First Heart Surgery Performed at Babcock Teaching Hospital

BABCOCK University, Ogun State performed its first heart surgery at the institution's teaching hospital. This milestone was achieved last Thursday by its doctors. The operation lasted six hours.

The first beneficiary of this feat is a 34-year-old woman, who brimmed with excitement as she calmly walked through the door with gaiety into the theatre for a life saving venture in the human hands of cardio thoracic surgeons, Professor Kamar Adeleke, Dr. Michael Sanusi, Dr. Mudashiru Lawal and Dr. Edward Anderson, all resident doctors.

According to the institution, there are other 15 critical care personnel in the operating theatre to provide specific required services. They included perfussionists, cardiac operations nurses, internists and anesthesiologists.

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