The department claimed that such kind of complex surgeries were done at very few centers in India and had been performed for the first time in the DMCH.According to Dr Chiranjeev Gill, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, the patient, Resham Singh, aged 48, was stabbed by robbers in Jalandhar district. The knife had gone into the abdomen of the victim and cut his spleen, small intestine and main blood vessels to the intestine. These blood vessels are so vital for the intestine that if severed, the intestine decays and has to be removed. In such a case, the person is not be able to take food orally for his entire life and has to be fed by other means.
Resham Singh was brought to the hospital in a
critical condition and given first aid. After investigation, doctors took the timely decision to conduct the complex surgery. Resham Singh was operated upon by a team of Dr Gill, Dr Sat Pal and Dr Manoj of the Department of Surgery. Dr P.L. Gautam, anaesthetist, assisted them. In a six- hour-long complicated surgery, the task of joining the severed blood vessels was completed successfully.
“Resham Singh is feeling absolutely normal and there was no post-operative complication,” the doctors said.
Meanwhile, a voluntary blood donation camp was organised by the Department of Transfusion Medicine of the DMCH in collaboration with the Yuva Rakt Daan Society, Mandi Dabwali, in which 40 persons donated blood for patients under treatment at the hospital. Functionaries of the society pledged to hold such camps on a regular basis to serve the sick, especially thalassemic children, who needed frequent blood transfusion.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Amarjit Kaur of the Department of Transfusion Medicine said one of the major concerns of healthcare institutions was to arrange adequate blood for thalassemic children as their number was increasing day by day. Currently, 140 patients were getting treatment in the special thallassemia unit and approximately 140 to 160 units of blood were required every month to carry out the blood transfusion. “Their lives entirely depend upon the availability of blood. This can only be made possible if people, specially youngsters, come forward for voluntary blood donation.
