KABUL: For the first time in the country, doctors at Kabul Medical University Hospital have successfully performed a heart bypass surgery, spokesman of the Ministry of Higher Education Hafiz Ziaullah Hashemi, said in a statement on his X account.
“This complex and rare operation was successfully carried out by the assigned doctor at the Kabul Medical University Hospital on a 50-year-old patient,” he said.
This is the first time such an operation has been performed in a government hospital in the country, said the statement adding, that the health condition of the patient after the operation was reported improving.