Nigeria records second successful kidney transplant
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – Nigeria has recorded a major medical breakthrough by performing successful kidney transplantation.
Nigeria Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu
The medical feat was achieved by a team of surgeons of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, Lagos the commercial nerve centre of the nation.
It was the second successful kidney transplantation in Nigeria, by Nigerians.
An official source at the LUTH told newsmen that the four-hour operation “went very well”, noting that the kidney recipient “was responding positively” at the hospital.
Shout-Africa.com gathered information that the authorities in LUTH would make a formal announcement of the medical breakthrough at a news briefing on Thursday.
Nigeria’s first kidney transplant was conducted on a thirty-one -year-old Suleiman Usman in September 2010 by the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), northern Nigeria in collaboration with the Bayero University Teaching Hospital, Kano also in the northern part of the country and the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
The kidney was donated by his brother, Abubakar Usman at the university’s Kidney Centre.
“With the successful transplant, there would be no more need to send kidney patients for transplant in foreign countries,” UMTH noted.
