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Sub Category - First Surgical Operations
Name First Open-Heart Operation
Category Science and Technology - First Surgical Operations
Data Info The first human open-heart operation in Singapore was performed on Chua Ah Moi on 28 Jan 1965 at SGH, by a team comprising surgeons NK Yong, SC Ong and NC Foong. It was the first cardiac bypass procedure - the closure of an arterial septic defect - ever attempted here. It was also the first occasion when a heart-lung machine was used.
 
 
     
 
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