The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State on Monday successfully carried out its first open heart surgery to correct a leaking heart valve in a 19-year-old secondary school leaver.
The surgery which lasted about four hours was the first to be performed by any teaching hospital in Nigeria. It was carried out by the hospital in conjunction with a team of surgeons from Tri-State Cardiovascular Delaware, United States of America, led by Dr. Kamar Adeleke.
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the UCH, Prof. Temitope Alonge, noted that the hospital was moved to embark on the exercise as a way of alleviating the hardship being experienced by Nigerians who had one heart related problem or the other.
According to him, UCH being the first teaching hospital in Nigeria should take the lead in critical areas of medicine and that this propelled him into ensuring that a surgery as complex as an open heart surgery took place in the hospital.
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