Rare surgery saves Nigerian woman’s life
22 Apr 2022
A long and painful battle with gallbladder stones has ended positively for 39-year-old patient Okoduwa, a medical tourist from Lagos, Nigeria. Okoduwa sought treatment at different hospitals in her home country for abdominal pain but to no avail. She finally decided to travel abroad for further treatment and zeroed in on Dubai’s Medeor Hospital. At the hospital, she underwent an ultrasound test to confirm the presence of gall bladder stones. To the radiologist’s surprise, the ultrasound revealed that Ms. Okoduwa had a rare congenital condition called ‘Situs Inversus Totalis’, in which there is a complete reversal of internal organs.