The Rotary Club of Suva today announced that Dr Rustem Dautov, Senior Interventional cardiologist at Queensland’s Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane will be in Fiji from 9-11 February to volunteer his time to perform heart surgeries at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital.

He is regarded as one of the country’s foremost operators in the field of Chronic Total Occlusion (blocked arteries) and is one of the world’s leading exponents of opening up such arteries and is internationally sought-after to treat and train local doctors in the procedure. 

Rotary Suva say they are honoured that of his own accord, Dr Dautov has volunteered to work in Fiji at the CWMH Cathlab with Fijian colleagues. They say it “will be an incredible learning experience for the Fiji team and another milestone in our journey to build much needed local capacity in tertiary cardiac services for the country.”

Dr Dautov comes highly recommended by Rotarian Dr Vijay Kapadia for his expertise.

Dr Kapadia says Fiji is fortunate to have him for two days. 

CWM Interventional Cardiologist Dr Shahin Nusair’s team has a list of patients for Dr Dautov to treat over the two days. Dr Kapadia has been volunteering his time in Fiji for heart surgeries since 2001.