The Chief Medical Director of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Professor Lawal Khalid, has disclosed that

the hospital will carry out its first open heart surgery by the end of this September.

Khalid told newsmen yesterday that the hospital had set up a cardio-thoracic centre with a state of the art facility to carry

out the open heart surgery which, he said, would be the first to be done in the northern part of Nigeria.

He said the hospital would carry out the surgery in collaboration with experts from the University of Nigeria’s hospital which

is a national centre for open heart surgery in the country and another University in Ghana.

The up-coming surgery, he said, was a culmination of many years of careful planning and upgrade of the capacity of the hospital.

The CMD also said ABUTH was expanding its linear accelerator treatment centre for the treatment of cancer patients.

“The hospital records 600 new cases of cancer and between 1500 to 1800 referral cases annually. This high figure makes it

imperative to expand our facility as we are committed to ensuring that we give our patients the best possible treatment

available. The hospital is widely known for its effective service delivery in the area of cancer treatment and it will continue to

work harder to maintain the feat,” he said.

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