ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s first successful mechanical heart transplant tookplace at the National Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases (NICVD) onMonday.
According to a private news channel, achieving this medical milestone, thedoctors transplanted the mechanical heart into 62-year-old patient NafeesaMemon.
Nafeesa’s heart was only 15 percent functional before the surgery. DrPervez Chaudhry led the transplant team members, while the team alsoincluded American doctors.
Pervez Chaudhry said that an artificial heart costs more than Rs100 million.
He said that after the mechanical heart transplant, the patient’s conditionis out of danger.
Generally, heart transplant operation requires five hours.