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He came to international attention when he led a team of medical practitioners to perform surgery on a baby in-utero in a Texas hospital in 2016 and now Oluyinka O. Olutoye, MD, PhD, has been appointed Surgeon-In-Chief at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the U.S.
Olutoye co-led a team of 21 doctors that removed a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a large tumour that grows on the tailbone of a fetus, and then returned the 23-week-old fetus to the mother’s womb to world acclaim.
For the surgery, the mother and fetus were given general anaesthesia and the part of the fetus’ body where the tumour was attached was taken out of the uterus.
Newport News Fire Department and other first responders begin to get COVID-19 vaccine
Newport News Fire Chief Jeffrey Johnson watched some of his firefighters get the first dose of the vaccine on Tuesday. Author: Allison Bazzle Updated: 6:33 PM EST December 23, 2020
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Hampton Roads hospitals are still working hard to get all healthcare workers the COVID-19 vaccine, but now doses are finally flowing to first responders.
Some Newport News firefighters got their first shots and they aren’t the only department.
“It felt like, honestly, there was an end in sight,” said Newport News Fire Chief Jeffrey Johnson. He watched some of his firefighters get the first dose of the vaccine on Tuesday.