We’re first Nigerian hospital to perform obesity surgery: AKTH
Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, says it has become the first Nigerian tertiary hospital to conduct an obesity operation on a 60-year-old patient successfully.
A statement by the hospital’s Assistant Director Information, Hauwa Muhammed, said the operation was carried out on the patient (name withheld) who weighed 156 kilogrammes.
It quoted a consultant surgeon in the Department of Surgery, Usman Bello, saying that the patient presented multiple health issues, including hypertension, diabetes, and ischemic heart disease.
“Upon evaluation, a team of doctors from four specialities resolved that the patient needed to undergo laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy to have a relief on his medical condition.
“The patient lost 35kg of his weight at the end of the surgery and 65kg at the point of discharge from the hospital,” the statement disclosed.
It further added that the patient’s weight would return to normal gradually without using slimming tablets.
He called on the obese, to come for the surgery to live healthily.
(NAN)
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