As the global community celebrates International Day of Radiology today, the Head of Radiology Department of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, Dr. Chike Kanu says radiology remains the heart of the medical sector.
Dr Kanu who further explained that if is important to delivery of improved medical services and care also remarked that people have started to appreciate the indispensable roles of imaging unlike in the years back.
He commended the state government for the numerous state-of-the art facilities it had provided to the hospital and appealed on the government to provide other remaining machines needed in the Radiology department of the hospital for enhanced healthcare service delivery in the state.
On his part, a Consultant Radiologist and an Associate Professor of Radiology at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Dr Michael Araonu while explaining that radiology has tremendously increased the quality of care and treatment of patients, reminded government at all levels of the need to improve the health sector of Nigeria especially as it concerns department of radiology in all government hospitals in the country, as according to him it will help in revamping the economy of the nation and ensure seamless healthcare services to the people, as it will drastically reduce the rate at which Nigerians travel abroad for medical care.
Contributing, a Consultant Radiologist with Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi and a Senior Lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Dr. Samuel Udobi said that imaging is very important in the medical world as it enables the health practitioners dictate and know the right treatment to administer on a patient, and encouraged people to consult a doctor whenever they notice any abnormality on their body for timely dictation and treatment, to avoid complications.
International Day of Radiology is an annual event held on every 8th November, with the aim of building greater awareness of the value that radiology contributes to safe patient care and improving understanding of the vital role radiologists and radiological technologists play in the health sector.
X-rays, MRI scans, ultrasound and numerous other medical imaging technologies, as well as the eye-catching images associated with them, are known to many people, but the exact purpose and value of these services is not widely understood, hence the institution of the international Day of Radiology by the European Society of Radiology, ESR, which hopes to alert the world to the stunning medical, scientific and even artistic possibilities of medical imaging, and the essential role of radiologists in the healthcare team.
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