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The EATSET clinical trials just concluded in Nigeria have saved 84 (eighty-four) women whose lives were threatened following massive intra-peritoneal bleeding from acute rupture of the fallopian tube as a result of ectopic pregnancies. The studies were a follow up of the successful Alpha trials which took place at the Department of Experimental Medicine of the University of Geneva in 1996.

The trials were carried out at the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, the General Hospital (Ayinke House),and at the Military Hospitals in Lagos and Kaduna.

The trials were coordinated and collated/analysed by Dr. Ayemoba of the Department of Haematology of the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital between 1999 and 2001 Dr. Oviemo Ovadje was the principal investigator.

Results of the trials will be discussed at the International Conference for Military Medicine (ICMM) at the Sun City in South Africa in September 2002.

EMINENT WORLD REKNOWNED SCIENTIST FOR EATSET WORKSHOP.
- By Fregson Roberts- Sierra-Leone

Top world rated scientist from Europe, USA, India, South Korea and Nigeria will collaborate with the EATSET project in organizing an extensive and far reaching scientific seminar and workshop in Abuja, Nigeria that will provide the fulcrum for delivering Nigeria into the Biomedical research and technological psyche of the new age. The EATSET workshop scheduled for August 2002 will also attract eminent industrialists from, India and South Korea amongst whom are Sagae Precision, , Medi-Hut Industries, Jinhwa of South Korea; Hyderabad Dies and Moulds and MRK Healthcare Industries of India. These companies are individually working with the EATSET project of Nigeria on a south-south collaborative arrangement to assist Nigeria in acquiring the know-how for medical manufacturing in the drive towards boosting the productive aspects of the Nigerian economy through increased productivity. Colonel Ovadje, inventor of the EATSET has continued to pursue a program of transfer of medical technology to Nigeria with the support of the Nigerian Army. The Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Alexander Ogomudia, had earlier given a promise of total support to issues of professional excellence arising from activities of officers and men of the Nigerian Army.

Key lectures are to be delivered by Prof F. Nicholas Jacobs (FACHE), the President and CEO of Windber Medical Centre and Research Institutes of the United States of America, Prof. Mbaya Kankwenda of the UNDP and Prof Ibironke Akinsete, chairman, NACA on issues of biomedical research,; Sustainable Development and the quest for Safe Blood Transfusion and HIV control in Africa
respectively.

Other visiting guest lecturers are Dr. Richard Somiari, Associate Professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Dr. Tzoren Aydin, Bioinformatics Director Drexel University Philadelphia & Director Whitaker Foundations, USA. Others are Dr. Sonny Ohia, Assoc. Dean, School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha. N.E. USA and Professor Michael Liebman, Director, computational Biology, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute & Professor of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania Cancer Centre, Philadelphia, USA; All top experts will discuss the place of biomedical research and bioinformatics in solving health problems of Africa and developing countries.

Other eminent scientists expected at the seminar are, Prof. Osato Giwa Osagie of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Prof. Martins Aghaji, College of Medicine, UNTH - Enugu, Prof. F. Okonofua, Dean College of Medicine, Uniben, Brig Gen. Edowande, Director General Defence Industries, Brig. Gen. (Dr.) S.O Njoku and Col. (Dr.) OO Ovadje, both of the Nigerian Army Medical Service. Others are Dr. I Nnadi, of the Scientific Equipment Development Institute, Dr. Obiaga DG. NASENI and Dr. Okongwu DG NOTAP all of whom are committed to the industrial and technological development of Nigeria.

President Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR , President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria whose government has continued to promote a culture of development and productivity in academics and industries is proposed to declare the seminar/ workshop open as special guest of honour. Prof A Nwosu, Hon Minister of Health and Prof. Mbaya Kankwenda of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will co-chair the occasion. Dr. Yumkella of UNIDO and Chief Kola Daisi are proposed to be special Guests of honour during the business meetings between the foreign companies and the industrial sessions of the seminar respectively. The Honourable Minister for Science and Technology will declare the workshop closed on the 10th of August.

It is also expected that officials of the World Health Organisation, World Intellectual Property Organisation and ARCO Petrochemicals and members of the diplomatic community will grace the occasion which will hold at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, FCT in early August. This occasion will witness the full and successful commercialization and launching of the EATSET Blood Transfusion device.