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Hyderabad cardiac surgeon Prateek Bhatnagar performs India's first coronary bypass surgery on COVID-19 recovered patient

Megha Jain

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In the first instance of its kind in India, a Hyderabad-based renowned cardiac surgeon Dr Prateek Bhatnagar and his team have successfully performed coronary bypass surgery on a 63-year old COVID-19 recovered patient. The patient, Afsar Khan, is a resident of Karwan in Hyderabad's old city and was admitted in the Government Gandhi Hospital in April for 21 days due to coronavirus.