Onoh celebrates Nigeria’s Surgery Record Breaker, Uchechi Iweala

President Bola Tinubu’s supporter, Dr Josef Onoh, has extended greetings to Dr Uchechi Iweala, the Nigerian-America Surgeon, who recently broke records for being the first surgeon to perform a robotic spinal surgery in Maryland, USA. The 37-year-old Dr Iweala successfully performed a navigated lumbar spinal fusion using a robot, the first in the history of […]

President Bola Tinubu’s supporter, Dr Josef Onoh, has extended greetings to Dr Uchechi Iweala, the Nigerian-America Surgeon, who recently broke records for being the first surgeon to perform a robotic spinal surgery in Maryland, USA.

The 37-year-old Dr Iweala successfully performed a navigated lumbar spinal fusion using a robot, the first in the history of mankind in the USA.

Dr Iweala is a renowned orthopedic surgeon specializing in spine surgery who graduated from Harvard College, earning MD/MBA from Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School He had residency training in orthopedic surgery at George Washington University and Fellowship-trained in spine surgery at New York University/NYU Langone Medical Center.

He was Board-certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and a Member of the Lumbar Spine Research Society and North American Spine Society. He currently practices at Metro Orthopedics & Sports Therapy in Potomac, Maryland, and is affiliated with hospitals, including Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center, Holy Cross German town Hospital, and Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center.

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Born to Nigerian-America Neurosurgeon, Ikemba, from Ohuhu-Umuahia Abia state, his mother is Nigeria’s former minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization.

Onoh said sadly that since Nigeria’s independence, the youths were told how they will become the leaders of tomorrow, how education was the greatest asset, but those golden words never came to pass.

“The youth never became the leaders of tomorrow, education lost its value, we lost our hope, and the youth of Nigeria became the lost hope of a great nation. We celebrated and honored looters and despised achievers. We created a new generation of aggressive entitled youths without hope of a better tomorrow, stained with tribal sentiments, quick to temper, without vision beyond the ownership of the latest iPhone and number of social media followers for validation.

“Until young extraordinarily talented individual like Dr Uchechi Iweala and very few others like him became a beacon of hope. These are the caliber of people who deserve national honor awards by our nation rather than looters and politicians who are awarded national honours which becomes a medal of shame,” Onoh said regrettably.

He stated that the young, talented individuals have achieved greater heights that are higher than becoming presidents of a nation and became the new messiah of humanity.

“I’m glad to be alive to see the new John the Baptist of medical science and humanity. I urge the President to bestow him with our highest national honor. It’s time to change the narratives, it’s time to positively inspire the young generation, telling them that hard work pays; if we truly want to make Nigeria great again. it’s time to collectively rebuild our nation.”