The Division of Hospice and Palliative Care, College Faculty Sanatorium (UCH), Ibadan, in collaboration with the health center, has organised a bazaar to commemorate the 2026 International Hospice and Palliative Care Day, calling for progressed ache control and dignified affected person care.
Talking on the bazaar’s opening, UCH Leader Scientific Director Professor Jesse Otegbayo stated it was once unacceptable for sufferers to bear avoidable ache when efficient interventions have been to be had.
He stressed out that palliative care should deal with no longer simplest bodily ache but in addition sufferers’ social and non secular misery.
Otegbayo, who was once represented on the match by way of the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Professor Bukola Adesina, stated each healthcare employee had a job to play in making sure compassionate, person-centred care.
He recommended the dept’s efforts to improve skilled wisdom via coaching and hospital-wide discussions on ache control.
Otegbayo additionally paid tribute to the overdue Professor Simbo Amanor-Boadu, whom he described as instrumental in setting up palliative care at UCH. He advised healthcare employees to maintain her legacy of compassion and dedication to relieving sufferers’ struggling.
The Head of the Division of Hospice and Palliative Care at UCH, Dr Yetunde Oloyede, advised the Federal Executive to enforce current palliative care insurance policies and combine very important products and services into the Nationwide Well being Insurance coverage Scheme to ease the monetary burden on sufferers with critical sicknesses.
Oloyede stated many sufferers, in particular the ones with most cancers, have been financially tired by way of the price of remedy and occasionally struggled to have enough money even fundamental pain-relief drugs.
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She described ache reduction as a basic proper of sufferers and referred to as for progressed get entry to to chemotherapy, surgical treatment, radiotherapy, physiotherapy and different very important products and services.
She additionally emphasized that palliative care will have to deal with sufferers’ bodily, mental, social and non secular must support their high quality of lifestyles.
Oloyede advised the federal government and different stakeholders to improve reinforce programs to be sure that prone sufferers may just get entry to inexpensive, compassionate and dignified care.
The bazaar, tagged the Professor Simbo Daisy Amanor-Boadu Jumble Sale, additionally honoured the overdue professor, who initiated the fundraising process.
An ophthalmologist at UCH, Ibadan, Dr Modupe Ijaduola, described Amano-Bwadu as a mentor, instructor and pillar of reinforce whose hobby for palliative care influenced each her skilled and circle of relatives lifestyles.
Ijaduola, a member of the overdue professor’s prolonged circle of relatives, recalled that Amano-Bwadu constantly inspired more youthful members of the family to pursue excellence of their careers whilst keeping up a wholesome steadiness between paintings, circle of relatives relationships and private construction.
She stated palliative care was once in particular expensive to Amanor-Boadu, who actively promoted the speciality and ensured that participants of her circle of relatives understood its significance.
Expressing satisfaction that the dept was once maintaining the paintings to which the overdue professor was once trustworthy, Ijaduola stated the commemoration equipped a chance to rejoice her contributions and maintain her legacy.
“Palliative care supposed such a lot to her; it was once very expensive to her middle. She driven for it,” she stated.
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