A complicated cancer surgery was successfully operated in the modernized OT facility at Atal Bihari Memorial Regional Cancer hospital in Agartala, Tripura on Tuesday.
The critical surgery added a new feather to the success cap of the hospital which is, of late, in the news after successful introduction of various new equipment and PET scan facility. The surgery that was done on Tuesday lasted for five long hours owing to its complexity and sensitive location of the cancer.
Dr Asish Kumar Gupta, speaking on the matter said, “The patient was a 20 years old girl who was suffering from thyroid cancer. She was once operated on earlier but the disease redeveloped in her thyroid gland in some time. We cleared all the tumor deposits from various parts of the gland. What made the task hard was that some tumor deposits also went very close to the brain. These were attached with the blood supply line to the brain. After almost a five hour long operation all the deposits were wiped out of her gland and the patient was stable now”.
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Dr Gupta who joined the hospital in January last also informed the media that it was one of the biggest operations ever done in the cancer hospital premises. “Earlier we used to perform such operations in GBP hospital. Now, the operations were being performed here since adequate infrastructure was set up here”.
“So far, 18 cancer surgeries have been done after me and my colleague Pritesh Rajiv Singh joined the hospital” Dr Gupta added.
Dr Gupta also said that all kinds of cancer related treatments were now available in Atal Bihari Regional Cancer hospital and there was no need to go outside seeking treatment.
“In Agartala regional cancer centre all kinds of cancer treatment is possible. With the advent of PET scan technology and modular OT, this hospital has become one of the best solutions for all the cancer related problems”, said Dr Gupta.
Dr Mrinal Debbarma administered the anesthesia and Dr Pritesh Rajiv Singh assisted Dr Gupta in the operation.
