The surgeons at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) on Thursday conducted a heart transplant surgery on a 30-year-old woman, thanks to a donor heart under Jeevandan scheme, the State-run organ donation programme.
This is the first time that a heart transplant surgery was done free of cost in a State-run hospital in Telangana State.
The surgery was carried out by a team of cardio-thoracic surgeons headed by professor and Head, CT Surgery, NIMS, Dr.R.V. Kumar and a team of anaesthetists headed by Head, Anaesthesia, NIMS, Dr. Gopinath.
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