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Dr Uchechi Iweala has become the first to perform a robotic spinal surgery in Maryland, USA.
The Abia born surgeon, who hails from Ohuhu in Umuahia North LGA, is the son Dr Okonjo Iweala.
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By this feat he has broken medical record in far away United States.
Dr Uchechi Iweala, successfully performed a navigated lumbar spinal fusion using a robot, the first in the history of mankind in USA
Credit: News Gazette