Doctors at NICVD use new technique to perform heart surgery

The condition of the 12-year-old is stable now, an professor of the National of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), bdnews24. com on Monday. was a patient of septal defect (ASD),” he equipment and budget are challenging in government hospitals. But still we can adding that he is to train others. “I it out of my interest and took costly from abroad. But can show Doctors at NICVD others the ” This procedure is called heart surgery, Sium said.

Surgeons at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) in the capital have successfully completed a minimally invasive surgery, first of its kind at a public hospital in the country, on a 12-year-old girl named Nupur. A team of 10 surgeons, led by Dr Asraful Hoque Sium, chief of the cardiac surgery unit-9 at the hospital, completed the two-hour operation at 11:30am on Sunday. A minimally invasive surgery allows surgeons to use techniques that limit the size and number of cuts, or incisions that they need to make. It is atrial septal defect surgery typically considered safer and quicker than a traditional heart surgery. Before this, only National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh (NHFB) in the city’s Mirpur had conducted such surgeries at a cost of Tk 2. 5 lakh-Tk 3 lakh each, sources said. In case of the NICVD, each patient in a paying bed has to spend only around Tk 5,000 for the operation. For a patient occupying a non-paying bed, the procedure is done free of cost. According to doctors, the cost of a traditional open heart surgery ranges between Tk 2.

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