The Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) has commenced maggot therapy to put an end to diabetic amputation in patients. Maggot therapy is a type of biotherapy involving the introduction of life, disinfected maggots (fly larvae) into the non-healing skin and soft tissue wound(s) of a human or animal for the purpose of cleaning out the necrotic (dead) tissue within a wound (debridement) and disinfection. The spokesperson of the hospital, Hauwa Muhammad Abdullahi, in a statement, said so far 15 patients had been treated with the therapy and discharged. She said a Nigerian,...