Four heart specialists from Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai are leading a team of doctors operating upon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at AIIMS on Saturday. The 11-member team from AHI led by Ramakant Panda is heading the team of doctors who are performing the bypass graft surgery on 76-year-old Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Helping them would be doctors and technical staff drawn from different departments of AIIMS.
The team from the AHI includes Panda and Pradyot Kumar Rath, both cardio-vascular thoracic surgeons, Vijay Desilva, ICU specialist besides Narendra Garach, cardiac anesthetist among others, hospital sources said.
Ramakant Panda, currently the Vice-Chairman and Cardio Vascular Thoracic Surgeon at AHI has received cardiac surgery training from AIIMS itself besides doing a fellowship training at Cleaveland Clinic, USA.
He has over 13 years of experience and is credited with being among the first surgeons in the country to introduce the concept of total arterial revascularization , as well as being one of the pioneers of off-pump bypass surgery and redo bypass surgery.
According to the AHI, under leadership of Panda, his team has performed over 10,000 bypass surgeries. He is also credited with performing more than 700 repeat (redo) bypass surgeries as well as more than 1,500 high-risk surgeries.
Interestingly, Panda, who has conducted operations in most of famous hospitals of Mumbai, including Jaslok, Breach Candy, Lilavati and Nanavati hospital, has been awarded the Rashtriya Samman for being one of the highest tax payers during the assessment years 1994-95 to 1998-99 by the Central Board of Taxes.
Pradyot Kumar Rath, who completed his MBBS and MS (General Surgery) from Berhampur University and went on to complete his M CH Cardio Vascular Thoracic Surgery from Pune University is considered to be a specialist in off-pump (beating heart) Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. He has performed more than 1,000 coronary artery bypass surgeries on beating heart.
16 comments:
I'm sure everyone knew about Dr Panda - But Dr Rath from Berhampur University came as a surprise.
Guess what Dr Singh had to say to both the Oriyas after the operation?
Choo kar mere man ko kiya tune kya ishara...Tuhi mera Jeevan Tuhe jeene ka Sahaara!
Did he really say that? or is it one of your wisecracks as usual!
Yeah, it was great to know about them heading the team.
Wonder whether they were Abbajaan's students at some point...
Hey, Faiyaz, nice to have you back in out midst.
The blog feels homely once again!!
Tas, Our PM has better things to say....
By the way I'm sure Dr Rath must have come to Prof Raza Rasools residence at some point - You must have served him Tea and spilled on him too - Try to recollect!
Will check it out with my sis i.e the part about Dr. Rath and Prof. Rasool.
As regards, the tea spilling, I guess we'll never know ;-)
Now don't spill the beans...
'He has performed more than 1,000 coronary artery bypass surgeries on beating heart'
My Heart is beating...Keeps on repeating!
OMG, Faiyaz n Omkar...you guyz are the limit.
& yes, about the tea spilling....you'll never know ;D !!!
faiyaaz is pulling a fast one. according to the doctors singh was in no position to sing. so it was the doctors who sang to cheer him up, " tere dil mein aaj kya hai tu kahe to hum bataa dein"
For all you know he might be a SVC Product?
If so....Rope him in!
GOL!!!
The nurses at AIIMS were from Kerala, the ward boys were from Haryana, the security guards were from Silchar, the cashier at AAIMS was a Tamilian from Kumbakonam, the anaesthetist was a former Marxist speaker (now sleep inducer)from Kolkata, and the vistors were visting protestors from UP and Rajasthan --and the heart, yes, the heart belonged to the people of India....
Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani...
The PM is not new to Orissa---after all, his son-in-law is an Oriya I.P.S. officer.
So I think he must have understood all the confabulations between Dr Panda and Dr Rath!!
Folks
After all " SINGH IS KINNG "
I feel great whenever I read about folks from Orissa who have made a name for themselves. And if the person is from Berhampur, then it’s icing on the cake… One can very well imagine the efforts both the doctors must have put in to reach where they are today.
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