Bangalore, July 18: The Pakistani baby girl, Noor Fatima, was taken off the ventilator today, four days after she underwent an open heart surgery at a cardiac specialty hospital on the city outskirts, the doctor attending on her said. "She is looking all right. Her vital parameters are fine," said Dr Rajesh Sharma, paediatric cardiac surgeon who led the team, which performed the operation on the two-and-a-half year old child.
Noor would be kept in the intensive thoracic unit "for at least another two days," he said. Noor, who came in the Lahore-Delhi bus on Friday last on the first trip after resumption of the service, underwent the operation for ventricular septal defect with pulmonary stenosis on Tuesday.
According to doctors, the nearly six hour surgery was performed to plug two holes in the heart and involved removal of obstruction to blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery. Bureau Report