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 Lifeline Multi-Speciality Hospitals, Chennai, recently
inaugurated the department 'Hepato-Biliary & Pancreatic
Diseases and Gastro Intestinal Bleeding Unit'. The
department was inaugurated by P W C Davidar, Special
Secretary of Health, Government of Tamil Nadu.
For the
first time in a private sector, a comprehensive liver and
pancreas surgery unit has been launched under the
directorship of Prof S Thirunavakkarasu, MS, Mch, Professor
of Surgical Gastroenterology, said Dr J S Rajkumar, chairman
of Lifeline Hospitals.
All aspects of medical and surgical
diseases of these organs will be covered by this unit, which
includes a 24 hour G I bleeding unit manned by qualified
physicians and surgeons.
The gamut of services will run from
stem-cells for chronic liver diseases to surgeries and radio
frequency ablation for liver cancers with a projection for a
liver transplant unit shortly. The 25 patients who underwent
stem cell therapy, the cause of the problem was cryptogenic
as the main, with alcohol or hepatitis viruses present in
the remaining. All have had significant improvement.
"Liver diseases are rampant in India,
mainly because of hepatitis B and C viruses, accounting for
at least 70 million affected Indians, and also due to the
increasing percentage of alcoholic livers in our country.
There is also a huge group of liver disease sufferers, who
have 'cryptogenic' or unknown cause of disease. This being
the case, we are addressing the need of the hour and
starting this department," said Dr Rajkumar.
Also, 24-hour availability of endoscopy,
angiogram, cathlab services, CT, and MRI imaging is an
integral part of this unit.
Lifeline Multi-Speciality Hospital, a
225-bed hospital at Perungudi, Chennai, offers medical care
and consultation with over 50 specialists and
super-specialists in various disciplines. From keyhole
surgery, (the complete spectrum) Lifeline also provides a
comprehensive laser and laparoscopy unit, endoscopy (laser)
stapling procedure for piles, surgery for severe obesity,
liver failure unit, along with facilities for dialysis and
renal transplant, a complete cardiology unit addressing the
needs of cardiac and cardio-thoracic surgery and a complete
neonatal unit with state-of-the-art technology.
R Rangaraj
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