The 35th Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Camp organised by the Heart and Brain Institute of Andhra Hospitals in association with a team from UK-based Healing Little Hearts concluded on Saturday (August 2, 2025). The camp commenced on July 28.
At a press conference on Sunday (August 3, 2025), Chief of Children’s Services and Director of the Hospital Dr. P. V. Rama Rao said that consultant paediatric cardiac surgeon Dr B. R. Jagannath from Shri Madhusudan Sai Hospital at Muddenahalli in Bengaluru along with Andhra Hospitals cardiac surgical team led by Dr. Nageswara Rao, completed 11 free heart surgeries.
The team performed very complex heart surgeries for conditions like Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage (TAPVD), Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage (PAPVD), TOF and PA banding among other surgeries, he said, adding that the success rate of the surgeries was nearly 99% and which is because of the team effort. He said so far, the hospital had successfully performed more than 4,800 cardiac surgeries and interventions.
Representatives of the Healing Little Hearts, UK team, have visited the hospital 34 times so far and many complex heart surgeries were performed with their association, he added.
Senior paediatric cardiologist Dr. Vikram, Paediatric cardiologist Dr. Sk. Moinuddin Chisty, senior cardiac surgeon Dr. Nageswara Rao, senior cardiac anaesthetist Dr. Ramesh and cardiologists Dr. Raghuram, and Dr. Tirupathi Rao were also present at the press meet.
Published – August 03, 2025 11:11 pm IST
