Libya’s Health Ministry reported yesterday that the state Al-Hadba Al-Khadra General Hospital in Tripoli succeeded of in an aortic valve implantation for a pathological condition, through catheterization, known as the “TAVI” process, which is the latest in valve replacement operations worldwide.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Hospital Affairs, Mr. Saad El-Din Abdel-Wakeel, praised the efforts of the medical team that performed the operation. During a visit to the Al-Hadba Al-Khadra Hospital to follow up on the operation, El-Wakeel expressed his confidence in the ability of national cadres to harness medical technology in serving and treating patients with international techniques.
In a related matter, the Director of Al-Hadba Al-Khadra Hospital, Muhammad Al-Rajhi, stated that this type of operation is being performed for the first time in the public sector in Libya, and it is considered one of the advanced medical techniques that are used to perform the process of changing, cultivating, or replacing the damaged or narrowed aortic valve through cardiac catheterization (without surgery).
