Doctors strike:
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Medical students were up in arms against a proposal to introduce one year mandatory rural internship for them as part of the MBBS course. Patients suffered due to protest strike from across the country (New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Patna etc). However, Munnabhai's influence of Gandhigiri was evident in Delhi, Patna. In Delhi, girls proposed the minister to marry them while in Patna they resorted to cleaning, wiping. Also, medicos turned to strike due to patients relative mishandling issue demanding security at the hospital premises.
Path- breaking surgery:
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God's special child operated
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Controversies apart, Indian medicos were in news globally for performing two break through surgeries. Doctors of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the Capital added a new chapter in the history of medical science by performing a simultaneous kidney and liver transplant.
It was for the first time that doctors got together to operate two donors and the patient all at the same time. Ganesh Nehru, a Grade 9 student from California was diagnosed with Primary Hyperoxaluria, a condition caused by the shortage of an enzyme in the liver that prevents the buildup of oxalates or stones in the kidney, resulting in the failure of both his kidneys. What made the situtation more critical for him is that his liver too was badly affected which could not produce the much neede enzyme to prevent the build up in the kidneys. His parents brought him to India. His mother donated a kidney and his uncle the liver. The surgery was timed like clockwork since it involved operating on three persons simultaneously in three different operation theatres. Ganesh was first given his new liver and later the kidney.
The other case was the surgery of a 8 limbed two year old girl. Lakshmi, she was an Ischiopagus conjoined twin -- two bodies united at the pelvis. Only one of the twins has a head and the other is a parasite. A complicated 27-hour-long marathon surgical procedure was performed to remove a parasitic conjoined twin. Doctors of Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore subjected the child to a series of medical tests. Later a team of 36 doctors performed the complex surgery during which Lakshmi's pelvic ring has to be reconstructed and her two kidneys saved. According to doctors she (Laxmi) is doing fine. For her parents it was a wish come true as she was not only successfully operated but also because it was done for free.
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