Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun

Farfesa Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun (6 GA watan Janairu shekarar 1935 - 22 Satumba 1995), Obituary, Journal of Neurological Sciences ma'aikacin bincike ne kuma likitan kwakwalwa daga Okemesi, Jihar Ekiti, Najeriya.  An san shi don gano dalilin cutar neuropathy na wurare masu zafi ataxic, ya kasance memba na kungiyar Pan African Association of Neurological Sciences da kuma mai ba da shawara na farko da kuma mai bincike a kan cututtuka na wurare masu zafi. 

 Ilimi 
Ya yi karatun firamare da sakandare a Holy Trinity School, Ilawe Ekiti, Emmanuel School, Ado Ekiti da Christ's School Ado Ekiti. Bayan ya kammala karatunsa na sakandare, ya karanci likitanci a Kwalejin Jami'ar Ibadan a lokacin yana da alaka da Jami'ar Landan.  

 Bincike da aiki 
A cikin shekarar 1963, Farfesa Harold Scarborough ya gayyace shi don ya shafe shekara guda a Makarantar Magunguna ta Welsh a Cardiff. Independent (newspaper) obituary of B O Osuntokun 19 Sept 1995

Ya shiga ma'aikatan bincike na Kwalejin Jami'ar Ibadan a shekarar 1964, a matsayin abokin binciken likitanci. Duk da haka, da samun haɗin gwiwar Smith and Nephew, ya tafi ƙasashen waje don ƙarin karatu a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Henry Miller da John Walton, dukansu fitattun likitocin neurologists a Newcastle a kan Tyne.  Bayan ya ɗauki lokaci a Newcastle, ya ɗauki aiki a Asibitin Kula da Cututtukan Jiki, da ke Queens Square, London kafin ya dawo Najeriya a shekarar 1965. A Jami'ar Ibadan ne ya kaddamar da sana'a mai inganci, yana aiki a kan neuro-epidemiology da Clinical da bincike neurology musamman nazarin cutar hauka tsakanin 'yan Najeriya da Amurkawa na Afirka. 

A ƙarshen shekarun 1960s, ya binciki lamuran ataxic neuropathy a Epe inda mazauna sukan cinye kashi na rogo mara kyau tare da ɗan ko babu kari.  Sa'an nan kuma ya tsara taswirar cututtukan cututtuka na neuropathy kuma ya iya yin nazarin ainihin abubuwan da ke tattare da ciwon daji. Ya gano cutar ta samo asali ne saboda maye gurbin cyanide. A lokacin, an yi kaɗan fiye da kulawar asibiti ga cutar. Nasarar da ya samu wajen gano tushen cututtukan ataxic neuropathy na wurare masu zafi ya ba shi yabo na gida da na duniya a cikin jama'ar likitoci. 

A tsawon rayuwarsa, ya yi rubuce-rubuce na ilimi da dama a kan ƙwararrun binciken da ya yi a kan cututtukan cututtuka na wurare masu zafi, kuma ya kasance shugaban likitancin Jami'ar Ibadan sannan ya zama babban jami'in kula da lafiya na asibitin koyarwa na jami'ar, UCH. Ya rasu a shekarar 1995 kuma an binne shi a mahaifarsa Okemesi jihar Ekiti. 

Farawar ciwon neuropathy bayan shan rogo mara kyau, saboda maye gurbin Cyanide, an san shi da Alamar Osuntokun, kuma ana amfani da shi a cikin Laccoci da Bulletins na Likita na Afirka, amma ba a san shi sosai ga ƙasashen waje da na Afirka ba. 

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