OGH, NIMS and Gandhi Hospital often carry out high-end surgical procedures on a par with personal hospitals in Telangana

Hyderabad: Till not too long ago, company hospitals in Hyderabad have been the dominant power when it got here to conducting advanced surgical procedures associated to cardiology, organ transplantation, orthopedic knee substitute surgical procedures and Cochlear Implants (CI) for hearing-impaired kids. Patients invariably needed to entry such healthcare services in personal hospitals both by means of State-run Aarogyasri, personal medical insurance protection or foot the invoice from their very own pockets.

For the previous 18 months, nevertheless, issues have began to vary with authorities hospitals stepping-up and often taking-up advanced surgical procedures and within the course of offering an alternate for poor sufferers. With the Telangana government managing to ascertain new Modular Operation Theatres (OTs) and discount of affected person load at Outpatient (OP) wings attributable to Basthi Dawakhanas, tertiary hospitals like OGH, NIMS, Gandhi Hospital and MNJ Cancer Hospital at the moment are capable of provide advanced procedures freed from value to sufferers. At Gandhi Hospital, for the previous one-year, the surgeons are routinely conducting orthopedic surgical procedures, along with finishing up CI implants, angiograms, implanting stents and renal transplants.

“It’s not just Aarogyasri patients, we are even conducting surgeries like knee implants for patients not covered under any insurance scheme. We are procuring implants and providing them for free of cost. More than 100 renal transplants have been taken up so far,” says Superintendent, Gandhi Hospital, Dr M Raja Rao. In the approaching months, the Gandhi Hospital can even launch liver and coronary heart transplant surgical procedures, as soon as the development of a centralized transplant facility is accomplished.

“There is no denying the fact that in the last few years, tertiary government hospitals in Hyderabad are offering health care facilities that are on par with corporate facilities,” Dr Raja Rao mentioned. At OGH, regardless of infrastructure difficulties, life-saving emergency procedures for coronary heart assault sufferers, kidney transplants and complicated surgical procedures by the division of gastroenterology, orthopedics and common surgical procedure are taken up.

The nephrology and urology wing of OGH has up to now performed 23 liver transplants, one pancreas transplant and practically 620 kidney transplants. In truth, the cardiology wing of OGH, by means of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) hub-and-spoke mannequin, is saving the lives of 200 to 250 coronary heart assault sufferers each month. “In the last 12 months, we have done a lot of tough surgeries that earlier were not possible. All because of lot of encouragement from the State government, CSR activities in OGH by companies and voluntary organisations,” says Superintendent, OGH, Dr B Nagender.

Taking high-end surgical procedures at authorities hospitals to the following stage, not too long ago robotic surgical procedures have been launched at NIMS Hospital. Among authorities hospitals, the NIMS leads in conducting renal transplant surgical procedures in Telangana. The surgeons recurrently conduct uncommon and complicated renal surgical procedures on paediatric instances and complicated coronary heart procedures like deployment of synthetic pulmonary valve by means of proper femoral vein and shutting Atrial Septal Defects (ASD) in coronary heart.