The Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital (MAUTH) in Yola has separated six sets of conjoined twins over the past 10 years. Professor Abubakar Auwal, the hospital's Chief Paediatric Surgeon, disclosed the figure on Saturday during the discharge ceremony for a recently separated pair. He described the latest surgery as a significant milestone in the hospital's paediatric surgical programme. The procedure was carried out by a multidisciplinary medical team at MAUTH. No complications were reported in the post-operative recovery of the latest twins. The hospital has not disclosed the ages or names of the twins involved in any of the six surgeries. Each separation was performed within the 10-year period ending in 2025. Professor Auwal attributed the success of the surgeries to improved local expertise and collaboration among specialists. He noted that conjoined twin separations require extensive planning, imaging and surgical precision. The hospital remains one of the few in Nigeria with the capacity to perform such complex procedures.
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