Apollo hospitals stepped in and completely restructured ringing cheer to him and his family members
Apollo hospitals consultant othropedics surgeon Dr Balaji Srinivasan with Vijay Kumar Singh in Chennai (Photo: DC)
Chennai: When Bijay Kumar Singh (56) from Jharkhand met with an accident on his two-wheeler and sustained multiple injuries there was little hope of a recovery. But Apollo hospitals stepped in and completely restructured his shattered pelvic bone, bringing cheer to him and his family members. After his accident Bijay Kumar Singh was diagnosed with an open book pelvic fracture, fractures sacrum, blood in abdomen (hemoperitoneum) and blood in chest (haemothorax). Despite being immediately rushed to Kolkata, his condition worsened. He was then brought to Chennai on July 8.
A major five-hour pelvic surgery was performed. A one-inch keyhole was used to fix the large sacral pelvic fracture. The fixation is so stable that the patient has already been mobilised and is on a wheelchair, ready to travel back to his hometown in less than 72 hours. Dr Balaji Srinivasan, consultant orthopedic surgeon at Apollo Hospitals, said, "It is a kind of rare surgery in which we have tried to use a small one-one and a half incision and fix the pelvis. We also used two different operation tables to combine it into one which helped us perform this surgery successfully."
The patient had very little chance to survive, barely five days ago. "But now he is recuperating pretty well," Dr Srinivasan said. "Generally after such operations a patient is bedridden for three to
four months but in this case he can get back to whatever he was doing within three to four weeks," he said. Prabhat Kumar (62), the patient's brother-in-law said doctors at Kolkata had given up hope. "It was then that we contacted Dr Balaji and without delay were allotted a team of doctors to take Bijay to Chennai from Kolkata by train," he said.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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