A private super speciality hospital in Bangalore has performed a rare surgery, claimed to be the first of its kind in medical history, on a 14-year-old Pakistani boy, suffering from Pulmonary Atresia.
Tauseef Ahmed underwent the complex surgery at the Narayana Hrudayala on the city outskirts on August 22 2007, and has recovered well, Dr Shekhar Rao, whose led team performed the surgery told a press conference in Bangalore on 8 September 2007.
The boy is doing well and would be returning to Abbothbad, a village situated on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in a day or two, he said.
The doctors in Pakistan who conducted diagnostic investigations had delcared that it was impossible to subject the boy to surgery.
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