A team of doctors of Government Hospital in Manapparai on Saturday performed a spine surgery on a 27-year-old labourer. It was said to be the first spine surgery performed at the GH in Manapparai ever since it was upgraded as District Headquarters hospital recently. Though the GH was yet to get many facilities on par with a district hospital, the doctors have successfully performed the surgery that lasted for three hours and removed a neurogenic tumour over spinal cord.
Ravi Selvakumar (27) of Puthupatti near Manapparai, who underwent the surgery, was recuperating well. John Viswanath, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, who performed the surgery along with anaesthetist Malai Durai, said there was no post operative neurological deficit in the patient’s leg. He was responding to the treatment well. It was successfully done with the cooperation of family members of Selvakumar. He preferred the surgery at the Manapparai GH after visiting a few leading hospitals and a Central government hospital in Puducherry. He said the surgery would cost Rs.80,00 to Rs.1 lakh in private hospitals. It had proved that complicated surgeries could be done at GH on par with private hospitals.
