Ghanaian doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have chalked a rare feat after they successfully performed a heart surgery without opening the heart for the first time.
According to the report we sighted on Graphic.com.gh, the new procedure which according to the doctors takes between 30 to 35 minutes, is one of the safest procedures to adopt.
The Head of Nursing at KATH, Georgina Afua Sam noted that the feat achieved has been made possible as a result of a collaboration between the hospital and a Chinese Hospital, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital.
In April this year, we signed an MOU with them in China for continued collaboration, capacity building and providing of facilities. For this fifth time, normally when they come, (all the missions) they do open heart surgery and pacemaker.
For this time, they didn’t do any open-heart surgery, they did the valve and the replacement in which the heart was not opened.
This is the first time in Ghana and this time too it was done at the Komfo Anokye Teaching hospital. We are so happy that our cardiologists had the opportunity to do the first pacemaker surgery which had a lot of benefits for the patient”, she said.
