Nigerian Surgeons Separates Conjoined Twins After 26 Hours (See Photos)

It has emerged that three Nigerian born surgeons were among the team of 12 surgeons in the US, who successfully separated a conjoined twins (pictured with their mother before the surgery), who shared a common diaphragm, pelvis, lungs, intestines and lining of the heart and were joined at the chest almost head-to-head. See photos of the Nigerians below;

A no mean feat, incidentally, the three Nigerians, Professor Oluyinka Olutoye, a paediatric surgeon, Dr Toyin Olutoye, an anaesthesiologist, and Dr Oluyemisi Adeyemi-Fowode, a paediatric gynaecologist, received their Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Professor Oluyinka (1st pictured right) and Dr. Toyin (2nd pictured right) are couple, and both work with Dr Oluyemisi Adeyemi-Fowode(pictured left) at Texas Children’s Hospital where the former is a Co-Director

The successful operation that took them and their 9 colleagues 26 hours is currently being celebrated worldwide.