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Iffath Fathima ByExpress News ServiceBENGALURU: A 67-year-old Nigerian suffering from a heart condition that required open heart surgery, approached city doctors to carry out a bloodless surgery on him. Being a Jehovah's Witness, a small community of people who do not accept blood or blood product transfusions, doctors had to take into consideration the patients’ faith and carry out the surgery accordingly. “This was a challenge, as for any open heart surgery, blood transfusions or blood product transfusions is needed. The eight-hour-long complex surgery, without any blood surgery, was performed successfully. The doctor says this is the first such surgery being carried out on a Jevovah Witness patient..