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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