Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 26: First time in North India, Amandeep Hospital, Amritsar has launched a special treatment therapy called Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), which will certainly help in quick healing of wounds, especially diabetic foot and non healing wounds.
Several times, wounds do not heel quickly or at times, do not heel at all, resulting in amputation of important limbs of a person, which makes him or her permanently disable. Such persons become burden on his family, society and country. Many times, due to non healing wound, a person has to stay in hospital for longer duration which incur huge financial costs and physical as well as mental fatigue but now wounds will heal quickly with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT).
Normally oxygen is required to heal a wound but in an accident or badly crushed wound, proper oxygen supply is hindered and wound takes too long for healing. Due to this, that body parts start becoming weak or sometime it becomes dead, resulting in amputation of that body part.
In HBOT, patient is put into a special chamber and administered increased oxygen supply under specific pressure. In this way, the oxygen molecules reach to the every part of the body quickly. Normally, 3-14 sessions are administered to a patient for getting positive results. It helps in saving limbs of a patient, besides his time and money.
These words were expressed by Dr Kanwarjeet Singh, MD Medicine and HoD, HBOT Department, Amandeep Hospital. He was addressing a special seminar-cum-live workshop organized for members of Amritsar City Medical Society. Dr Ravi Mahajan, Chief Plastic Surgeon, Amandeep Group, also addressed the delegates and shared some cases wherein, limbs of patients were saved with the help of HBOT.
In the end, Dr Avtar Singh Luthra, president and Dr Varinder Sharma, general secretary, Amritsar City Medical Society, honored Dr Kanwarjeet Singh and Dr Ravi Mahajan with mementos.
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