It was another milestone yesterday in Babcock University as the first heart surgery was performed there by its doctors. The operation lasted six hours.

The first beneficiary of this feat in the history of the university is a 34-year-old woman who brimmed with exceptional spirit 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, under God’s divine care. Dr. Anderson led the team for the operations.

Those were not the only ones who were part of the epoch-making exercise. There were other 15 critical care personnel in the operating theatre to provide specific required services. They included perfussionists, cardiac operations nurses, internists and anesthesiologists.

Yesterday’s surgery was a milk valve replacement. Today, another set of patients’ hearts are receiving care from the surgeons’ hearts that care. Dozens other patients are on the roll call and will have their turn as scheduled from now onwards at the Babcock University Teaching Hospital. So, what is going on now at the Tristate Heart and Vascular Centre of the University is not the last of such operations until all afflicted hearts are rid of that which prevents their effective functioning.

Professor Iheanyichukwu Okoro a surgeon and senior vice president of Babcock University, and Mr. Olukunle Iyanda, Vice president, development and strategy also of Babcock University, said the medical feat couldn’t have happened at a better time than this. “This is inspirational and praiseworthy; another achievement by God through mortal men”.http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/babcock-varsity-performs-first-heart-surgery/

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Fantastic news! Wow!! Am impressed!! I hope more private universities would emulate this feat and make it possible for Nigerians to get good quality medical treatment within our country.

May Babcock University (BU) continue to excel! Does anyone have an idea on how much the surgery cost?

laudate:
Fantastic news

May Babcock University (BU) continue to excel! Does anyone have an idea on [b]how much the surgery cost?

You want to go for one? #JustAsking
You can go there and get the real-time info.

I hope this babcock uni is located in the land of the chosen ones- Ndigbo?

Else......! Lols

Anyway! Am impressed that the Surgeons gave God the glory instead themselves!

What a lesson!

Vikkie14:
You want to go for one? #JustAsking
You can go there and get the real-time info.

I don't need one and will never need one, by God's grace. In my spare time, I volunteer for an NGO that conducts medical outreaches. The problem with Nigeria is getting adequate info on where certain types of treatment can be obtained. Even a lot of doctors do not have adequate info in this area.

They send patients off to a teaching hospital for advanced treatment, only for the patient to get there and the machines are NOT working, or the specialist is unavailable. So if there is any available information on a medical centre that has conducted a successful operation, or that has functional equipment, you verify it and file it away for future reference.

Can you imagine telling a patient to leave Abuja and go all the way to Ilishan in Ogun State to first get the cost of fees for the surgery?? What if he does not have enough money to make the trip or pay for the surgical operation? There should be a phone number or something, where more details can be obtained. You never know when it would come in handy. Getting the right kind of info in Nigeria is like searching for a needle in a haystack. BU should have all the relevant info about its hospital on its website, but it does not. How sad.

Wow!!! There is yet hope in our dear Nigeria!!! Such refreshing news...far removed from all the negativity and irrelevant topics making FP nowadays!!!