The Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital (MAUTH), Yola, has discharged a set of conjoined twins separated by its surgeons.
During the discharge ceremony of the twins on Saturday, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Professor Bakari Girei Adamu, said the hospital found it worthy to celebrate the feat of successfully separating the twin boys because the procedure was performed by surgeons who are not only all Nigerians but internal surgeons of the hospital.
“It is heart warming that all the professionals are domiciled here,” he said, adding that the vision of the hospital is that Yola rises further as a centre of medical tourism, bringing people from across the country and beyond, with no resident ever needing to go out of Yola for medical care.
A former CMD of the hospital, now a paramount ruler, Dr Aliyu Damburam, the Ptil Madagali, who was chairman of the occasion, said that by its latest separation of conjoined twins, MAUTH Yola has once again proven itself to be a pillar of advanced medical care.
Dr Damburam, recalling that this is the hospital’s sixth separation of conjoined twins since 2013, said the institution is steadily reducing the incidence of foreign medical tourism.
The lead surgeon of the team that performed the separation of the latest conjoined twins, Professor Auwal Muhammad Abubakar, who is the immediate past CMD of the hospital, said the story of successful separation of conjoined twins in the hospital and other centres across the country is proof that Nigeria has the capacity if the right training is imparted and necessary facilities made available.
DAILY POST reports that the latest separation of the conjoined twins, Hassan and Hussain, was performed last month, March 9, after which they were placed on post-separation care.
The twins, brought from Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State, received all their care — post-surgery examinations and observation, the surgery itself, and post-surgery care — free of charge, thanks to funding provided by the hospital management, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, and other sources.
