New Delhi: Lok Nayak Hospital conducted 147 operations in January, in addition to managing hundreds of Covid-19 patients.
According to Dr.
Pawanindra Lal, Professor Director and Head of the Surgical Department at the Hospital, at least 56 doctors were also infected with Covid-19 during this period, but surgical services continued.
“Despite low labor, surgical services are carried out all the time in an emergency and routine operating theater,” he said.
Dr.
Lal added that the social distance protocol was followed in the ward where patients were recognized to prevent the spread of infection.
“Every alternative bed in the ward is empty.
The patient found covid-positive is managed in a separate booth with limited entries for health workers in the area to provide proper care and prevent cross infections,” he explained.
In the past two years, because pandemics began in India, many hospitals were forced to suspend operations of choice to prioritize Covid management and also to reduce the risk of infection in patients received.
The head of the Surgical Unit at Lok Nayak Hospital said that in the future, hospitals may need to develop Covid and non-Covid services simultaneously.
“Non-covid services, including elective operations, cannot and should not be postponed without limits.
We have shown how it can be done during these waves,” he said.
Lok Nayak Hospital provides N95 masks for all patients in the surgical ward and only one relative with the N95 mask is permitted with each patient to reduce cross infection.
A 40-year-old woman suffering from ovarian cancer the final stages of women is among those operated at this time.
“He came to insert the Kemo port for palliative chemotherapy.
This procedure was carried out successfully on the basis of emergency and chemotherapy continued,” said the doctors.
Other patients who present with acute intestinal obstruction are operated in an emergency to alleviate obstruction.
Operation delays will cause intestinal gangrene and the possibility of losing life, the doctor said.