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04-08-2008, 04:40 PM
Doctor Angel Chan Aquino, who performed the country's first open heart surgery, has died. He was 85. Chan had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for the last nine months. Chan was a practicing physician for 58 years and carried out the country's first open heart operation in 1974. Chan began practicing medicine in 1949 and his first office was located where the Corazones Unidos hospital stands today. Later in life Aquino founded the Instituto del Corazon, which helps treat children with heart ailments and once recorded the song "Noche de Playa" in order to help raise funds for children.
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