Hospitals

RML hospital performs 24 plastic surgeries in 24 hours

City’s Ram Manohar Lohia hospital on Tuesday operated 24 plastic surgeries in the last 24 hours to commemorate the World Plastic Surgery Day held on July 15. The plastic surgery OT began on patients from 9 AM of July 15 to 9 AM of July 16.

The plastic surgery team of 17 surgeons was deployed who carried out 24 operations in the last 24 hours with flawless precision. We chose the patients whose surgeries were postponed and cases needing immediate care,” said Dr Pulin Kumar Gupta.

The hospital said that patients included both male and female between the age group of 6 to 47 years old. Plastic surgery was operated on eight minors and 14 adults. Two minors underwent Bardach’s Palatal Repair and Contracture release with skin grafting procedure. The oldest male, a 47-years-old patient underwent lymphangioma excision plastic surgery.

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