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Now she can walk after rare surgery
DEPARTMENT OF Orthopaedic Moti Lal Nehru Medical College has created a history by successfully performing first-ever total hip replacement surgery using an international technique and implants called, Modular Total Hip Replacement System.
DEPARTMENT OF Orthopaedic Moti Lal Nehru Medical College has created a history by successfully performing first-ever total hip replacement surgery using an international technique and implants called, Modular Total Hip Replacement System.
The breakthrough surgery was performed by a team of surgeons led by Dr DC Srivastava, lecturer, recently on a 60-year-old women suffering from hip degeneration and fracture. The advantage was that the lady was able to sit and walk within 24 hours and will not need implant replacement for another 25 years.
The technique which is widely used in America and UK but is rare even in private sector hospitals in India, due to huge expenditure, cost just Rs 40,000 at the SRN Hospital.
Resident of Naini, 60-year-old Bittan Devi suffered from hip degeneration and the fracture which affected her mobility. Unable to sit or stand on her own, orthopaedic surgeon and lecturer Dr DC Srivastava decided to perform total hip replacement using internationally acclaimed technique and implants knows as 'Modular Total Hip Replacement System'.
"The implants were supplied by the same multi-national company (MNC) which supplies to the best orthopaedic clinics and hospitals in America and UK. It is one of the most advance implants used in the world, which has a life span of 25 years and was probably used for the first time in government medical college in UP.
These implants have less chances of failure and have bigger leverage in comparison to indigenous implants," explained Dr Srivastava.
Dr Srivastava said Bittan Devi has to foot a bill of only Rs 38,000 for implants and about Rs 2000 for anti-biotics.
The cost of these implants was slightly higher than local implants which are available for Rs 12,000 to 15,000. But again in private hospital this surgery would have cost around Rs 1.25 lakh.
"The technique, however, is also very useful in osteo arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and fracture of neck femur," he added.
Patient Bittan Devi, who was happy to walk without any support after the surgery, said she had lost all hopes of leading a normal life after the fracture.
"But now after surgery I can stand and even walk without anyone's help," she said, with a beatific smile.
