Out of them, 260 were cardiology patients, 415 were neurology patients, 263 were under gastroenterology, 229 were under endocrinology, 231 were under nephrology, and 6 were treated through laparoscopic surgery.
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As many as 1,398 critically ill patients from remote areas of Malkangiri district were provided specialist and super-specialist treatment free of cost through a special camp arranged at Malkangiri District Headquarter Hospital from 18 to 21 August under Mukhyamantri Bayu Swasthya Seva Yojana (MBSSY).
Out of them, 260 were cardiology patients, 415 were neurology patients, 263 were under gastroenterology, 229 were under endocrinology, 231 were under nephrology, and 6 were treated through laparoscopic surgery. Besides, ECG and endoscopy diagnoses were done for 130 and 59 patients, respectively, said officials on Friday.
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The team of super-specialists and consultants from SCB Medical College and Hospital joined the camp and treated the patients.
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The team included Dr Kaibalya Ranjan Dash, Asst Prof Gastroenterology; Dr Aujjwalya Kumar Jena, Asst Prof Neurology; Dr Aruna Acharya, Prof Nephrology; Dr Ranjan Kumar Mohanty, Asst Prof Cardiology; Dr Bijay Kumar Sahoo, Assistant Professor Endocrinology; Dr Jyotirmaya Nayak, Associate Prof Surgery; and Dr Raj Mahapatra, Asst Prof Anaesthesia, PGIMER Capital hospital, BBSR.
This team was assisted by another team of senior doctors, namely Dr Dhirej Kumar Lenka from Nephrology, Dr Sanghamitra Sahoo from Neurology, Dr Sitakanta Panda from Endocrinology, and Dr Avansh Taunk from Cardiology Department.
The assisting team reached Malkangiri one day before to conduct a case history of each patient and prepare them for clinical interventions. The ICU, along with modern equipment and machinery, was installed before the camp for various tests, clinical procedures, and treatment, they added.
The successful organisation of a camp of this nature infused a degree of satisfaction among the people and intelligentsia of the district.
The previous BJD-led government in 2023 had launched the MBSSY in a bid to strengthen the healthcare delivery system and provide super-specialty health services to all the needy people of remote districts, where healthcare is unreachable or difficult to reach. The scheme envisaged that a team of medical experts from medical colleges would move by air to far-flung districts along with necessary equipment to provide super specialty medical treatment and therapeutic interventions to the identified patients. The health service of this nature is being implemented in the backward districts of Nuapada, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, and Malkangiri in pilot mode.
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