RANCHI: The sadar hospital in Ranchi on Thursday performed an emergency surgery on an 85-year-old man and removed a part of his intestine after it was that it had developed gangrene.
The patient is currently stable and is still recovering and he is out of danger.
The three-hour-long surgery was led by general surgeon Dr Ajit Kumar, who performed the operation with anaesthetist Dr Alakh Narayan Mishra.
Aditya Nath Pathak had come to the hospital on Tuesday with complaints of bowel obstruction and constipation.
He was referred to Ranchi from Palamu after his suffering did not subside for 10 days at a stretch.
Talking to TOI, Dr Ajit said, “Following a preliminary examination, I suspected that his stomach has swollen.
So I had suggested a few pathological tests and admitted him to the hospital.” A CT scan revealed that the patient’s stomach has developed swelling.
“The reports confirmed the presence of a large bowel obstruction and it was turning gangrenous.
We immediately decided to operate on him as it had become life-threatening,” Dr Ajit said.
The doctors removed one-and-a-half feet of the infected intestine which was followed by an end colostomy.
“If we hadn’t performed the surgery, the gangrene would have spread to the whoel body,” Dr Ajit said.
The deputy superintendent of Ranchi district hospital, Dr Sabyasachi Mandal, congratulated the team and said: “This is for the first time that our doctors have conducted a sigmoid volvulus surgery successfully with limited resources.
I congratulate all the doctors and we will continue to support them so that such surgeries continue to be performed.” Meanwhile, Dr Ajit happens to be the same doctor who had performed the first laparoscopic surgery at Ranchi district hospital earlier this year and according to hospital sources, he had to bring in additional equipment from outside for conducting that surgery as the hospital did not have the necessary equipment.