BY TC News Desk
Agartala: Aug 04. Chief Minister Prof. (Dr.) Manik Saha congratulated the expert doctors and other medical staff involved in a complex successful surgery. Specialist doctors of Agartala Government Medical College and Atal Bihari Vajpayee Regional Cancer Center yesterday performed a complex surgery on a cancerous tumor in the skull bone of a patient.
The Chief Minister expressed the opinion that this success of the doctors has created a new milestone in the medical services of the state. It is to be noted that this complex surgery of a 32-year-old woman was done yesterday in the neurosurgery department of AGMC. A team of 10 specialist doctors completed this successful surgery over a long period of time.
According to a press release from the Department of Health and Family Welfare, expert doctors from Atal Bihari Vajpayee Regional Cancer Center and Department of Neurology, Agartala Government Medical College and GBP Hospital have completed the surgical procedure for the cancerous tumor in the skull bone. The 32-year-old woman had a large cancerous tumor attached to her skull bone. Specialist doctors from the neurosurgery team of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Regional Cancer Center and Agartala Government Medical College and GBP Hospital on August 3 performed a complex surgical procedure to remove part of the tumor along with the bones of the woman’s skull, skin grafting with titanium mesh and posterior scalp rotation flap, and bilateral neck dissection. The complex neuro surgery was performed in an eight-hour effort by a team of 10 combat doctors from the neurosurgery team of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Regional Cancer Center and AGMC & GBP Hospital.
