Laparoscopic surgeries at UP’s 13 div hosps soon
Govt sanctions Rs 4.55 crore for purchase of specialised equipment; Prayagraj, Agra and Gorakhpur among the beneficiaries
PRAYAGRAJ : Laparoscopic surgery facilities will start in 13 divisional hospitals of the state, including Prayagraj’s Motilal Nehru (Divisional) Hospital, soon, say officials.
The state government has sanctioned a total of Rs 4.55 crore i.e. Rs 35 lakh for each of the 13 hospitals of Agra, Basti, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh, Bareilly, Chitrakoot, Jhansi, Mirzapur, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Ayodhya and Gonda districts to procure necessary laparoscopic operation machines needed to perform the keyhole surgeries, they added.
Special secretary (medical, health and family welfare) Pranjal Yadav conveyed the government approval of funds in this regard to the director general (medical and health) through a missive dated November 24. Copies of the missive have also been sent to all chief superintendents/chief medical superintendents of the hospitals concerned, say officials.
The funds have been sanctioned under the Mission Kalyani programme and the step will directly benefit residents of over 50 districts which depend on these divisional hospitals for advanced treatments not available locally to them, they add.
Welcoming the decision, chief superintendent, Motilal Nehru (Divisional) Hospital, Dr
Sushma Srivastava said, “Work will be started on the ground as soon as the instructions are received and the machine gets installed.”
Laparoscopic surgery is a surgical technique in which short, narrow tubes (trochars) are inserted into the abdomen through small (one centimetre) incisions. That’s why it’s sometimes called keyhole surgery. Then surgeons insert a tube through each opening and the camera and surgical instruments go through those. Then the surgeon does the operation.
Laparoscopic or “minimally invasive” surgery is a specialised technique for performing surgery.
In the past, this technique was used for gynaecologic surgery and for gall bladder surgery. Over the last 10 years, the use of this technique has expanded into intestinal surgery and is being used for performing surgeries of the kidney, hernia, uterus and intestines as well, said Dr Ashok Tripathi, noted laparoscopic surgeon of Prayagraj.