Surgeons of SGRD Hospital Vallah saves another precious life

Amritsar, August 13 (Punjab Post Bureau) – Team of Surgeons of Sri Guru Ram Das Charitable Hospital successfully resuscitated a 22-year-old state hockey player Gurinder Singh S/o Ram Singh by successfully treating him when he was badly burned in a cylinder explosion.

               National level hockey player Sukhmanjit Singh aged 16 years and state level hockey player Gurinder Singh aged 22 years both were badly burnt on 21-05-2020 due to cylinder rupture in their own house. The relatives of patients rushed them to a private hospital, where Sukhmanjit Singh died and Gurinder Singh’s condition was critical. Gurinder Singh was  admitted in Sri Guru Ram Das Charitable Hospital Vallah on 26-05-2020 with 65 percent badly burned skin. Renowned Plastic and Microvascular Surgeon of Amritsar Dr. Vikas Kakkar and his team Dr. Rana Ranjit Singh, Dr. Gurlal Singh, Dr. Rajiv Sharma, Dr. Karanveer Singh, Dr. Anurag Salwan, Dr. Harpreet Kaur, Dr. Anmol Randhawa, Dr. Chatanya, Dr. Amarjot Kaur took care of the patient day and night. Thanks to their tireless day and night efforts, the patient is now well and able to lead a normal life.

              Dr. Manjit Singh Uppal Director Principal said the patient is returning home fully recovered from our hospital in two months at the same cost as the patient’s treatment in the first five days in another private hospital after the accident.

              Dr. Kakkar said such surgeries are very challenging, requiring very difficult and challenging tasks like repairing the patient’s badly burnt limbs, repairing small blood vessels, muscles, which was successfully performed by a team of qualified doctors from the hospital. He said that very badly injured/ infected limbs of the body can be effectively repaired by plastic surgery. He said hospital provides better and cheaper treatment for serious ailments like “Diabetic Foot Ulcer”, “Bed Sore”, “Lymphoedema”, “Leg Ulcer”. That is proving to be a boon for the needy people of Punjab.

                 Dr. A.P. Singh Dean lauded the efforts made by the hospital’s team of specialist doctors to save the patient and thanked God for the patient’s recovery and return home.