Nigeria: How Nigerian surgeon led team in UK to save seven-year-old with heart outside body

A team of experts led by Dr. Ikenna Omeje, who hails from Nsukka in Enugu State, has performed surgery on Vanellope Hope Wilkins, a seven-year-old girl born with her heart outside her body.

Dr. Omeje is a consultant congenital cardiac surgeon and the Head of Congenital Cardiac Surgery at the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre, University Hospitals of Leicester, United Kingdom.

Vanellope returned to the University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust for a groundbreaking operation….