High-end surgeries that stop travelling abroad have started at the University of Port Harcourt (UPTH) Premium, a unit established four months ago at the Centre of Excellence in Port Harcourt.
UPTH authorities have revealed that over 500 sensitive surgeries have so far taken place in the past four months, most of them being what they termed ‘high-end’ surgeries that could have been taken abroad.
Inside sources told BusinessDay that there can hardly be any medical condition warranting foreign trip that can no longer be handled at the UPTH Premium, including minimal invasive surgeries (surgeries with little or no bleeding).