The doctors at the Mahant Indiresh hospital here have successfully performed cardiac surgery on two children by using the ultra modern Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS) method.
At present the Heart Surgeries of adults are been conducted routinely by MICS technique in the hospital but only recently, this technique was used on two children. The complex surgery was performed by the head of department of Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery Dr Ashok Kumar Jayant.
Addressing newsmen at the hospital on Thursday these surgeries were performed under the Rashtriya Bal Suraksha Karyakram’. Under this, no expenditure was incurred by the extremely poor families of these two children, hailing from very remote areas.
After the surgery both Pawan Kumar (17 years), a resident of Village Khanbari, Manakhera, Udham Singh Nagar and lalit Arya (14 years), a resident of Sult Patal, Almora, Uttarakhand are healthy.
The Additional Medical Superintendent Dr V K Bihari and others were present on the ocassion.