The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital has performed its first successful open-heart surgery in the hospital.

Chief Medical Director/Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Prof Ikpeme Ikpeme, while disclosing this in a statement said, and I quote, “Today, Wednesday 15th September 2021, at 6.43 pm, history was made in our UCTH when the first-ever open heart surgery was performed in our hospital and the patient safely wheeled out to our Intensive Care Unit", end of quote.

Ikpeme noted that the hospital was offering those surgeries at 30 per cent of their real cost.