The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) has successfully conducted its first Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS) cardiac surgery.

The surgery was conducted on a 12-year old teenager, Nupur, at the state-run hospital on Sunday (Aug 25).

The two and a half hours long procedure was performed under the leadership of the hospital’s resident surgeon Assistant Professor Ashraful Hoque Siam.

Although this advanced form of cardiac surgery has been performed at a few private hospitals in the country, it had never been done before at a state-run hospital.

Under the MICS, the doctors are not required to make a deep incision on the patient’s chest. A mere two‑inch long incision is made to perform the entire procedure, which makes the process less painful and less time-consuming.   

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been in touch with the doctors throughout the entire time and has congratulated the medical team who took part in the surgery, said Ashraful Hoque Siam.