Infant Mortality: Medical Expert Seeks Improved Surgical Services for Children – THISDAYLIVE

Professor and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at the College of Health Sciences of the University of Jos, Lohfa Bali Chirdan, has called for improvement in the low-resource setting in surgical services for children to avert high infant mortality rate in the country.

While noting that the surgical conditions could cause disabling morbidity and mortality, the don added that some of the surgical conditions are easily amenable to surgical intervention no matter how complex they may look as timely presentation and treatment of the surgical problems are essential for the child’s normal development and functional life during adulthood.

“I will continue to contribute my own quota of training and mentoring, research, provision of surgical services, when adopting newly available technology within our constrained setting to this group of individuals I refer to as the small, the smaller, and the smallest.”

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