Sri Lanka adopts city doctor’s hernia treatment
Mid-day: A new method of inguinal hernia operations developed by Pune-based surgeon Dr Mohan Desarda is now being adopted by Sri Lanka. The technique will be used there as the first choice for the benefit of the patient.
The College of Surgeon of Sri Lanka, an apex body of the Sri Lankan surgeons, had recently invited Desarda to project his new theories that prevent hernia formation.
“The chances of recurrence are next to nil,” he claimed.He also gave them a video demonstration of the new technique last month.
As a result of the lecture-demonstration, the Sri Lankan government can save millions of foreign currency spent on purchasing the mesh and treating its complication.
“No mesh is now required in this new method and it gives complete cure from hernia,” said Desarda. In fact, no new foreign body is used in his new operation technique.
According to Desarda, the operation is conducted under local or spinal anesthesia and the patient can be discharged within 24 hours.
The patient can also carry luggage and travel, bend, squat or climb stairs soon. “Normally, the patient can drive within four days,” he said.
Desarda’s technique has also been adopted as a first choice in countries like Poland, Ukraine and Cuba.
Affordable to all “I did not patent the technique, as it should be affordable to the poorest of the poor in our country,” said Desarda. In the last 10 years, he had operated over 1,500 cases of inguinal hernia cases in Pune alone.
Most of the hernias develop in the abdomen, when a weakness in the abdominal wall evolves into a localised hole, or defect, through which adipose tissue or abdominal organs covered with peritoneum may protrude.
Another common hernia involves the spinal discs and causes sciatica.
Hernias may or may not be present either with pain at the site, a visible or palpable lump, or in some cases by more vague symptoms resulting from pressure on an organ, which is ’stuck’ in the hernia. Fatty tissue usually enters a hernia first, but it may be followed or accompanied by an organ.
Most of the time, hernias develop when pressure in the compartment of the residing organ is increased, and the boundary is weak.
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