SRINAGAR: An expert team of doctors from the United Kingdom will perform specialized surgeries at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) during a weeklong workshop here.
Director SKIMS, Prof Showkat Ali Zargar Monday informed that department of Cardio Vascular Thoracic Surgery is organizing the 2nd workshop on Congenital Cardiac Surgery from 16th to 21st June.
The workshop will be organized in collaboration with Healing Little Hearts organization from UK, a registered charity working under the patronage of Dr. Sanjiv Nichani that sends specialist medical teams to perform lifesaving heart operations on babies and children.
Addressing a press conference, Prof Zargar said that a weeklong workshop was conducted in the month of March this year in which 7 patients were operated by the specialist team of doctors supported by doctors from the department of CVTS, SKIMS.
He said that Cardio Vascular Surgeries have been performed since 1982, however, till last year we did not have a separate ICU adding that the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during the inauguration of different projects including Cardio-Thoracic Intensive Care Unit, December last year, was pleased to see the patients who had undergone open heart surgery with good outcome at SKIMS and desired to help the department having pediatric cardiac surgery as a full-fledged specialty.
Prof Zargar said that the Chief Minister personally took keen interest to invite the overseas team of pediatric cardiac surgeons from UK.
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