MAUTH Surgeon Separates Conjoined Twins
By Ojoma Yusuf,Yola
Modibbo Adamawa University Teaching Hospital (MAUTH), Yola, successfully separated four-month, two-week-old conjoined male twins.
The surgery was led by Prof. Abubakar Auwal, a paediatrician and paediatric surgery expert. Auwal, Professor of Paediatric Surgery and former Chief Medical Director, said the three-hour operation marked the sixth successful conjoined twins separation in the hospital’s history by the experienced surgical team.
He extensively detailed that the twins were joined at the abdominal region, but the team successfully separated them.
“In this hospital, this is the sixth separation, though we have like two in Maiduguri,” he pointed
The surgeon further pointed out that the hospital had the necessary equipment and general support to handle critical pediatric cases.
