[Graphic Image]Bemgba Akaayar For Surgery At BSUTH ,As Govt Official Attempts To Exploit Case For Personal Gain.

According to Bemgba Iortyom,A medical investigation conducted at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH) on one Mr. Bemgba Akaayar, the man with the abnormal tumour-like growth on his back, have indicated that it is not a case of Cancer and he has already been booked for Surgical operation at the hospital to remove the growth.

The cost of the operation has been fully paid for by donations made by kind-hearted Nigerians from within and outside of Benue State following appeals launched through the social media for support for the peasant farmer who has lived with the ailment for over ten years.

The operation which was billed to have been performed today, Friday, 16th October, 2015, had to be shifted to next Friday due to the fact that the patient, who is diabetic, suffered a rise in sugar levels and had to be put on drugs to bring the level under control before the operation could be performed.

Mr. Akaayar is so far responding well enough to treatment and the team of Surgeons at the hospital led by Prof Bito have assured that the operation will be conducted successfully at the Hospital which, according to the lead Surgeon, is fast growing in success rate and breaking new grounds in tertiary health-care delivery, a purpose for which it was established.

Meanwhile, facts have emerged that a top official of the Ortom administration in the medical profession, who hails from the same locality as the patient, and who completely ignored Mr. Akaayar while he suffered with the strange ailment over the years, has now started making secret attempts to have the patient transferred to the National Hospital, Abuja where the government official had previously worked.

The attempts by this government official in this regard, it has been revealed, are born of the fact that he may be feeling embarrassed that the patient, who had approached him severally over the years for assistance, all to no avail, is about to have his ailment treated without his (the government official) input, a fact which is not likely to help his standing in his community.

But the moves of the government official are considered by some as not only self-seeking, but also against the interests and opportunity for growth of BSUTH which is on the brink of breaking new ground in surgery with the case of Mr. Akaayar, an opportunity which will be lost should the government official succeed in taking the patient to the National Hospital, Abuja.

A senior medical practitioner in the state, who preferred anonymity, posited that it would be procedurally incorrect to move a patient from a hospital in the course of progressive medical attention such as Mr. Akaayar is getting at the BSUTH, as according to him, such a change of hospitals should more appropriately be the result of referral action resulting from the need for higher facilities and expertise, which is not yet the case in this situation.

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