Fekede D. Agwar

After attending undergraduate programme at Gonder University and general surgery at Addis Ababa University, Black Lion Hospital, went to Narayan Institute of Cardiac Science, Bangalore, India and studied cardiac surgery. I become the first cardiac surgeon for the country liberating the decade old missionaries based activity. Since then I performed more than 300 open-heart surgeries by leading the local team.

I performed cardiac surgeries from pediatric to adult from 6-month-old baby to a record 90 years old geriatrics patient in our country. I performed coronary artery bypass surgery from single to a record four-graft surgery successfully. In our country I also become the first to perform a beating heart bypass surgery. Among others; successful re do surgeries, left maze procedures, mitral valve repairs, multivalve surgeries, and AV canal defect with cor tri- atrium are the few.