Condition Of First Heart Transplant Patient Is Improving -Director Kandy Teaching Hospital

The condition of the female Heart Patient undergone the first Heart Transplant Surgery in Kandy Teaching Hospital is stable and doctors are supervising her condition closely according to the Director of the Hospital Dr.Saman Rathnayake.

The medical team performed the first ever Heart Transplant Surgery  is ready perform more  in future Dr.Rathnayake has stressed.

If a proper Organ donor system is in function here then it will be easier to carry out Heart Transplant Surgeries here without any difficulty he has stated.

Meanwhile a senior Cardio Thoracic Surgeon here has stated that almost all the Sri Lankan Cardio Thoracic Surgeons  are well equipped with Heart Transplant technique and due to the lack of facilities available in Hospitals they are not able to perform this Surgery.

According to the  Western Medical circles a Heart Transplant Patient can live around 15 years after the surgery.