Tanzania, Australia Specialists Perform Rare Surgery At Muhimbili National Hospital

Dar es Salaam — Local specialists at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), in collaboration with surgeons from St John of God Hospital in Australia, yesterday performed a rare microvascular surgery on a 35-year-old man by transferring small muscles of blood vessels from the upper part of the leg to the lower part. The procedure is medically known as "free gracilis muscle transfer".

The last time MNH performed such microvascular surgery was in 1991. Thus, yesterday, history was written yet again, with the novel procedure being performed by at least 10 experts--that is, six Tanzanian and four Australia surgeons.

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