The new comprehensive health insurance system announced the success of the first heart surgery without a chest incision through a limited intervention for the first time in Port Said Governorate, where the heart surgery team at Al Nasr Specialized Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Mohamed Aziz, head of the department and Dr. Kotb El Sayed, the hospital director, performed heart surgery to replace the mitral valve and valve repair Tricuspid without incision of the chest sternum and the use of a limited intervention method by opening an 8 cm below the breast of the patient “Em”, a 40-year-old patient who suffered from rheumatic heart fever that caused her very narrow mitral valve and severe regurgitation of the triple valveBalconies.
The comprehensive health insurance system said that the surgery was performed by Dr. Amir Al-Bastawisy, consultant of cardiothoracic surgery and Dr. Mohamed Shalaby, resident doctor, cardiac surgery Mohamed Al-Saeed anesthesia cardiologist
Dr. Amir Al-Bastawisy, consultant of cardiothoracic surgery, emphasized that this type of surgery reduces postoperative pain and complications, which reduces the patient’s period of intensive care and hospitalization, and returns to normal life in the least time, in addition to the cosmetic advantage of this type of surgery.
Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky, Director of the Comprehensive Health Insurance Project and Assistant Minister of Health for Monitoring and Follow-up Affairs added that there are many modern technologies and new medical practices implemented within the framework of the comprehensive health insurance system that includes the provision of a distinguished medical service in accordance with the highest international quality standards and obtained by the user from the health insurance system Comprehensive matter, which comes in implementation of the directions of the political leadership to ensure the provision of a distinguished medical service to the Egyptian citizen in the coming period.
Dr. Ahmed Al-Subki, director of the comprehensive health insurance project, the assistant minister of health for supervision and follow-up affairs, said that the state supports the provision of health services within the new system of comprehensive insurance, noting that the unification of the service provider had a positive impact on the regularity of the service while providing it with the highest quality standards.
Al-Subki explained that a series of registration campaigns had been launched outside the units and medical centers, which contributed to the registration of large numbers of citizens, noting that a pilot operation had been run for some hospitals in the context of preparations for operating the system by March 2020.
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