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In yet another remarkable achievement the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery and Interventional Radiology (CTVS and IR) department of the Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) and GBP conducted bypass heart surgery on a patient successfully.
Only recently the newly opened CTVS&IR department doctors led by Dr. Kanak Narayan Bhattacharjee had performed first Open Heart Surgery in the state, creating new hope in the state’s healthcare delivery.
On Saturday they did the first Bypass Surgery in the state on a 38-year-old male patient. The patient is stable and recuperating perfectly. The surgery took about six long hours.
Addressing a press conference, Medical Superintendent of GBP hospital Dr. Sanjib Kumar Debbarma said the patient, a resident of Amarpur sub-division, was admitted in the hospital with complaints of chest pain and heart attack on December 9 last year.
After his health condition became stable, the doctors spotted a blockage in the coronary artery of the patient through angiogram and advised him for artery bypass grafting, Dr. Debbarma said, adding that bypass heart surgery was successfully conducted on Friday last.
“The surgery took six hours. The whole surgery was conducted without transfusion of additional blood since a cell saver machine was used for the first time. The machine collected the blood lost during the surgery, washed it properly and transfused it into the patient’s body. It was a beating heart surgery that ended without wasting of blood,” Dr. Bhattacharjee said while explaining the technical part.
He said that the post-surgery health condition of the patient was stable. He was first shifted to ventilation and then he was taken to the ICU at midnight.
The team included Anesthesiologist Dr. Surajit Pal, perfusionist Sujan Sahu, Physician Assistant Sudipta Mandal, Scrub Nurse Zaheer Hussain, Arpita Sarkar, Sourab Shil, Mousumi Debnath, Anna Bahadur Jamatia, Prankrishna Deb, OT Assistant Ratan Mandal, Joydeep Chakraborty, Amrit Murasing, Coordinator Abhishek Dutta, Richashri Sarkar, Jemson Debbarma, Kishan Roy and other staff.
Principal of AGMC- Prof Manjushri Roy, who also attended the press conference, congratulated the entire team for this achievement.
She said, “the entire operation was successfully performed without using the heart-lung machine. If the CTVS and IR department continues to work with the same spirit, the patients will get all kinds of heart treatment within the hospital.”
According to health experts, such achievements are not only reflecting the changes that came in the healthcare system over the past few years but also building a strong faith among the common people. The success in all these highly complex and complicated surgeries will certainly encourage patients to undergo similar treatment in the state and also arrest the money flow outside the state to the tune of crorses of rupees. Besides, the prospect of Health Tourism is also brightening with these achievements in Tripura.
