Media Release
Udupi, Feb 21: Kasturba Hospital Manipal, organized an advanced paediatric surgical programme for children up to 16 years of age, ‘Bal Shalya Kriya Mission-Manipal’ in collaboration with Peedh Parai Foundation, Houston (USA) and Bantwal Ananth Mallya Charitable Trust from February 5 to 10. Thirty-seven children were provided free advanced surgical treatment. One child would be discharged by this weekend. The thirty six other children were discharged after the surgical treatment and they are doing well after treatment.
Dr Avinash Shetty, medical superintendent, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal said, “An eight-member specialists’ team from Houston, USA and Germany led the ‘Bal Shalya Kriya Mission-Manipal’ and they were supported by team of 32 including surgeons and anaesthetists from Kasturba Hospital here. The ‘Bal Shalya Kriya Mission-Manipal’ in collaboration with Peedh Parai Foundation, Houston (USA) and Bantwal Ananth Mallya Charitable Trust represented by Jeethendra Nayak an alumnus of MIT, Manipal. He was supported by Sudhir Shetty another alumni from MIT, Manipal for the arrangements for the Surgical team.
According to Dr Vijaykumar, head of department of Paediatric Surgery, Kasturba Hospital Manipal, six children have undergone Urethroplasty where the urethral tube which was absent was reconstructed using other body tissues. Another two kids underwent Ureteric Re-Implantation for their reflux problems. Three children underwent minimal access Thoracoscopy with Thorocotomy in which surgery was done to remove and test whether there was malignancy.
Three other kids underwent surgery of thorax to prevent herniation of abdominal contents into thorax. One kid underwent Pycloplasty in which defect in the kidney is corrected through Laproscopic surgery. Yet another two kids underwent Spleenactomy and Spleenorenal shunt for correction of portal hypertension by shunting the portal blood into systemic circulation. One child underwent Cosmetic repair of the cleft lip done. And another underwent removal of Haemangioma containing cluster of vessels.