The Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) doctors reconstructed the food pipes that were not properly developed in two children. Poorly developed food pipe is a defect witnessed in an average of two in 10,000 births.
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According to the hospital, one of the patients is a four-year-old girl, while the other is a one-and-a-half-year-old boy. The girl was unable to swallow food since birth and doctors at the ESI Hospital had placed a feeding tube into the stomach as a temporary solution.
The doctors did a thorough examination and reconstructed the food pipe that was not properly developed, using a part of the patient’s colon. She was discharged after eight days.
The second patient underwent a similar procedure and was discharged nine days after the surgery.