Uganda, March 29 -- A team of surgeons from Uganda and the United States of America has conducted surgeries on 33 patients at Mulago National Referral Hospital, replacing their damaged knees and reconstructing their joints.

Dr Alexander Bangirana, a senior consultant orthopedic surgeon at Mulago hospital, who is coordinating the knee project, said this was done during a surgical camp, which started on March 18 and ended yesterday.

"We are going to do nine arthroscopic surgeries. Already seven have been done, and today [yesterday] we are doing two. And of those seven, which have been done so far, five were anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions and two were diagnostic and meniscectomies," he said in an interview with Monitor.

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