The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, started primordially as the Enugu General Hospital in the 1950’s and by 1967 became the Enugu Specialist Hospital. It metamorphosed into a Teaching Hospital in 1970.

 The Department of Otorhinolaryngology came into existence in 1974 after the senate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, gave approval for its establishment.  Before that, it was a unit in the Department of Surgery.  Dr. Anyaegbunam administered the unit from 1955 – 1973 as the pioneer ENT Surgeon while Dr. Gibbs from Glasgow Infirmary, United Kingdom, was a visiting consultant.

Dr. B.C. Okafor, who would later become the doyen of Otorhinolaryngology in Nigeria, joined the consultant ENT Surgeon in 1974, and by 1^st October 1983 became a Professor of Otorhinolaryngology – the first indigenous professor of otorhinolaryngology in Nigeria. 

Dr. D.K. Murkharjee, was employed to the post of Senior Lecturer/Consultant (Otorhinolaryngology) in 1973.  He became the acting head of department of Otorhinolaryngology from 1974 – 1979.  The other staff in the evolution of the department are: Dr. M.N. Obiako and Dr. Olu Ibekwe who were employed as consultants in 1977 and 1978 respectively; Mrs. Murkharjee, an audiological staff, 1974; Mr. Nwaogbo an Audiometrician, 1977.

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