FMC Yola Successfully Separates Siamese Twins
A 26-member surgical team, has successfully separated a set of female co-joined (siamese) twins at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yola Adamawa State. The co-joined twins aged four months old, were discovered at birth, joined in their lower chest to the level of the navel called Omphalopagus.
Prof Muhammad Abubakar, Chief Medical Director, FMC Yola, who led the team for the operation which lasted for four hours on Monday, 14th of this month, said, the bill for the treatment, was sponsored by management of the hospital despite challenges of strike by Joint Health Services Union (JOHESU).
He lauded the surgical team for the break through recorded, despite strike embarked upon by JOHESU nationwide.
“By this breakthrough, it means we can reduce the number of people traveling abroad to seek medical attention. Father of the babies, Mohammed Ramat, from Gamburo Kasuwan Shanu in Maiduguri, expressed joy over the successful separation of his babies.
Ramat, thanked management of the hospital for sponsoring the surgery Kellu Adam, 26, mother of the babies, said the babies were discovered co-joined at birth through cesarean section at a hospital in Maiduguri, Borno State. It would be recalled that the hospital separated a baby born with four limbs.
By: Hussaini Hammangabdo Yola
Leadership News
