2.3kg baby has heart operation in IJN


KUALA LUMPUR: Two-month-old Ong Yee Ling has become the smallest premature baby to undergo cardiac surgery at the National Heart Institute (IJN). 

A team of cardiothoracic surgeons led by the institute's cardiothoracic surgery department chief, Datuk Dr Mohd Azhari Yakub, carried out the operation on April 5. 

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