ORTHOPAEDIC experts at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara, have recorded another milestone in performing a hip replacement surgery, precisely six weeks after achieving a similar feat in knee replacement.

The operation was done on a 29-year-old Ete Erueyin on Thursday, July 5, 2012.

According to Professor Godwin Iwegbu, who led the team of experts in the operation, hip replacement medical condition is usually for the aged, but revealed that the surgery was necessary for young Erueyin, because of the high level of damage of his hip bone, resulting from the steroids he received for the bronchial asthma he suffered.

He explained damage to hip joint was characterised by severe pains, tilted body posture, difficulty in sitting, standing and most of all, walking.

He said that the surgery was done without bone cement, usually required for older persons, adding that with about half a million naira, such operation could be done in DELSUTH as against the over four million naira if done abroad.

Professor Iwegbu, an international consultant surgeon in orthopaedics, said the operation was made possible by the state governor’s decision of contracting practising medical doctors in diaspora, of which he is one, while commending Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for the many health care strides in the state, towards improving health care services.

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