The Department of Hospice and Palliative Care, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, in collaboration with the hospital, has organised a bazaar to commemorate the 2026 World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, calling for improved ache administration and dignified affected person care.
Speaking on the bazaar’s opening, UCH Chief Medical Director Professor Jesse Otegbayo mentioned it was unacceptable for sufferers to endure avoidable ache when efficient interventions had been out there.
He careworn that palliative care should tackle not solely bodily ache but additionally sufferers’ social and religious misery.
Otegbayo, who was represented on the occasion by the Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee, Professor Bukola Adesina, mentioned each healthcare employee had a task to play in making certain compassionate, person-centred care.
He recommended the division’s efforts to strengthen skilled data by coaching and hospital-wide discussions on ache administration.
Otegbayo additionally paid tribute to the late Professor Simbo Amanor-Boadu, whom he described as instrumental in establishing palliative care at UCH. He urged healthcare employees to maintain her legacy of compassion and dedication to relieving sufferers’ struggling.
The Head of the Department of Hospice and Palliative Care at UCH, Dr Yetunde Oloyede, urged the Federal Government to implement present palliative care insurance policies and combine important companies into the National Health Insurance Scheme to ease the monetary burden on sufferers with severe diseases.
Oloyede mentioned many sufferers, notably these with most cancers, had been financially drained by the price of remedy and generally struggled to afford even primary pain-relief remedy.
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She described ache aid as a basic proper of sufferers and known as for improved entry to chemotherapy, surgical procedure, radiotherapy, physiotherapy and different important companies.
She additionally emphasised that palliative care ought to tackle sufferers’ bodily, psychological, social and religious wants to enhance their high quality of life.
Oloyede urged the federal government and different stakeholders to strengthen assist techniques to be sure that susceptible sufferers may entry reasonably priced, compassionate and dignified care.
The bazaar, tagged the Professor Simbo Daisy Amanor-Boadu Jumble Sale, additionally honoured the late professor, who initiated the fundraising exercise.
An ophthalmologist at UCH, Ibadan, Dr Modupe Ijaduola, described Amano-Bwadu as a mentor, trainer and pillar of assist whose ardour for palliative care influenced each her skilled and household life.
Ijaduola, a member of the late professor’s prolonged household, recalled that Amano-Bwadu persistently inspired youthful members of the family to pursue excellence of their careers whereas sustaining a wholesome stability between work, household relationships and private growth.
She mentioned palliative care was notably pricey to Amanor-Boadu, who actively promoted the speciality and ensured that members of her household understood its significance.
Expressing delight that the division was sustaining the work to which the late professor was devoted, Ijaduola mentioned the commemoration offered a possibility to have fun her contributions and protect her legacy.
“Palliative care meant so much to her; it was very dear to her heart. She pushed for it,” she mentioned.
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