Ludhiana becoming popular as a medical hub
Author(s): City Air NewsA related photograph. Ludhiana, December 3, 2015: Medical Tourism in India is being promoted and becoming popular among NRIs due to heavy costs of medical treatment in foreign countries. Similarly, Ludhiana is also...
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Ludhiana, December 3, 2015: Medical Tourism in India is being promoted and becoming popular among NRIs due to heavy costs of medical treatment in foreign countries. Similarly, Ludhiana is also becoming popular as a medical hub for the residents of neighboring states like J&K, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan.
DMCH Ludhiana is presently providing specialized medical and surgical services to people of the region and lot many complicated cases have been successfully treated so far in Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at DMCH comprises a very talented and multidisciplinary team of doctors including Dr Ashima Taneja (Professor & Head), Dr Suman Puri (Professor), Dr Sunil Juneja (Professor), Dr Shweta Gupta (Associate Professor), Dr Pooja Tandon (Assistant Professor), Dr Asmita Mahla (Consultant & IVF Incharge) and Dr Kanupriya Jain (Assistant Professor) who constantly strive to make the department an apex centre of patient care in the region, offering the full spectrum of general and specialty gynecological and obstetrical care.
In a rare complicated case of Laparoscopic Surgery done recently, patient ‘Sumita’ from Delhi was presented to the hospital under the treatment of Dr Ashima Taneja. The patient had problem of heavy menstrual bleeding for the past five months and was suffering from acute abdominal pain. Earlier, she was undergoing treatment in a multispecialty hospital at Delhi where she was transfused three units of blood due to low hemoglobin (6 gms). The patient, when undergoing treatment at Delhi, was diagnosed having multiple fibroids corresponding to 6-7 months of pregnancy and largest measuring was about 12x10.5x15 cms. She was refused Laproscopic surgery there as the size of fibroids was very large. Then, she came to DMCH Ludhiana for treatment. Dr Ashima Taneja examined her and her uterus was removed laparoscopically inspite of rejecting the same procedure earlier due to presence of multiple fibroids. The patient with large fibroids usually have problems of primary infertility, heavy menstrual bleeding, pain in abdomen, anaemia and generalized weakness.
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology has been successfully performing laparoscopic surgeries for curing early- stage gynaecological cancer and extensive abdominal surgeries, previous 3 casearean sections with co-morbid medical illness like heart diseases etc, morbid obesity (140 kgs) and other related illness, informed Dr Ashima Taneja.
Date:
Thursday, December 3, 2015
