Orthopaedic surgical procedures take a success at Abohar Civil Hospital

Raj Sadosh

Abohar, June 26

Harjot Singh (7), a resident of Indira Nagari, had fractured his leg whereas taking part in seven days in the past. He was admitted to the Civil Hospital to bear orthopaedic surgical procedure. However the identical couldn’t be achieved as anaesthesia immunisation machine was mendacity defunct on the Civil Hospital.

The anaesthesia specialist who joined obligation after a two-month depart defined that kids under 10 years of age couldn’t be operated upon because of the malfunctioned machine. In consequence, Sapna and Buta Singh (mother and father) needed to crowdfund cash for the surgical procedure of their son at a personal hospital. After reporting the matter to senior officers, it got here to the fore that ortho associated surgical procedures of kids had not been carried out on the hospital for the previous 30 months.

“The orthopaedician mentioned sedation was should to carry out surgical procedure. Anaesthesia specialist was on a depart. Now, he informed that sedation machine was non-functional,” mentioned Buta.

The officiating SMO, Dr Neerja Gupta, mentioned she took the cost lately and has come to know concerning the concern because the anaesthesia specialist was not able to take the chance of sedating the kid with out anaesthesia immunisation machine.

Earlier, many sufferers needed to get ultrasound scans achieved from personal labs because the machine on the Civil Hospital remained defunct for a month.