Critical Surgery Conducted On Pregnant Woman At New SUM Campus In Phulnakhara

Bhubaneswar: A team of surgeons conducted a critical surgery on a pregnant woman at the second campus of Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital in Phulnakhara near here.

Led by Dr Smrutishree Sahu, the doctors removed a tumour weighing one-and-a-half kg and also ensured safe delivery of the woman.

Both the mother and baby boy are doing fine.

The doctors performed a caesarean section to deliver the baby and simultaneously conducted a myeomectomy to remove the uterine fibroid.

Dean of the new campus of IMS and SUM Hospital Prof. Arakhita Swain and Medical Superintendent Prof. Rajesh Kumar Lenka provided full support to the surgical team which also comprised Dr Siddharth Gautam of Pharmacological department, paediatrician Dr Soumya Ranja Samal, Dr Pragya Nanda of Anaesthesia department, Deputy Nursing Superintendent Kamalini Mallick among others.

The new hospital was dedicated to the people by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on January 22.

The 2000-bed hospital, located on NH-16 between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, has all facilities to extend speciality and super speciality medical treatment to patients at affordable cost.

It has a 24-hour emergency service along with ICU, ICCU, PICU, NICU besides separate ICUs for cardio-thoracic and vascular surgery and hemato oncology patients.

The hospital also treats patients under the state government sponsored Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) scheme.