PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Dec 15: The department of Cardiac surgery of the Brahmananda Narayana Multispeciality Hospital ( BNMS ), at Tamolia in the outskirts of Jamshedpur has completed 3000 cardiac operations successfully.
With this, the leading cardiac hospital of the state has achieved another milestone in the field of healthcare.
Brahmananda Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, is a unit of Narayana Health, Bangalore in association with Brahamanada Sewa Sadan of Jamshedpur, is established by renowned cardiac surgeon Dr Devi Shetty.
The state-of-art super speciality hospital is run by highly qualified and trained doctors and paramedical staff to deliver the highest degree of quality cardiac care at an affordable price.
Dr.Perwaiz Alam, senior consultant Cardiac Surgeon, and his team completed 3000 cardiac surgeries since its inception with a success rate of 97.9 %.
This comprises 1276 bypass surgery, 857 valve surgery, 766 congenital heart surgery (heart disease in children since birth) , 57 vascular surgery and 44 thoracic and other close heart procedures.
Out of 3000 patients, 1877 were from Jharkhand, 594 from West Bengal, 376 from Orissa, 123 from Bihar, 26 from Uttar Pradesh. There were four patients from neighbour countries, one each from Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Yemen.
There were 56 NRIs, mostly from Jamshedpur and neighbouring states, who were staying abroad but got operation done at BNMH, because of cost implications.
