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Re-plantation surgery opens up new vistas in State

Pradip Kumar Das

A ray of hope for victims

CUTTACK: Re-plantation surgeries in joining severed parts to the main body have come of age in the State now. The recent successful re-plantation of a cut-off hand to the body again of a youth at a private nursing home here has opened new vistas in the field of microsurgeries in Orissa. Workers employed in hazardous and dangerous industrial units and particularly road accident victims who lose body parts can find a ray of hope with such surgeries now made possible in the State.

Although these type of surgeries are not new to the State but the one done by Subrat Kumar Jena and his team at Ashwini Hospital here last week was unique in the sense that it was done with more precision to ensure that the cut-off hand would receive normal blood circulation. The bone, tissues, muscles and nerves were repaired to regain their original functions after necessary physiotherapy.

Industrial accidents

Madhav Balmuch, a 19-year-old tribal boy from Jajpur district while working in a sponge iron factory lost his right arm as it went inside the conveyor belt and was severed. But within hours, the patient landed up here with the severed body part and his hand was replanted after an eight-hour surgery, Dr. Jena said.

Dr. Jena, chairman of Aswini Hospital, says that the eight-month-old hospital at Abhinab Bidanasi is now concentrating on re-plantation surgery and exclusively taking care of poly-trauma or multiple injury cases.

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