The University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital has performed its first open heart surgeries on two girls aged seven and 15.
UITH Chief Medical Director, Prof Abdulwaheed Olatinwo, during a press briefing in Ilorin on Thursday, said UITH performed the operations on Wednesday in collaboration with medical partners from Apollo Hospital Chennai, India, adding that the patients were in a stable condition.
Olatinwo said the partnership would expose UITH patients to the highest quality of surgical care comparable to that obtainable anywhere in the world.
He added that it would facilitate skills transfer to the hospital’s cardiac care team such that subsequent surgeries would be entirely carried out by UITH medical team.
Olatinwo explained that the Indian medical team, led by Dr. Neville Solomon, offered their services free of charge, saying the free surgeries were performed on children of indigent parents.
Solomon, who is the Head of Department, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Apollo Children Hospital, Chennai, India, said he had performed about 3,000 free surgeries as a way of helping humanity.
He pledged his commitment to assist UITH to maximise the partnership.
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