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Our driving objective at UPTH is to become a world class quartenary hospital, using cutting edge technology and highly developed human resources to render excellent medical care/services to the good people of Rivers State and beyond in-order to markedly reduce the number of patients seeking medical tourism abroad.

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UROLOGY UNIT

Prof. John E. Raphael FACS, FICS,FWACS, SIU fellow(USA), MBBS

Head of Unit

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

Established in 1989, the Urology Unit offers urological services to most of south southern Nigeria including Rivers, Bayelsa, parts of Abia, Delta, Imo and Akwa-Ibom States. When the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital is fully functional, the Urology Division performs 20.4 to 29.5% of all surgical procedures in the hospital (Eke/Sapira/Echem 2007). It also provides compulsory urological surgical training for undergraduate medical/dental clinical students of the University of Port Harcourt, compulsory post-graduate training for the resident Doctors from University of Port Harcourt Teaching

Hospital, RSUTH Port Harcourt, Federal Medical Centre Yenagoa, FMC ASABA, UUTH UYo and Niger Delta University Yenagoa.

The Urology Unit currently operates as a self-accounting autonomous department, (The Urology Division, of University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital).

The patient population is 90-120 per clinic session and more than 600 consultations per week. The staff strength is about 40. Below in broad outlines are details of staff strength, facilities and services currently available in the Urology Division.

Specialties include general urology, paedicatric urology, uro oncology, urogynaecology, andrology, endourology, male infertility

VISION STATEMENT: TO PROVIDE SPECIALIZED UROLOGY SERVICES TO CLIENTS OF ALL AGES AND SEXES IN A SERENE COMFORTABLE ENVIRONMENT WITH CARE AND EMPATHY, WITH THE GOAL OF COMPLETE PATIENT HEALING.

LIST OF PROCEDURES

OPEN PROSTATECTOMY
TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE
NEPHRECTOMY
DIRECT VISION INTERNAL URETHROTOMY
URETHROPLASTY
PYELOPLASTY
PYELOLITHOTOMY
URETHROSTOMY
VVF REPAir
PUV ABLATION
EXPLORATION FOR UNDESECENDED TESTES
INGUINAL ORCHIDECTOMY
HYPOSPADIA REPAIR
BIOPSIES
SUPRAPUBIC CYSTOSTOMY
EXPLORATION AND BLADDER REPAIR
RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY
URETHRAL CATHETERIZATION
TRANS URETHRAL RESECTION OF URETERAL PATHOLOGIES
CYSTOSCOPY
TRANSURTEHRAL RESECTION OF BLADDER TUMOR

DAILY ACTIVITIES OF THE UROLOGY DIVISION

MONDAY:

Seriously ill Patients;
Review of previous week’s Emergency Services, Admissions,
Discussion of Elective/Emergency Operation Lists.
Urology Out-Patients Clinics:
Demonstrations/Teaching of Medical Students/Residents.
Pre-operative Ward Round
Medical Students Ward Clerking/Ward work.
Uroflowmetry

TUESDAY:

Main Theatre Operations –
Open/Endoscopic Procedures, Demonstration for Medical Students
Call Duty/Medical Students/Residents Clerking

WEDNESDAY:

Postgraduate presentation/Clinicopathologic/
Radiologic Conference (8-10am)
Consultants Ward Round
Seminar/Tutorial Demonstrations to Medical Student/Resident
Doctor’s
Individual Medical Student’s ward patient clerking
Call duty
Ongoing Research/Journal Review

THURSDAY:

Residents’ Ward Round/call duty
Minor Urological Procedures; Demonstrations to Medical Students by Resident doctors. Medical Students’ Ward Patients Clerking.

FRIDAY:

Call Duty; Departmental Seminars, Proposal/dissertation review
Ward Round/Mortality Review.

SATURDAY:

Call Duty/Medical Students/Residents Patients Clerking.

SUNDAY:

Call Duty/Medical Students’ ward work, patients’ clerking

Notable Successes

COMMENCEMENT OF RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
COMMENCEMENT OF LASER UPPER TRACT SURGERIES

The Urology Unit operates a robust practice utilized by many patients. The patients who often have co-morbidities offer an array surgical diseases in patients. The lecturers are grounded in general surgery prior to specialization in urology. Thus, many students flock to the urology unit in their free time even when they have not been posted to Urology. On each routine operation day, the unit lists up to 7 patients for various urological operations. The existing facilities, both personnel and infrastructure are enough for the unit to function as an autonomous department of the University of Port Harcourt. In addition, the facilities in UPTH are currently being expanded. This will further create room for further expansion of urological services and training.

For more details on the scope of work see

UPTH Service Charter.
For Protocol of service; see UPTH Service Charter.

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