Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 6: Bringing a big relief to the patients of Jammu Province, cardiac surgery is now being carried out routinely at Government Superspeciality Hospital Jammu under Ayushman Sehat Scheme for which patients do not have to shell out anything from their pockets.
A 40-years-old man who had suffered poliomyelitis in his childhood and has weakness of left upper and lower limbs and had rheumatic heart disease with very heavily calcified heart valve with severely narrowed mitral valve causing severe breathlessness and irregular heart beat for years together, impeding his day today activities. Besides he had suffered stroke and had an infarct in the brain for which he was under medication. He had to get repeated hospital admissions for his ailments. He had low hemoglobin and albumin levels. He was prepared up for the heart surgery in the Department of CTVS and Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit at Government SSH Jammu before taking him up for surgery.
“Surgery posed a great challenge because of its associated comorbidities and the heavy load of calcium on native heart valve which extended onto the walls of adjoining heart chamber walls”, said the Chief Surgeon Dr Shyam Singh.
The surgical team comprised of Dr Shyam Singh (Surgeon) with Dr IA Mir (Co-Surgeon) and assisted by Dr Azhar and Dr Mohit Kumar (Registrars), Aisha, Irfan, Maryam (PGs). Other colleagues Dr Mohit Arora, Dr Vivek Gandotra, Dr Javed and Dr Rouf also helped in the procedure.
Cardiac Anaesthesia was conducted by Professor and Head Dr Puja Vimesh, Dr Avinash Kour, Preeti Sharma (Registrars) assisted by Senior Cardiac Anaesthesia technologist Shiv Karan Singh, Vikas Sharma, Arif, Saleem, Karan Singh and Sonal.
Senior Perfusionists Chananjit Singh and Roshan Lal maintained the cardiopulmonary pump during operation. The operation theatre scrub sisters helping in carrying out the operation were Vaishali, Renu, Sapna, Angmo and operation theatre senior technician Girdhari Singh and OT Incharge Indu Khurdi. The intra-operative and peri-operative care in Intensive Care Unit SSH was managed by team of Cardiac Anaesthesia residents Dr Sakshi, Dr Nitika, Dr Kanika, Dr Neha with active and alert ICU sisters Ekta Sudan, Urmila, Rajinder Kour, Pooja Sharma, Vandana, Shivalika, Shivani, Neetu, Sayeeda, Sonakshi and Sister Incharge ICU Tajinder Kour.
Principal Medical College Jammu Professor Dr Shashi Sudhan stressed that the people should utilize these facilities of open heart surgeries at their doorsteps free of cost under Ayushman Bharat Scheme. She further assured that the sanctioned posts of Faculty, Registrars and Assistant Surgeons in the Department of Cardiac Anaesthesia will be filled on priority basis.
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