US GOVERNMENT CELEBRATES ANOTHER NIGERIAN DOCTOR AGAIN

Once again, a Nigerian pediatric surgeon, Professor Oluyinka Olutoye has put Nigeria on the global map for good reasons of course. 

The United States is making celebrating Prof. Olutoye for performing a very rare surgical operation.

He, alongside his surgeon partner performed the delicate surgery on a 23-weeks old foetus who was removed from the mother’s womb, operated upon and returned to the womb to heal and continue to grow until the baby girl was born at 36 weeks.

The baby suffered from a tumor known as ‘sacrococcygeal teratoma’, a tumor that develops before birth and grows from a baby’s coccyx, the tailbone.

Doctor Olutoye who received his medical degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun state south west Nigeria and his Ph.D. in anatomy from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia in the United States shared his experience from this rare surgical feat and suggestions on how Nigeria can harness the talents that abound in the country’s medical space.