Shagaya     KWATMA     Belgore     Aremu Odolaye     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Christopher Odetunde     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     LEAH Charity Foundation     Yakubu Shaaba     Saliu Tunde Bello     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Matthew Okedare     Saka Aleshinloye     Segun Olawoyin    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Arca Santa     Bolaji Abdullahi     Alao Ayotunde     Belgore     PharmAccess Foundation     Salaudeen Oyewale     Habeeb Saidu     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Kishira     Salman Suleiman     Temi Kolawole     Kale Bayero     Makama     Alabe     Elesie Of Esie     Ayobami Akanbi     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Jide Oyinloye     Isiaq Khadeejah     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     KWIRS     Eleja     Adebara     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Mike Omotosho     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     COVID     ASMAU PLAZA     Olatunde Michaels     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Kwara State Sports Commission     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Islamic Development Bank     BIR     Oro Grammar School     Ola Falade     Pakata Development Association     Idris Garuba     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Lawal Olohungbebe     Owo Arugbo     Quran     Saliu Mustapha     Taofeek Ibraheem     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Ademola Kiyesola     Patigi Regatta     Bukola Saraki     Oke-Ode     Funke Adedoyin     Oniwa     Shururat Olatinwo     Edu     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Ileloke     Ajakaye     Sarah Jubril     Jaiz Bank     Kwara 2015     Pacify Labs     Abubakar Lah     Ahmed \'Lateef     Kehinde Boyede     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Kaosarah Adeyi     Rueben Parejo     SGBN     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     NIPOGA     Makama Of Ilorin     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Ojuekun     Olusola Saraki     Ahmed Idris Mohammed