The Afe Babalola University Multi-System Hospital (ABUMSH) in Ado-Ekiti has successfully performed the first Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (EVAR) in Nigeria.
The procedure was carried out by the hospital’s multi-disciplinary team of experts, led by Dr. Hammed Ninalowo and assisted by Dr. Yemi Johnson and Dr. Dave Dhiren on a patient with abdominal aortic aneurysm.
The institution’s Corporate Affairs spokesman Tunde Olofintila, announced this in a statement yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.
The statement said prior to the breakthrough, EVAR had not been done anywhere else in Nigeria or in West Africa.