Health minister undergoes procedure to have two stents placed

Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain has undergone a procedure to have two stents placed in his heart to treat blocked arteries.

The procedure was completed at 4:30PM on Sunday (November 15) at a hospital in the capital.

An angiogram conducted at the same hospital on Saturday detected blockages in three places in his heart. Following the doctors’ advice, two of the blockages were treated with stents on Sunday, while the third was treated through balloon angioplasty, a procedure to widen the narrowed artery.

A medical team led by Professor Dr N A M Momenuzzaman successfully carried out the procedures.

- MaT