{"id":1151502,"date":"2022-07-17T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T11:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/17\/osinbajo-undergoes-successful-surgery-for-fracture\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T11:11:35","slug":"osinbajo-undergoes-successful-surgery-for-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/17\/osinbajo-undergoes-successful-surgery-for-fracture\/","title":{"rendered":"Osinbajo Undergoes Successful Surgery For Fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doctors who performed the surgical operation on the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to treat the recurrent pain caused by a fracture in his leg have concluded the procedure, and it was successful.<\/p>\n

The Vice President\u2019s spokesman, Laolu Akande, confirmed this in a statement on Saturday following an earlier announcement that Professor Osinbajo was scheduled to undergo a surgical procedure.<\/p>\n

According to him, the Vice President is alert and well after the procedure at the Duchess International Hospital in Lagos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, was admitted to the Duchess International Hospital GRA, Ikeja, Lagos, today on account of a fracture of his right femur (thigh bone), possibly related to a longstanding injury associated with a game of squash,\u201d stated Dr Adedoyin Dosunmu-Ogunbi who is the medical director of the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a surgical operation performed by a team of specialist doctors, including Dr Wallace Ogufere (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon), Dr Om Lahoti (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon), Dr Babajide Lawson (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon), Dr Ken Adegoke (Consultant in Anaesthesia & Critical Care), Dr Oladimeji Agbabiaka (Consultant Anaesthetist), and Dr Adedoyin Dosunmu-Ogunbi (Consultant Physician & Medical Director).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe operation was successful, and he is expected to be discharged within the next few days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Osinbajo had also announced that he would undergo a surgical procedure via his verified Twitter account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Yemi Osinbajo Doctors who performed the surgical operation on the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to treat the recurrent pain caused by a fracture in his leg have concluded the procedure, and it was successful. The Vice President\u2019s spokesman, Laolu Akande, confirmed this in a statement on Saturday following an earlier announcement that Professor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}