According to Jazan Health Affairs, over the past year, the Cardiac Center of Prince Muhammad bin Nasser Hospital (PMBNH) has performed 177 open-heart surgeries. The surgeries ranged from heart valve replacement and repair, arterial bypass surgeries, and pediatric heart surgeries.
It pointed out that 169 surgeries were performed for adults, 8 surgeries for children, and 25 beating heart surgeries, during the same period.