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THIS WEEK: Cheers over first bypass heart surgery at Uganda Heart Institute
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Doctors at the Uganda Heart Institute registered a milestone when they conducted the first ever highly specialized bypass heart surgery on a Ugandan patient, Edward Kayondo. A team of 14 Ugandan medics comprising cardiologists, perfusionists, anesthesiologists and theatre nursing officers took part in the operation that lasted 10 hours.
Dr William Manyilirah, the lead consultant cardiothoracic surgeon, said the surgery was made possible after the heart institute acquired advanced equipment. He told Daily Monitor in an interview: “The coronary artery bypass grafting is done in three stages; one involves transferring grafts from one part of the body. The grafts are veins that we get from the legs and arteries from behind the breastbone.”
