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Tuesday 10 May 2016

SIX CHILDREN UNDERGO SUCCESSFUL OPEN HEART SURGERIES AT OAUTHC IN NIGERIA

The Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) Ile Ife, Osun State, has carried successful paediatric open heart surgeries on six children including five with holes in their hearts.
The children are said to be from various parts of the country including Ilesa and Ikire in Osun State, Akure (Ondo State), Warri (Delta State), Offa (Kwara State) and Port- Harcourt (Rivers State) and the operations were carried out on them between Tuesday, April 26th and Sunday, May 1st 2016.




According to Chief Medical Director OAUTHC, Professor Victor A. Adetiloye, , an additional 20 children have been slated for June-July 2016 open heart surgeries which the hospital hopes to perform routinely at least quarterly.
“This is an accomplishment of our dreams and visions seeing that this is possible in Ile-Ife,” Adetiloye remarked, even as he commended the medical team comprising cardiothoracic surgeons, led by Doctors Akin Ogunrombi and Uvie Onakpoya, Paediatric Cardiologist – John Okeniyi, an Open Heart Task Force, operating theatre nurses, and a host of other departmental staff of the hospital including the Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, OAU, Ile-Ife who freely donated blood.



Source: Vanguard

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