Ranchi: Vikash Kumar Rai, Indigenous People of Jatui Regency, received a new rental of life after a cardio doctor Department of Vascular Surgery (CTV) managed to carry out an open heart operation on him.
Rai is recovering and is expected to be repatriated in a week also become the 100th patient to undergo open heart surgery in the last 16 months.
Because the CTV Department managed to complete 100 cases last week, rim management along with doctors and staff celebrated the event and talked about the journey that began almost a decade back in 2012.
Speaking with Toi, Heart Surgeons and Head of the CTVS Department in Rims, Dr.
Anshul Kumar said: “We have come far from not being able to carry out a single open heart operation for the first seven years after the department’s start.
We are working on half a step and after being provided with a better workforce, we will be able to double the numbers.” According to officials.
Rims, CTV began in 2012 but many doctors have joined the department to leave the institute due to lack of infrastructure.
In 2017, Dr.
Anshul and Dr.
Rakesh Choudhary joined as faculty after theater operations assigned in October 2018 which opened the door for vascular operations in the department.
However, the first open heart operation was carried out in February 2019 when the CTV doctor along with the help of two experts from PGI Chandigarh carried out the first open heart operation.
Calculating the first operation, Dr.
Kumar said: “Haseba Biwi, a 50-year-old woman from Purulia, is our first open heart case in the rims.
She still comes to follow up and healthy.” Super Special Department has also helped many poor patients who don’t Able to carry out open heart surgery which is an expensive affair in private hospitals because 90% of patients are given treatment under the Pradhan Mantri-Jan Arogya YOJNA (PM-Jay) Ayushman Bharat scheme for free.
Apart from many not included in the central health insurance scheme given free maintenance with the RIMS administrative free approval plan.
“About 90 of the 100 operations that we have done have been carried out under the Ayushman Bharat scheme, which costs more than Rs 3 Lakh in a private hospital.
We have also treated patients who have not been borne by Ayushman and after administrative approval they can get their care for free for free Because care of up to Rs 1 lakh can be provided for such patients in rims and costs around Rs 70,000, “said Dr.
Kumar.
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Umesh Rai, father of Vikash Kumar Rai, said: “I was allowed to be discouraged after doctor Igims Patna refused to do surgery to my son, so I came here.
My child recovered well and the doctors said that he would be dismissed in a week.
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The CTV department in the rim completes 100 open heart operations
