Daijiworld News Network – Mangalore (VM)

Mangalore: Jul 13: Fr Muller’s Medical College Hospital achieved yet another milestone in its long and illustrious history of service to patients. A fully equipped, state-of-the-art cardiac surgery department is now functional in the hospital.

A 76 year old local man with multiple severe blocks in his heart blood vessels underwent successful coronary bypass surgery here on Jul 11. The operation was performed on the beating heart without use of the heart lung machine and three bypasses were constructed. The operation was carried out by a team of doctors and nurses headed by Cardiac Surgeons Dr A G Jayakrishnan and Dr Laxminarayanachar, Cardiac Anesthetist Dr Riaz Ashraf, and Cardiologist Dr H Prabhakar.

The patient is recovering well in the intensive care unit.

Fr Lawrence D’Souza, hospital administrator said that the Hospital has full fledged cardiology and cardiac surgery departments with the latest in cardiac catheterization laboratory and cardiac surgery operation theatre.

The hospital will be able to undertake all forms of cardiac surgeries, bypass surgeries, valve replacement surgeries and surgery for children’s heart defects at affordable costs to everyone, he stated.