The construction of a unique hybrid heart surgery center has begun in Belarus. This is a facility where the most modern world equipment will be concentrated. It will allow perfroming two simultaneous surgeries on one patient. More than 97 million Belarusian rubles will be invested in the project. According to the plans, the center of hybrid cardiac surgery will begin operating in 2024. In 2019, the Cardiology National Scientific and Practical Center performed a record high number of heart transplants - 53 surgeries. One of them was the heart-lung transplant. 16 transplant surgeries were performed on foreign patients last year.