By Fawaz al-Otaibi
(with photos) KUWAIT, May 16 (KUNA) - A team of surgeons from Adan Hospital have just operated on five heart patients using valve-replacement methods hitherto untried in Kuwait, said the hospital director Dr Marzouq al-Azmi on Thursday.
He said the heart valve replacements had not been done in Kuwait before, noting that these replacements work just as well as natural ones the patients were born with. Assisting in the five operations was head of heart operations in Canada's McGill University.
Adan hospital has recently opened its cardiac surgery unit with assistance from the Canadian university, said Dr al-Azmi, adding that the hospital is currently adopting a new procedure in receiving urgent medical cases, where the seriousness of a case determines its attention by physicians on duty not its position in the cue line as was the practice previously.
While he decried the unavoidability of having crowded emergency rooms at hospitals worldwide, he said he was doing his best at Adan to alleviate crowdedness at its emergency services. (end) fz.ajs KUNA 161524 May 13NNNN