A team of medical personnel from India performed open heart and joint replacement surgeries at the two division hospitals in the country last week.
Director of Sahyadri Speciality Pacific Hospital Limited, Professor Manu Munibhargav says a team of 14 members performed 8 cardiac surgeries at the CWM Hospital while another team of 8 performed 2 joint replacement surgeries at the Lautoka Hospital.
He says the team of surgeons will perform about 45 open heart surgeries from 16th May at the CWM Hospital which will be for two weeks.
Munibhargav says they are looking at performing 20 joint replacement surgeries in May.
He says the cost of an open heart surgery is $25,000 while the cost of the single joint replacement surgery is $21,500 and for bilateral surgery it is $31,000.
