#YouthDay: Celebrity doctor Reza Mia is NO ordinary doctor

“Designing the face and designing a plane is the same thing. It’s like physics, engineering and art, they are all the same. Working with someone’s face, especially the aesthetic side of it, it’s knowing what pretty is, what looks nice, the same applies to designing planes. Although it looks like different things the primary skills that you need are the same, it’s just applying it in different ways,” says innovator and celebrity aesthetic doctor Reza Mia.

His clients includes former Generations star and businesswoman Sophie Ndaba, television presenter and model Shashi Naidoo, radio and television host DJ Warras and 5FM’s Poppy Ntshongwana and pop star Tamara Dey.

Dr. Mia’s pioneering spirit and artistic eye extends beyond medical and aesthetic world to aerospace engineering.

Having graduated from Wits with a medical degree at the age of 23, Dr. Mia is ready to take on another challenge — he wants fly his own business jet with vertical takeoff and landing.

“I have always liked planes and I did flying lessons but I stopped to finish my Finance Masters. I will go back and finish, so I will get my flying licence and be fly his own planes”.

A business jet with vertical landing, is this another flying car innovation?

“This is different to a flying car, because a flying car is made to fly short distances, while a vertical business jet is made to fly like a normal jet, it can cover the whole continent and beyond’’.

Dr Mia is truly fascinated about this new venture. He is beaming with excitement as he announces the latest phase of his plane.

“I have just finished the lift fan de-risking exercise into the most important part which the part where it gives you the vertical takeoff and landing. So now I’m confident beyond any doubt that this plane will fly and do the vertical take off, you know the main aim is to make it take off like a helicopter from grass, helipads or yachts and fly like a business jet.”

Dr Mia said after he discovered that the vertical take off is possible, he decided to speed up the development process. He then started his own aerospace company Pegasus SA limited, which is a public unlisted company.

“I’ll release shares as I have to ,so we can fund the development and speed up the design before someone from overseas beats us to it or tries to copy us but we have patent in the US, UK and South Africa which are the main places where you have to protect the design, so if someone from China or India copies the design they won’t be able to sell it to any of those markets because of the patent protection.”

When it comes to the world of aesthetic medicine, Dr. Mia does does his best through, learning and research to ensure he stays ahead of the game. He recently launched two innovative methods of convenience for his patients.

Hallowell , small injections, that makes collagen and elastin and break down pigmentation marks. It tightens skin and makes it more dense and makes it smoother.

“With hallowell we use ultrasound,it’s new. We working with physiotherapists to do to things that doctors wouldn’t do alone, they can’t do it alone because they are not doctors. For example jaw clenching, they will relax it and I will put botox in the stubborn trigger points, they help me identify them. Same with tension headaches, injuries and joints muscle tears.

Biofibre is the artificial hair that looks like real hair.

“We put it one hair at a time with a special kind of needle and we make people look like they have hair when they don’t have hair , it’s fibre that you can’t tell, this is the hair, this is the fibre, it look the same, it just doesn’t grow but then you don’t have to cut it,” says Dr Mia.

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​Outrage as doctor performs brain surgery on wrong patient in a national hospital

There has been an outpouring of rage in the social media after a neurosurgeon at Kenya’s largest hospital performed brain surgery on the wrong patient.
The Kenyatta National Hospital, which admitted the horrific error has suspended the doctor, as well as two nurses and an anaesthetist, according to a statement on Friday, March 2, 2018.

Sicily Kariuki, the Health Minister, also suspended Lily Koros, the chief operating officer of the hospital, over the blunder. Lily Koros had suspended the four medics.

•Lily Koros, COO of Kenya National Hospital, was suspended after mix-up in brain surgery

It was the latest scandal to hit the hospital in recent weeks, after allegations of staff sexually assaulting patients, and the theft of a baby.

An investigation by Daily nation Newspaper revealed that two men had been taken to the hospital on Sunday.

The two men were wheeled into the hospital unconscious. One needed head surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain, while the other only required nursing and medication to heal a trauma swelling in his head, medically known as closed head injury.

Hours into the surgery doctors discovered there was no blood clot in the brain of their patient, and that they were, in fact, operating on the wrong man, the newspaper reported.

Lily Koros, The hospital’s chief operating officer, issued a statement announcing the suspension of four medics who were at work on that night. The hospital also expressed regret over the incident.

“The hospital deeply regrets this event and has done all it can to ensure the safety and well being of the patient in question,” read the statement from the hospital, adding the patient was “in recovery and progressing well,” Koros said.

Kenyatta National Hospital is Kenya’s oldest and largest hospital, and also serves as a teaching hospital.

“The management has suspended the admission rights of a neurosurgery registrar and issued him with a show-cause letter for apparently operating on the wrong patient,” Koros said.

The fact that Koros was referring to the operation as “apparent” is probably an indication that the hospital was unwilling to publicly admit the error, and also that some of its procedures may have put the welfare of patients at risk.

Source: 247nigerianewsupdate.co

In China Deceased doctor’s body organs save 6 lives

His wife and parents decided to complete his final wishes and donated Song’s liver, lungs, kidneys, corneas and skin tissue to save patients’ lives and help two other people see again.

Organs of a doctor who died from a sudden illness were on Thursday donated by his relatives and they have saved the lives of six people.
Song Wei, 34, a trainee doctor at Shanghai Changhai Hospital in China, suffered an acute brainstem hemorrhage on May 31 and was pronounced dead on Wednesday.
His wife and parents decided to complete his final wishes and donated Song’s liver, lungs, kidneys, corneas and skin tissue to save patients’ lives and help two other people see again.
His wife described him as a doctor who had healing the wounded and saving the dying as his life mission.
The local Red Cross Society said Song was the city’s 195th organ donor and 57th this year.

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Source: Pulse

Olusegun Mimiko We have facilities to treat Buhari in Ondo – Governor’s aide says

Akinbobola said the President’s decision to travel abroad for treatment will project Nigeria’s health sector as incompetent.

Akin Akinbobola, the Special Adviser to Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko,
on political and mobilisation matters, has slammed President Buhari for travelling abroad to treat his ear disease.
Akinbobola said the hospitals in Ondo state have all the medical facilities needed to treat the President.
He also said the President’s decision to travel abroad for treatment will project Nigeria’s health sector as incompetent.
Akinbobola said “Good and very up-to date facilities abound in Nigeria that can handle such ailment. Ondo State today is proud to have state of the art Tertiary medical institutions. it’s worthy of note to mention that the medical village in Ondo gets referrals from abroad.
“Mr. President could have used Ondo State medical facilities for treatment. except he is biased about Ondo state being a PDP state.”
The Governor’s aide also said the President would have patronised a Nigerian hospital at a time like this when the rate of the Dollar is high.
It has also been revealed that President Buhari is also suffering from a terrible cough. »

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Source: Pulse.ng

Health Sector Doctors to begin indefinite strike on Thursday, June 9

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) will begin an indefinite strike on Thursday, June 9, 2016.

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) will begin an
indefinite strike » on Thursday, June 9, 2016.
This was disclosed by NARD president,
Muhammad Askira , on Tuesday, June 7, 2016, The Cable reports.
“Sixteen out of 58 federal tertiary institutions or centres were exempted from the initial centre based strike for the commitment of the chief medical director of the hospitals to implement the federal government’s directives,” he said.
“If by midnight on Sunday, June 19, our demands are not met, all the members of the association, including those exempted, would join the indefinite nationwide strike.
“Due to the failure of the government to address the demands of NARD, it has declared a total and indefinite strike.NARD has to take this painful decision in order to highlight the plight of our hardworking members who have had to endure a long period of deprivation and disenfranchisement,” he added.
Meanwhile, civil servants in Ondo and Ekiti States are on strike due to the inability of their respective governments to pay salaries.

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Source: Pulse.ng

The 60 year old Somali man who recently sat for his #final secondary_school_exam wants to be a #doctor

60-year- old Somali student, Ahmed Saney who sat for his final secondary school examination this week wants to be a doctor. His photos while in examination room doing his final paper went viral on social media mainly twitter and facebook with congratulatory messages.
Radio Dalsan team then visited Saney in his school in Balcad outskirts of Mogadishu on Tuesday to document the challenges he is  facing in his dream to be a doctor.
“I dropped out of school in 1965 following economic challenges faced by my family and started tailoring business to sustain them,” he told Dalsan team. “I am happy to be in school now to continue my education to fulfill my dreams,”
He said he want to be a doctor to help people in his village and across the country and needs government support.
“I call upon the government and well wishers to help me achieve my dreams of being a doctor in my country. he said.”
When asked about sitting in the same class with fellow students like his grandchildren, Saney replied
“Education has no age, the most certain is acquiring the knowledge both secular and religious.
He was among 45000 secondary students across the country who sat for the nationalized examination during the second year respectively.

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Source: Radio Dalsan

After 16 hours, Doctors perform first penis transplant in U.S, call it ‘landmark procedure’

Surgeons in Massachusetts General Hospital have performed the first U.S. penis transplant on 64 year old Thomas Manning who had his penis amputated after he was diagnosed with penile cancer in 2012.
The procedure performed on May 8 and May 9, described by the doctors as a “surgical milestone,” is called a gentitourinary vascularized composite allograft, or GUVCA and involves ‘surgically grafting the complex microscopic vascular and neural structures of a donor organ onto the comparable structures of the recipient.
According to the hospital surgeons connected the intricate vascular and nerve structures of a donor penis with those of the 64-year-old transplant recipient. The surgeons said their goals were to reconstruct the genitalia giving it a natural appearance and to re-establish urinary and possibly sexual function.

Doctors said there are no signs of bleeding, rejection or infection and are cautiously optimistic that he will regain function.
“Today I begin a new chapter filled with personal hope and hope for others who have suffered genital injuries, particularly for our service members who put their lives on the line and suffer serious damage as a result,” Manning said in a statement provided by the hospital. He also expressed gratitude to his family and his medical team, as well as to the family of the donor.
“We are hopeful that these reconstructive techniques will allow us to alleviate the suffering and despair of those who have experienced devastating genitourinary injuries and are often so despondent they consider taking their own lives,” said Dr. Curtis L. Cetrulo, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon.

This is the first time such a surgery was happening in the U.S, the first time such a surgery was successfully carried out in the world was in December 2014 at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Source: CNN

Graphic content: Doctors remove giant tumour weighing 15 stone that sat in woman’s stomach for five years

Doctors last Friday removed a giant 15 stone tumour from a woman after living with it for five years.
Kamlesh Devi, 45, from Meirut, in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India left her ovarian tumour for years because her late husband and family feared the treatment would be expensive. Even though she suffered though unbearable pain for years, she agreed with her husband.
Her husband died six years ago and Ms Kamlesh decided to finally see a doctor. She discovered she was entitled to free treatment as part of an Indian poverty scheme.
The surgeons took just three hours to remove the massive tumour, which weighed the same as a large man, from her right ovary.
“She was in severe pain when she came to the hospital. The tumor had started leaking and it would have turned fatal if there was any further delay. Three units of blood were infused during the surgery and then the patient was kept in ICU for a day. She is recovering well and we’re now waiting to the results of the tests taken on the tumour.” said Surgeon Dr A S Jaggi.
“I’ve never seen such a tumor in my whole career. Ovarian tumors are common but never this big. It must be three feet in length and two feet in width, it’s huge. The tumor has now has been sent to a pathology lab for tests.” he added.
Dr Jaggi said that the hospital has also contacted India’s version of the Guinness Book of Records, the Limca Book of Records to see if the tumour qualifies for a recognition.
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Source: Cover Asia Press/Mirror

Surgeon Ted Rummel, is paralyzed from the waist down after his illness.

Even that doesn’t stop him from saving people’s lives.
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