RISHIKESH

AIIMS-Rishikesh docs perform rare heart surgery to save 15-yr-old

The doctors at All India Institute Of Medical Science in Rishikesh (AIIMS-R) have successfully performed the complicated heart surgery to save a 15-year-old girl from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. The girl had a medical condition — Tetralogy of Fallot — under which oxygen-poor blood flows out of the heart into the rest of the body.

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