Medical Mission Performs 20 Surgeries At Children's Hospital
Umer Jamshaid Published March 28, 2018 | 08:08 PM
A 14-member medical mission performed 20 cardiac surgeries and interventions at Children's Hospital and Institute of Child Health Lahore in last 2 days
LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Mar, 2018 ) :A 14-member medical mission performed 20 cardiac surgeries and interventions at Children's Hospital and Institute of Child Health Lahore in last 2 days.
This was stated by Dean Children Hospital, Prof Masood Sadiq in a medical briefing. The CEO of the Pakistan Children's Heart Foundation Farhan Ahmed was also present at the briefing. The key feature has been the use of ECMO (Extra-corporeal membrane Oxygenation) on a child after surgery whose heart stopped working.
This has been used for the first time in any public sector hospital in Pakistan. This mission is visiting Pakistan organized in collaboration with Pakistan Children's Heart Foundation. The medical mission includes cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, Intensivists, anaesthesiologists, nurses, respiratory therapists and technicians from different countries mainly Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Canada and USA.
Nationalities. Few of the members include Dr. Salahuddin Ahmad, Chief of Cardiac Surgery having 20 years of experience in his career and right now he is working in Hamad Medical Qatar since 2012.
Dr. Younes Boudjemline, Paediatric Cardiologist & Director of the Catheterization Laboratories, Paediatric Cardiology, in Sidra Medicine Qatar having 15 years of experience in career in Paris France.
Dr. Masood Sadiq further informed that the Medical Mission will perform cardiac surgeries and cardiac interventions in Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology Faisalabad for the next 3 days. All the mission members have come on their own expense, he added.
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