MAUTH Yola successfully separates conjoined twins in sixth historic surgery

The Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital (MAUTH), Yola, has successfully separated conjoined twins.

The infirmary achieved the feat connected Monday, marking the sixth specified process successful the past of the erstwhile Federal Medical Centre, present a teaching hospital.

The twins, some boys, were 4 months and 2 weeks aged astatine the clip of their separation connected Monday afternoon.

The country was led by Professor Abubakar Auwal, a paediatric country expert, who noted that the three-hour cognition marked the sixth palmy separation of conjoined twins astatine the infirmary by the experienced surgical team.

He explained that the twins were joined astatine the abdominal region, but the squad successfully separated them.

“In this hospital, this is the sixth separation, but the squad has had 2 specified surgeries successful Maiduguri,” helium said, referring to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

MAUTH, which was established arsenic a Federal Medical Centre successful 1998, was upgraded successful 2022 to service arsenic a centre of healthcare excellence for the nationalist and arsenic a applicable grooming installation for aesculapian students of Modibbo Adama University, Yola.

Professor Auwal said MAUTH has the instrumentality and enactment to grip captious paediatric cases, offering world-class attraction locally without patients needing to question abroad.

He adde...