UNIZIK teaching hospital performs first knee surgery

The Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching
Hospital, Nnewi in Anambra, has performed
its first knee-joint replacement surgery.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria,
this is coming barely two months after the
hospital achieved a similar feat in hip
replacement surgery on three patients.
The Acting Chief Medical Director of the
hospital, Dr. Anthony Igwegbe, announced
the development on Sunday in Nnewi
during an interview with journalists.
Igwegbe, a former chairman of the Medical
Advisory Committee of the hospital, said the
hospital’s aspiration was to become one of
the best teaching hospitals in the country.
Igwegbe said the surgery was jointly
performed by the immediate past CMD of
the hospital, Prof. Robinson Ofiaeli, an
orthopaedic surgeon, and two consultants
from Fortis Hospital, India, Dr. Shalimar Bagh
and Dr. Subhash Jangid.
He said some consultants in the hospital had
been sent to India to acquire new
technologies to render some of the medical
services sought overseas.
Igwegbe said, “The hospital acquired a lot
of equipment with its internally generated
revenue to carry out the surgery and
different other surgeries.
“More equipment will be acquired just as
the collaboration with foreign medical
experts will continue and more cases will be
treated by the hospital.”