{"id":61517,"date":"2025-02-19T03:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T03:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61517"},"modified":"2025-02-19T03:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T03:50:04","slug":"sakinah-medical-outreach-offers-free-surgeries-for-100-nigerians-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/19\/sakinah-medical-outreach-offers-free-surgeries-for-100-nigerians-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakinah Medical Outreach Offers Free Surgeries for 100 Nigerians in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sakinah Medical Outreach, in collaboration with Medics Across Continents and National Hospital Abuja, has launched a one-week free surgical initiative to provide life-saving procedures for underprivileged Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the launch, Vice-Chairman of Sakinah Medical Outreach, Prof. Aisha Abubakar, announced that over 100 patients would benefit from surgeries, including urethral and prostate procedures, hernia repairs, and lipoma removal.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the surgeries, the initiative aims to enhance patient education, post-operative care, and capacity-building for local medical professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in 2009, the organization has facilitated life-saving treatments for over 13,000 individuals, investing over N150 million in medical and surgical interventions.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Martin Sherif of Medics Across Continents emphasized the importance of collaboration in tackling kidney-related conditions, while Dr. Ayodeji Salman, Chairman of Sakinah Medical Outreach, noted that beneficiary selection was conducted in partnership with tertiary health institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative runs from February 16 to 21 at National Hospital Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Sakinah Medical Outreach, in collaboration with Medics Across Continents and National Hospital Abuja, has launched a one-week free surgical initiative to provide life-saving procedures for underprivileged Nigerians. Speaking at the launch, Vice-Chairman of Sakinah Medical Outreach, Prof. Aisha Abubakar, announced that over 100 patients would benefit from surgeries, including urethral and prostate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61519,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61517\/revisions\/61519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}