Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 14: COVID-19 waves have taken lot of tolls on surgical work in all the health institutions including that in GMC Jammu and COVID casualities in GMC Jammu last year created severe indents in the overall image of GMC Jammu. But now it looks that the quality work especially surgical in GMC Jammu has again started picking up.
The live examples are successful conduct of two very rare surgeries by a team of doctors of Postgraduate Department of Surgery led by Chief Surgeon, Prof Sanjay Kumar Bhasin. In first, surgery performed on a 45-year-old female who traveled from pillar to post for remedy of a large tumor weighing 8.3 kg in her abdomen which Dr Sanjay Bhasin and his team including Dr Sanjay Sharma, Dr Talib, Dr Abhinav and residents successfully removed.
The tumor was a variant of Teratoma that attained huge sized almost three times the weight of a fetus in uterus and rarity was also due to the fact that now a days due to availability of newer radiological modalities such tumors are picked in very early stage and do not attend such huge size as the same are operated earlier.
Pertinently, Dr Sanjay Kumar Bhasin has distinctions of operating a 27 kg tumor in a 78-year-old female in 2006 and in 2009 he removed 14.8 kg tumor from the abdomen of a 45-year-old male that attracted the media eyes. Both cases have been entered in surgical literature.
Another rare case operated by Dr Sanjay Dhar and residents under the supervision of Dr Sanjay Kumar Bhasin was a big tumor located around right hip area in an elderly lady from a remote village who was having great difficulty in carrying such tumor while walking or doing any other routine work. The tumor was plexiform neurofibromatosis which again is a very surgical entity.
Both the patients are recovering nicely in the surgical wards of GMC Jammu. The anesthesia team was led by Prof (Dr) Anju Jamwal, Dr Neha and residents.
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