Some Isreali surgeons, whom the Head, OAUTHC cardiac surgical team and consultant cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Uvie Onakpoya, said were their foreign partners, also joined the cardiac surgical team. The theatre has surgical tools, an operating table, laboratory, lamps, ECG machine, digital blood pressure monitor, drug store, disposal room, heart-lung bypass machine and anaesthetic machine. Beyond the non-invasive procedures, the doctors checked the baby’s blood pressure for every heartbeat and the pressure in the heart per second. The surgeons stopped breathing for the child so that they could open the heart and repair the holes in it. The problem of preventing others to use the theatre when cardiac surgeries are ongoing will no longer be there.

Source: Punch March 16, 2019 23:48 UTC