Heart surgeries performed in Karakol for first time

AKIPRESS.COM - The first heart surgery was performed in Karakol town in the Issyk-Kul region, Turmush reports. According to the doctors, the surgeons from Bishkek arrived to perform surgery for two 10-year-old children, who had heart disease.
The surgery lasted for 2.5 hour. These surgeries are performed at the free basis at the initiative of Health Ministry," doctors said.
Over 100 children in the region has heart diseases and they need surgeries, said the regional health care coordinator Mirbek Sagynbayev.