Dr. Titus Okunlola, a US-based physician, gave a brand-new ultrasound machine to the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital on Sunday. The hospital is now a maternity and child support center located in Malumfashi, Katsina State.
Alhaji Tijjani Muhammed-Aminu, the doctor childhood buddy presented the donation as a way of showing gratitude for the facility’s role in saving his life in 1978 while he was a student.
Muhammed-Aminu mentioned that in 1978, Okunlola, an Osun native and student at the Government Secondary School in Musawa, Katsina State, was unwell and eventually passed away.
He described how he was taken unconscious to the Malumfashi hospital, which was then close by, for treatment of his meningitis, which manifested as a high fever, vomiting, stiff neck, and an agonizing headache that persisted for a few days. Eventually, “The kind staff at this hospital nursed him back to health when he was rendered unconscious and practically dead for days.”
After completing his secondary education at Musawa, the doctor, according to Muhammad-Aminu, went to Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife. He subsequently practiced medicine for a while in Lagos before moving to America.
He continued by saying that the movement caused him to lose contact with Malumfashi and the school, but he was able to get in touch with several of his classmates via social media, who recalled his illness and informed him that the hospital is still operational.
Dr. Abdukazeez Shehu, the hospital’s chief medical director, expressed gratitude to the physician for his community service and he pledged to use the device for the benefit of the hospital and the community at large.