Kigali, Friday 04th September 2015 - The University teaching hospital of Kigali (CHUK) closed officially intensive surgical outreach program this week, after three months of surgical interventions since june 15th 2015 when the surgical outreach program was launched at Ruhengeri hospital.
Special Surgical Outreach week to finalize this Friday is the last step of the outgoing surgical outreach program designed to overcome the challenge CHUK was facing of long waiting list especially in surgery in department.
During this week, Surgical team has operated all pending cases of patients (about 200 cases) in district or provincial hospitals including pathologies that cannot be operated outside CHUK for technical and logistic purposes.
To decrease significantly the long lasting CHUK surgical waiting list 3 sites have been utilized in outreach surgical program including Ruhengeri, Rwamagana and Ngoma Hospitals.
At the end of this program the department of Surgery together with support services has spend 3 months of intensive surgical interventions where 2174 patients benefited proper treatment from Special Surgical program, 582 cases in remote areas and 974 cases at CHUK classed in Major operations of about 1556 and Minor operations 618.
The Surgical Outreach Program pilot phase is closed officially with positive outcome of using minimum infranstructures and low staff but the result is big…where about about 17 patients where operated per day during the special surgical outreach program.
The purpose of this outreach program is to move towards patients, operate them near their homes and relatives, to take advantages of theater space and hospital wards available in provincial and district hospitals in order to decrease significantly the long waiting list, transfer knowledge to local staff for a better management of patients in the future.
To run smoothly this operation, patients were requested to bring all their medical documents including the diagnosis paper, transfer and medical insurance-“Mutuelle de Sante” .
The management of CHUK would like to inform the public that teams of Surgeons and Anaesthesiologists will continue to work closely to make sure the Surgical Outreach Program come successful whenever it will be necessary.
For More information contact the Public Relations Officer of CHUK, Mr. Pascal MBUGUJE, Phone +25078821077, e mail paccemigb@ gmail.com