The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) says 10 patients benefited from free cardiothoracic surgeries in the ongoing Lagos State Free Open Heart Surgery Mission at the hospital.
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of LASUTH, Prof. Adewale Oke, made the disclosure at a media briefing at the hospital on Friday in Lagos.
Cardiothoracic surgery is a specialty that involves operation on organs in the chest including the heart, lungs and blood vessels.
It helps to treat conditions which include a hole in the heart, tumours in the heart and lungs and diseases of the heart valves.
The surgeries were done by a team of surgeons and cardiologists in the hospital in collaboration with Cardiostart, a U.S. based NGO.
Oke commended the NGO for its role in making the surgeries free and helping to build the clinical skills of the LASUTH team.
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