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Kenyan doctors perform rare heart procedure

Surgeons, nurses, cardiologists performing open heart surgery on a baby with a heart defect at Mater Hospital. [File, Standard]

A team of cardiologists in Nairobi has successfully performed a rare heart procedure known as 'Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL)'.

This places Kenya alongside South Africa as the only countries on the continent where the treatment has been carried out.

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