Doctors at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, in Bauchi have successfully separated a set of conjoined twins.
The twins were separated under a ‘Doctors on the Move Africa’ an ongoing free medical outreach in Bauchi.
Iliya Habila the Senior Special Assistant to the Speaker on Media confirmed the successful operation via Facebook along with pictures.
The medical outreach was sponsored by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Barrister Yakubu Dogara.
Habila said: “Conjoined twins have been successfully separated by Doctors on the Move Africa in the ongoing free medical treatment sponsored by the Rt. Honourable Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi.”
The free medical outreach, which began on Monday, is expected to run for one week and is open to all citizens of Bauchi State.
During this time the hospital offers: outpatient consultations and medical check-up with drugs, ultrasound scan, reading glasses and cataract operations.
Others are laboratory tests for diseases such as diabetes, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, public health education on malaria, hygiene, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and Lassa fever, free general and gynaecological surgeries.
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