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Posted by God'swill Ofigo on March 10, 2026 0
The Modibbo Adama College Instructing Hospital (MAUTH), Yola, has successfully separated conjoined twins.
The hospital achieved the feat on Monday, marking the sixth such process in the historical past of the previous Federal Medical Centre, now a educating hospital.
The twins, each boys, had been 4 months and two weeks previous on the time of their separation on Monday afternoon.
The surgery was led by Professor Abubakar Auwal, a paediatric surgery skilled, who famous that the three-hour operation marked the sixth profitable separation of conjoined twins on the hospital by the skilled surgical workforce.
He defined that the twins had been joined on the belly area, however the workforce successfully separated them.
“On this hospital, that is the sixth separation, however the workforce has had two such surgical procedures in Maiduguri,” he mentioned, referring to the College of Maiduguri Instructing Hospital.
MAUTH, which was established as a Federal Medical Centre in 1998, was upgraded in 2022 to function a centre of healthcare excellence for the general public and as a sensible coaching facility for medical college students of Modibbo Adama College, Yola.
Professor Auwal mentioned MAUTH has the tools and assist to deal with vital paediatric circumstances, providing world-class care domestically with out sufferers needing to journey overseas.
He added that the newest surgery was performed freed from cost, with assist from the Tertiary Training Belief Fund (TETFund), which funded sources and interventions for paediatric surgery at MAUTH, Yola.
Dr Salihu Bakari, TETFund Director, Centre for Excellence, mentioned MAUTH is certainly one of 30 centres nationwide to obtain substantial funding.
“I’m very completely happy as a result of that is precisely why the centre was established, to present abnormal individuals world-class medical consideration domestically,” Bakari mentioned.
The Chief Medical Director of MAUTH, Professor Adamu Bakari, counseled the medical workforce and all employees for the profitable surgery.
He highlighted the hospital’s designation as a TETFund centre for glorious paediatric surgery nationwide, noting that sufferers from throughout Nigeria now patronise MAUTH for advanced procedures akin to conjoined twin separation.
Shuaibu Jibir, father of the twins, who’s from Taraba State, expressed gratitude for the care supplied, revealing, nonetheless, that his spouse, the twins’ mom, tragically died shortly after giving delivery.
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