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| Manmohan's bypass surgery on, |
| Manmohan's bypass surgery on, to last for 7-8 hours
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| INDIA
, 24-January-2009
0:2:49 AM |
| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is undergoing a coronary bypass surgery on Saturday, a major operation which would last for nearly eight hours.
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was wheeled into the operation theatre at 5:30 AM. The opeartion finally began at 7:15 AM and is expected to last for 7-8 hours," said Dr Sudhir Vaishnav, cardio-vascular thoracic surgeon with the Asian Heart Institute (ASI).
He said an 11-member team from the ASI led by Dr Ramakant Panda had flown down from Mumbai for the operation on the 76-year-old leader at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.
The team comprises three more doctors and the rest are support staff.
"The name of Dr Panda was proposed because he specialises in arterial grafting and redo of bypass surgery and beating heart surgery. These are sophisticated surgeries and need high-level of expertise," Vaishnav said.
While no foreign doctor was involved in the surgery, Dr Vaishnav said that Dr Shamin K Sharma from Mount Sinai medical centre in New York had come down for angiography performed on January 22 and has since left.
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