Proud to be an Indian...

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Submitted by guptashubhranshu on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 10:56.
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Brief Idea

In a recent breakthrough surgery conducted by a team of Indian surgeons headed by Harshavardhan Hegde at Artemis Health Institute -- a super specialty hospital in suburban Gurgaon, an american-- Kim Busk aged 52,who was suffering from disc degeneration for the last 10 years, was operated for the replacement of 4 discs from his backbone; 2 in neck and another 2 in lower back.

Caution maintained, in brief

The experts had opened up the vertebral column for the operation. Extreame care was taken to protect the food pipe as well as the intervertebral disc; damage of the latter would lead to intense pain in back, neck and legs and even paralysis!

Replaced substitute

The discs numbered 5-6 and 6-7 were replaced with metal discs in the back. Similarly, discs of L4-L5 and L5-sacrum in the lower back were replaced by metal discs.

Conclusion

The operation is first of its kind that could be performed all over Asia. Moreover, the operation was done at very economical rate of $25,000; on the contrary it would have costed $250,000 in Europe.

Moreover, the operation had lasted for 8 hours, which is by no means is a minor task to be done.

Reference Link

http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080806/938/thl-american-undergoes-rare-bac...

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/002200808051758.htm

Even I'm proud

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Submitted by addi1091 on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 10:33.

Dear shubhranshu
It's an very important topic and I'm glad to see that somebody has taken pain to highlight this topic because untill now it is believed that major and risky oprations must be only carried out in foriegn countries which costs manyfold charges as compared to India which underestimates the indian medical potential and also draws foreign exchange.I hope every indian if reads your this blog will be surely proud to be an indian.Carry on and all the best.

Thanks Anand

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Submitted by guptashubhranshu on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 11:11.

Thanks a lot anand...Even iam glad to see that Indians too stand shoulder to shoulder with rest of the world in medics. I had laid out this blog mainly with an aim to make everyone aware that we must not underestimate ourselves in any field... After all skill is borne with human beings and we are all humans and aquire tremendous potential in ourselves...The point is to express it on suitable occasions!