Mangaluru: A rare cancer surgery at Indiana Hospital sees a toddler smile again
Mangaluru – (Press releasse) A rare cancer surgery in performed by a multi-disciplinary team at the Indiana Hospital & Heart Institute here salvaged the limb of a 7-year old afflicted with osteosarcoma, a cancerous tumour in the bone. It was a rare operation as in normal circumstances, doctors would have felt it safer to amputate the child’s arm to save his life.
The patient who was admitted to Indiana Hospital a few days ago, had been diagnosed with high grade osteosarcoma, a primary bone cancer, that had affected his entire arm bone causing persistent pain, rapidly growing swelling and loss of function of the arm, giving him sleepless nights.
After initially subjecting him to chemotherapy for 10 weeks, Dr Navneet Kamath, Orthopedic oncologist at Indiana decided to go for the surgery. The patient’s entire arm bone and shoulder were detached and the tumour cells were removed using liquid oxygen (cryotherapy), and then the bone was re-implanted back onto the body. The successful operation lasted 10 hours.
In most cases, the limb would have had to be amputated as re-implanting would have been a near-impossible task. But Dr Navneet Kamath and team at Indiana Hospital took it as a challenge, and once again proved that the hospital is fully equipped to perform such rare surgeries successfully.
According to Dr. Navneeth, such complicated limb salvaging onco surgeries are usually performed only in metros and big cities, but Indiana has demonstrated that this can be done in two-tier cities like Mangalore as well.
“With this achievement, Mangalore has now become a tertiary medical hub for very rarely-performed oncology surgeries”, Dr. Yusuf Kumble, managing director, Indiana Hospital, said.
Adds Dr Navneeth: “Orthopaedic onco surgery on this part of the body is challenging because of the complex anatomy. In this particular case, complete removal of the tumour as well as saving the limb was taken up as a challenge, and we performed as a team, working towards a common goal of providing the patient the best possible service. People afflicted with bone and soft tissue cancers, if diagnosed and treated early, can be saved. Dedicated orthopaedic oncological surgical procedure can save even patients whose bone and soft tissues are afflicted with 80-90% cancer cells.” Besides Dr. Navneeth Kamat (Orthopaedic Onco-surgeon), the team included Dr. Jalaluddin (Orthopaedic surgeon), Dr. Nikhil and Dr. Harish (Anaesthetists), and Dr. Vasudev Bhat and Dr. Kalashekar (Paediatric Oncologists).
The Department of Surgical Oncology at Indiana Hospital performs all major and supra-major cancer surgeries, providing cancer patients in the region a ray of hope.
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Karnataka Assembly passes bill on Palace Grounds amid opposition protest
Bengaluru, Mar 6 (PTI): The Karnataka Assembly on Thursday passed the Bangalore Palace (Utilisation and Regulation of Land) Bill, reaffirming state ownership over 472 acres and 16 guntas of land here, amid protests by the opposition BJP.
During the discussion, Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil said the state government would have to provide Rs 200 crore worth of Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) for each acre of land, which means that for 15 acres, Rs 3,000 crore worth of TDR would be issued.
“If we accept it, then this 2-km stretch of road will become the costliest road in the world. If we accept it then how are we going to develop the city in later stages? How will you carry out development works?” asked Patil.
He also pointed out that this question was raised not only under the Congress government but also during the previous BJP regime.
However, the BJP-led cabinet has opposed the project.
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“Suppose we agree to it then, what will be the valuation of the 472 acres? It will be lakhs and lakhs of crores of rupees. Can we accept?” Patil wondered.
The Minister said the government had previously exercised its executive powers to issue an ordinance, which was approved by the Governor. Now the government is bringing a bill with two amendments.
“In this bill, we have made provisions either to develop or drop the road development work,” Patil explained.
However, BJP state president B Y Vijayendra and BJP MLA Arvind Bellad opposed the move, alleging that the government was targetting Yaduveer Krishna Datta Chamaraja Wadiyar, the scion of the Mysuru royal family, and the BJP MP from Mysuru-Kodagu constituency out of political vendetta.
“We talk of 472 acres of Mysuru Maharaja but here there are many Maharajas who too own 400 acres, 500 acres and thousands of acres of land, which is known to everyone,” Bellad said.
He slammed the Congress government, saying political power should not be misused for personal vendetta.
“Why (the then Deputy Chief Minister) Siddaramaiah brought the law in 1996 pertaining to the Bangalore Palace? Why are you setting eyes on the Bangalore Palace?” he asked.
Vijayendra charged that Wadiyar won the election on BJP ticket so the state government realised that it should acquire it.
“This bill has been brought for political vengeance. We are not discussing whether Rs 3,000 crore is exorbitant or not but the moment Yaduveer became MP, the state government woke up. You should be ashamed. This house should not be used for political vendetta,” he said.
Intervening, Minister Priyank Kharge said Vijayendra should not have raised it because the intention behind building the road was noble.
According to him, the BJP too had the same plan when it was in power.
He sought to know whether thousands of crores of rupees be spent on a road which should have cost significantly less.
In response, BJP MLA B A Basavaraj (Byrathi) said issuing TDR will not be a burden on the state government and appealed to the ruling Congress to reconsider its stance.
Minister Ramalinga Reddy too explained that the Karnataka government acquired the entire land way back in 1996.
The Mysuru royal family went to the High Court, which gave ruling in favour of the state government. The royal family then approached the Supreme Court, where the case is still going on, the Minister pointed out.
“The final judgment is pending in the SC to decide whether the acquisition was right or wrong. If the SC says it’s the royal family’s property then let it be so. If the order is in the state government’s favour then we can take a decision. The bill is only about it,” Reddy explained.
Speaker U T Khader then called for a voice vote and the bill was passed by the Assembly amidst opposition BJP’s discontent.
