The Management of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), has granted a permanent employment opportunity to the couple whose conjoined twins were separated by the specialists in the teaching hospital.
It is recalled that a multi disciplinary team of medical experts in the teaching hospital, with the assistance of the Kwara state government, performed a successful surgical operation separating the conjoined twins in May 2021.
Addressing journalists in Ilorin, the Chairman Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC) of the UITH, Dr. Louis Odeiga, said that the essence of the job opportunity was to enable the couple take care of the babies to realize their potentials in life.
He said the couple were jobless when the conjoined twins were born, adding that the couple were now working in one of the health facilities of the teaching hospital in New Bussa, Niger state.
Dr Odeiga explained that a philanthropic organization in the country, facilitated by Centre for Democracy, Research and Development of the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, made a financial donation for upkeep of the twins for the next five years.
He called for the establishment of new and well equipped hospitals to meet the health care needs of the populace.
ALI MUHAMMAD RABIU
