The Department of Support and Development of Medical Services (DSDMS) reported yesterday that 320 successful cardiac catheterization operations between therapeutic and diagnostic procedures were conducted inside the Al-Hadba Al-Khadra General Hospital.

These operations are continuing and are conducted in cooperation with the hospital's national medical staff and under the supervision of the DSDMS.‎

‎The DSDMS reports that these operations have been conducted since the start of the treatment localisation project by targeting adult, children and newborn heart patients.‎

The saving to the state and citizen through localising healthcare Previously, a number of these operations would have had to be conducted abroad paid for by hard currency at a great expense and inconvenience to both the state, if they were state subsidised, or to the individual Libyan citizen.