Seven babies operated in ongoing weeklong free children heart camp at Sky Hospital
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 07 2019:
At least seven babies have undergone surgery during the ongoing weeklong free children heart camp organised at Sky Hospital.
Speaking to media persons at Sky Hospital, Lalambung Makhong, RIMS road today, Chief Cardiologist & Chairman Sky Group of Hospitals Dr L Shyamkishore Singh said that the weeklong free children heart surgery camp, which was organised by Sky Hospital in collaboration with Healing Little Hearts, United Kingdom (Charitable Foundation) from March 3 is going on successfully.
He maintained that the camp will continue till March 9 .
A 14 member team from UK, who have come to participate and attend to the patients, comprised of highly qualified and experienced paediatric cardiac surgeon, paediatric cardiac anaesthetist, paediatric intensivist.
The weeklong free children heart surgery camp is the very first initiative in Manipur and the entire North East region.
Dr L Shyamkishore stated that some children who are born with heart problems should be treated as early as possible to ensure a healthy long life.
When the UK team arrived in Imphal, a screening programme and case selection process were held adding that altogether seven children have been operated successfully till today morning.
Claiming that at least two operations are carried out in a day, he stated that an operation takes 5 to 6 hours.
He informed that children with birth defects should be diagnosed properly and early as it could lead to death.
Meanwhile, Healing Little Hearts United Kingdom lead consultant congenital cardiac surgeon, Dr Branko Mimic informed that the children operated till today are 2 months old weighing 4.4 kg adding that carrying out an operation on a small baby is a challenging task.
Cardiac Anaesthetist Healing Little hearts, United kingdom, Dr Mirjana Cvetkovic, senior paediatric intensivist Dr Sanjiv Nichani and paediatric cardiologist Saravanan Durairaj were present in the press meet.