Expert debunks myth about fibroid operation - The Nation Newspaper

A medical expert, Dr. Rosemary Ogu, has allayed fears of becoming barren or dying from surgical removal of uterine fibroids among women suffering from the condition.

She spoke ahead of a free medical outreach programme at which 100 patients will benefit from cost-free fibroid surgical operations in Port Harcourt on Saturday. The event, which will also feature enlightenment talk, free medical screening, consultation and counselling, is organised by the O.B. Lulu -Briggs Foundation in conjunction with the MWAN, Rivers State University Teaching Hospital and its University of Port Harcourt counterpart.

However, Dr. Ogu, a consultant gynaecologist at Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, said there was no room for such fear if the cases were handled by doctors and facilities with requisite skills and equipment, such as the teaching hospitals involved in the programme. She stressed that the teaching hospital where she works has not recorded any fatality, despite carrying out scores of fibroid operations.

She said the foundation was emphasizing on women’s health and uterine fibroid this time, because of the disturbing social prevalence of the disease. “We realised that for every case of diagnosed fibroid, there are still about a thousand more.”

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