The University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital in collaboration with an India-based hospital, Apollo Children's Hospital, said that it had successfully carried out an open-heart surgery on two out of four patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases in the hospital.
Speaking with journalists on open-heart surgery programme of the university today, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of UITH, Professor Abdulwaheed Olatinwo, said the patients, Aishat Jibril and Kamalat Balogun, were both females, aged seven and 15 respectively.