Under Ayushman Bharat Yojana, first open-heart surgery successfully performed free of cost at Tripura's hospital

The whole operation was done free of cost as the patient is a beneficiary of the Ayushman Bharat scheme

NewsBharati    22-Jan-2022 15:52:48 PM
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New Delhi, Jan 22: In a significant development under the Centre's Ayushman Bharat Yojana, the first open-heart surgery was successfully performed at Tripura's Agartala Government Medical College and GB Pant Hospital, free of cost.
 
Under Ayushman Bharat Yojana, first open-heart surgery successfully performed free of cost at Tripura's hospital 

Madhabi Rani Das, 46, hailing from Udaipur underwent open-heart surgery on January 21 at GBP hospital. Notably, the whole operation was done free of cost as the patient is a beneficiary of the Ayushman Bharat scheme.

The successful operation took 5 hours. The patient is currently in a stable state. Dr Kanak Narayan Bhattacharjee, consultant and In-charge, Concultant of the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (CTVS) & IR department, Dr Anindya Sundar Trivedi, and Dr Surjit Pal headed a team of 15 specialists that performed the operation.

Addressing reporters, the Principal of Agartala Medical College, Manjushri Roy said, "We are pleased to inform you all that a complex operation like open-heart surgery is performed successfully at GBP hospital Agartala. This will help the patients from across the state to get tertiary care at their doorstep."


Asked whether more such operations would be performed in the future, Roy replied, "These operations are very critical in nature and require a lot of preparation for both the patients as well as the doctors. With limited resources, we can't do two surgeries a day but yes this is a constant process."

Speaking exclusively to ANI, Dr Kanak Narayan Bhattacharjee, CTVS department at the GB Pant Hospital said, "This is for the first time such a surgery has been performed under my observation. All the technicians, anesthesiologists and staff nurses played a very crucial role in this complicated surgery."

She further informed that the cath lab (an examination room in a hospital or clinic with diagnostic imaging equipment used to visualize the arteries of the heart and the chambers of the heart and treat any stenosis or abnormality found) started its journey in July last year. In this intervening period, a total of 124 cath lab procedures have been successfully completed that include coronary angiogram, temporary and permanent pacemaker implantation and digital subtraction angiography etc.

Apart from that, a total of three heart and vascular surgeries were performed including recent open-heart surgery. All the patients went home back without any mortality, she said.