Category: Medicine
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Eko Hospital; Nigeria’s fore-most private multi disciplinary specialist hospital, founded in 1978 by joint Chief Medical Directors-A.C Eneli, S.F Kuku and A.A.A Obiora whose surnames provided the hospital’s name: ‘E’for Eneli, ‘K’ for Kuku and ‘O’ for Obiora. The hospital has made many giant strides. First, it is the only public quoted hospital in Nigeria,…
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Abayomi Oshin; first African to be trained as a physiotherapist. Oshin started the Physiotherapy department in University of Ibadan in October 1966 and degree programme is offered. Before he left in 1990, over 300 had graduated with degree certificates. Some of them became professors in the field, working all over the world. Born in Ijebu-Ode…
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Ebola virus in 2014 claimed about 11,000 lives in countries across Africa, including Nigeria. It all started on July 20 when an Asky Airline flight originating from Liberia landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. One of the passengers, a Liberian diplomat, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, collapsed and was rushed to the First Consultant Medical…
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IGBOORA is settlement in Ibarapa Central Local Government of Oyo State reputed for a long time to have had the greatest number of twins in the state, as every household can boast of having at least one set of twins. Igboora is also believed to have the largest number of living twins in the…
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Taiwo Malumi; Nigerian medical doctor, Ilaje born and University of Ibadan-trained Malumi berthed the first air ambulance service in West Africa when he established Medic Air, first air ambulance in Nigeria in 1994 after successfully turning a four-bed space hospital to 60-bed space. Malumi’s Funtai Hospital and Maternity Homes in Port-Harcourt, River State capital, was…
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Yemi Adesokan; Nigerian scientist who developed an innovative form of diagnosis which could let doctors quickly and easily pinpoint features of a patient’s infection. The method can, for example, help determine if infection is resistant to certain antibiotics, and prescribe the most effective treatment using DNA. This has been particularly used to successfully treat drug-resistant…
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Ilesanmi Abiodun; Nigerian Physician and professor of medicine. He is a recipient of the National Merit Award in Hospital Administration. He is also a recipient of two National Honours (OON and NPOM). Professor Ilesanmi Abiodun supervised the commencement of renal transplant, corneal transplant, IVF and open heart surgery (which is yet to be fully sustained) in…
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Ogunlesi Theophilus Oladipo, Professor of Medicine; the first to be so appointed in the University of Ibadan medicine department, taking after pioneer professors Alexander Brown and three others who were seconded from Britain when Ibadan was to host an annex of the University College of London in 1948. Ogunlesi was inspired into the medical profession…