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'I've wanted to be a heart surgeon since I was 7'

Rowenna Hoskin
BBC News
Tom Jackson/Fremantle Indu Deglurkar smiles at the camera, she is wearing light blue scrubs and a surgeons cap. She is wearing pink-framed glasses and a gold necklace.Tom Jackson/Fremantle
Indu Deglurkar has worked at University Hospital of Wales since 2010

Indu Deglurkar knew she wanted to be a heart surgeon when she was seven years old.

She is now internationally-renowned, working between 85 and 120 hours a week, and while her intricate open-heart surgeries usually happen behind closed doors, cameras have now been invited in.

Prof Deglurkar said the longest she has spent in the operating theatre was 37 hours with an "extremely unusual" case.

The life-saving work of surgeons is being revealed in series two of Saving Lives in Cardiff.

Prof Deglurkar told BBC Radio Wales' Behnaz Akhgar the origin of her career choice as a child was "a bit freaky".

After seeing a magazine with pictures of heart-lung machines she re "distinctly, as if it were yesterday, poking my dad and saying 'what are these people doing'":[]}