Tag: Unilorin Teaching Hospital

Alleged Corruption:Crisis brews in Federal Teaching Hospitals, as Minister usurps CMDs appointment

Aminu Imam

Crisis is currently brewing in some Federal Teaching Hospitals over the decision of the Minister of Health to unilaterally appoint Chief Medical Directors, (CMDs). Affected hospitals include: Irua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State, Lagos Teaching Hospital and Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. It was gathered that contrary to the rules of appointing new Chief Medical Directors, the Minister, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has allegedly cornered the exercise to himself for alleged selfish interest. A source disclosed that rather than use the Boards of the hospital to interview and select from the…

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Conjoined female twins separated at Unilorin Teaching Hospital

Aminu Imam

Hospital employs struggling parents A set of conjoined twin girls have been separated at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), making it the first successful operation of its kind in the hospitals recorded history. Conjoined twins, means the babies shared one umbilical cord and were joined at the chest and abdomen; they were only 127 days old at the time of their surgery. According to the parents, Hammed Taiwo, 33, and Suleiman Tawakalitu, 25, of New-Bussa in Niger State, who work as an aluminum fabricator and a hairdresser respectively,…

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