Fabian Anene Ositadimma Udekwu // ⓘ (1928 – 17 November 2006) born in Enugwu Agidi, Anambra State was a Medical Doctor, Cardiac surgeon.
[1] Prof. Udekwu attended St. Charles Teachers Training College Onitsha where he was retained as a faculty member after graduation in 1947, teaching mathematics and geography.
[3] Subsequently, he attended the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, graduating as a medical doctor in 1957 and specialising in general cardiac and thoracic surgery in 1964.
[3] Despite several unsuccessful attempts at sourcing funds to establish a modern surgical department from many organisations in the United States, United Kingdom, Scandinavia and through church aid, he was able to source funds from the Enugu campus by the contributions of individual Nigerians to build the operating theatre and buy the equipment needed to establish facilities for open-heart surgery in Nigeria.
[12] Professor Udekwu led the team of surgeons that performed the first successful open-heart surgery in Nigeria in 1974[13] which was the first of its kind in black Africa.