Cardiac Surgeons

Cardiac surgeons to visit Port Moresby

The team from SAL Hospital, India, will be in Port Moresby and will be operating on patients who require complicated cardiac surgeries like coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), left ventricular repair, valve replacements, atrial septal defect (ASD) and ventricular septal defect closure, PDA closure, bental procedure, etc…

Visiting surgeons to conduct open heart surgeries

From the internationally reputed SAL Hospital, Ahmedabad, India, Dr Anil Jain and his highly experienced team – Dr. Rajan Modi, Dr.Vishal Gupta and Dr Naman Sastri – successfully undertook seven complex surgeries at PIH.

In a statement, PIH said the team arrived in Port Moresby on September 5 and will be available till the 9th.

“This is as per the plan for the next set of patients (eight so far) and to check up on these patients. All the patients were from different parts of Papua New Guinea,” said the Hospital.

More life-saving cardiac surgeries conducted at PIH

A team of four specialists from India, three cardiac surgeons and one cardiac anaesthesiologist made this possible through a partnership with PIH.

The team including a back-up group from the host hospital began almost back-to-back operations since April 2.

The final surgery was completed yesterday, April 5.

Dr Vishal Gupta said the outcome has been very satisfactory.