Bypass surgery at DMCH to cost Tk 40,000: Minister
Published: 07 July 2019, 9:11:23
As per the directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the full-fledged ‘Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery’ department was launched on the 2nd floor of the DMCH new building at a cost of Tk 27 crore, the minister said.He said a patient with heart ailment has to spend Tk 4-5 lakh to have a bypass surgery at a private hospital in the country while it costs much higher at a hospital abroad. “But people can now undergo bypass surgery here at a very low cost,” he said.
DMCH Director Brigadier General AKM Nasir Uddin presided over the function.