Kelina Hospital has performed 250 prostate surgeries using the advanced and non-invasive Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP) procedure.
The medical director of the hospital, which operates from two facilities in Lagos and Abuja, Dr. Celsus Undie, stated this during a news briefing in Lagos to mark the hospital’s 15th anniversary.
He said, “Performing 250 HoLEP surgeries for patients with prostate problems without giving blood to more than a handful of them is a big deal. One of those prostates measured 550g in size. Nothing apart from HoLEP or open surgery can handle that. But we did it safely with HoLEP.
“At the moment, HoLEP is the most common surgery we do. The type of prostates we see in this country are so big that TURP is not the best for them, as it cannot remove enough prostate, and the patients may need to return to theatre again in the future.
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“Also, the patients have to be on catheter for longer times after TURP. The prostates in this country are so big that HoLEP is the best for them.
“The American Urological Association and the European Association of Urology both recommend HoLEP as the best for prostates that are more than 80 to 100g in size. The second most common surgery we do is Laser Lithotripsy for Kidney Stones. Urology is our main discipline.”
He said the hospital has also performed 5,000 surgical operations without a single mortality in its operating room since its inception in 2008.
He said aside from urological and general surgery procedures, it also receives patients for laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gall stones, knee replacement surgery, laparoscopic hysterectomy for uterine fibroids, Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (ENT), neurology, paediatrics, and pulmonology, among others.
Undie said in 2012, the federal government recognized the hospital’s efforts by awarding it a pioneer status in minimally invasive surgery.
“In 2012, we went on record as the first hospital to perform laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in Nigeria. Both patients that had the first surgeries are still alive and well,” he added.
