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Kenya conducts first rare heart transplant

The two-hour procedure at Mediheal Hospital in Nairobi took 10 specialists and cost Sh7 million. [Chebet Birir, Standard]

A rare heart valve transplant procedure was successfully performed without surgery on an 83-year-old patient in Nairobi.

The transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was the first of its kind in Kenya and the region.

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