VIJAYAWADA: A team of doctors at Vijayawada New Government General Hospital (GGH) successfully performed the hospital’s first open heart surgery on one A Krupakar (50) of Ganguru, at the newly opened Cardiothoracic unit. The surgery was performed on March 4 and the patient has recovered.
Disclosing the details before media persons on the hospital premises here on Saturday, hospital superintendent Dr Y Kiran Kumar said that cardio thoracic surgeon Dr Prasanth Prabhu and his team performed the surgery on a freelance basis, since there is no fulltime cardiac surgeon available at the hospital.
Kiran Kumar said that the patient came to the hospital during the last week of February and complained of chest pain and gastritis. Doctors conducted various medical tests, including an angiogram and decided to perform an open heart surgery on Krupakar.