Tovihoto Ayemi inaugurating the newly installed Lithotripsy equipment at Dimapur Hospital on February 2. (Morung Photo)
DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 2: Parliamentary Secretary for IT&C, Science & Technology, Technical Education and Taxes, Tovihoto Ayemi called upon healthcare personnel to be compassionate with patients in the process of treating them. “Our job in curing the patients should be accompanied with compassion,” he said after inaugurating a new installed equipment, Lithotripsy at Dimapur Hospital on Sunday.
Lithotripsy is a medical procedure used to treat kidney stones. It uses shock waves to break up stones not only in the kidney but also gall bladder or liver.
Being the first of its kind in Dimapur, the machine would soon replace surgical procedures to remove stones from human body especially in Kidney. He expressed hope that the new equipment would go a long way in meeting the needs of the patients from Dimapur and other places as well. Unlike other research centres and hospitals that sometime holds up patients for an extended period of time for research purposes, Tovihoto said, institutions which are primarily treatment hospitals should waste no time in referring patients elsewhere if there was no likely treatment available with it.
“Sometimes we become too preoccupied with the disease of the patient that we forget to have concern for the patient,” he said. He underscored compassion as an essential component of high-quality medical care in today’s technological world of medicine.
Tovihoto urged healthcare personnel to be committed to understanding the patient as a person, respecting him as an individual and show compassion for his/her discomfort.
Guest of honour, Dr. H.K. Nagaraj Prof & Chief Unit, department of Urology, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College & Hospital Bangalore also spoke at the programme. Management of Dimapur Hospital has informed that there would be free consultation for kidney patients on Monday at the Hospital. Rev. Dr. Yehevi Jimo, Pastor, Thahekhu Village Baptist Church said the dedicatory prayer.
