LAHORE: The first Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery was successfully performed at the newly established Cardiac Center at Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital Lahore last week. This is the latest addition of healthcare facilities in Lahore where cardiac surgery facilities are now available and it offers lot of hope to the under privileged people who will have access to state of the art cardiac care including cardiac surgery facilities absolutely free of at highly subsidized cost.
Prof Amir Aziz and Dr. Ahsan Cardiac Surgeon who performed the first CABG surgery at GTTH recently photographed with other members of the Cardiac Surgical Team.
GTTH, is may be mentioned here is run and managed on donations and financial assistance from well to do in the society. Patients visiting GTTH get free treatment and those who can afford can pay. GTTH also has a state-of-the-art Spinal Surgery Unit headed by Prof. Amir Aziz which provides surgical facilities round the clock. It is also the second hospital in the country where CyberKnife surgery for cancer is available.
The cardiac surgeon who performed the surgery Dr. Ahsan is the grandson of late Dr. Israr Ahmad an eminent religious scholar.
