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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, the Nigerian medical doctor who operated on an unborn baby in the United States of America.
Oluyinka Olutoye, a 1988 medical graduate of the University of Ife, Osun State successfully removed tumour from a baby in her mother’s womb, a feat which has brought honour to Nigeria.
Senior Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Senator Abike Dabiri-Erewa in a statement on behalf of the Federal Government, said that the Nigerian Government and people were proud of Olutoye, who earned his PhD in anatomy from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, U.S., in 1996.
Dabiri-Erewa revealed that Olutoye and his partner, Dr. Darrell Cass of the Texas Children’s Hospital, successfully carried out the surgery on a 23-week-old unborn baby in the USA.
The statement reads, “The baby, Lynlee Hope, who suffered from a tumour known as Sacrococcygeal Teratoma, was removed from her mother’s womb, operated on, and returned to the womb. The baby got healed and continued to grow until she was finally delivered at 36 weeks.’’
Dabiri also stated that the President received the news of Olutoye’s feat with excitement, fulfilment and was looking forward to meeting him.
She also expressed joy that a Nigerian has further projected the image of the country in good light, stating that Nigerians in the Diaspora are great potentials in all sectors.
According to her, “Nigerians are a great people, making greater positive impacts in all fields of human endeavour in the Diaspora. Dr. Olutoye’s feat is one of such testimonies.”
Olutoye is a co-Director of the Texas Children’s Fetal Center, and fetal surgery team member, as well as a general pediatric surgeon. He is a member of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society and a Fellow of the Surgical Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Surgeons.
He is also a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons
- Dayo Emmanuel with Additional reports from NAN
