Dalit outfits want commission hearings in Pune

PUNE: The two-member Bhima Koregaon judicial commission, headed by former chief justice of Calcutta high court justice Jai Narayan Patel and state chief secretary Sumit Mullick, is all set to beginhearingsfromseptember5.

The hearings will take place in Mumbai from September 5 to September 7 and in Pune from October 3 and October 6.

This comes eight months after the January 1 violence which erupted in Bhima Koregaon, Perne phata and Shikrapur.

Dalit organisations led by republican yuva morcha president Rahul Dambale, have demanded that hearings be held in Pune and a major portion of the probe be completed here as the incident took place in the Pune jurisdiction. NEW DELHI: Doctors at Delhi’s Ganga Ram Hospital removed a four-kg cervical tumour as big as a newborn child from a 47-yearold woman after a three-hour surgery. The woman came to the hospital in January this year with complaints of pain in the abdomen and abnormally high bleeding for the past 10 years.

Doctors felt a large firm mass almost equivalent to a 34 weeks old pregnancy.

She had earlier got an ultrasound scan of the abdomen done in 2009 that showed a fibroid, noncancerous tumour in the womb, of 3.3 x 2.3 cm size. But she did not get treated for the condition then.

Investigations at Ganga Ram Hospital revealed the growth had now become a giant tumour of 23cm x 23cm x 16 cm, weighing 4 kgs, and was occupying the space from the depth of the pelvis up to four inches below the breast bone and was adjoining the liver.

The tumour was removed by experts at the minimally invasive gynaecology department.

“It was a unique case in many ways: firstly the huge size, its rapid growth and its management laparoscopically. This case amazed us because in spite of knowing about the tumour, no active management was done to date. Due to its huge size, its precarious position and chances of it being cancerous, its removal was challenging,” said Dr Debasis Dutta, senior consultant, department of minimally invasive gynaecology, Ganga Ram.

Since there was suspicion of the mass being cancereous, the tumour had to be removed in total with minimal blood loss.

The case was recently published in ‘Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Research’.