Keyhole surgery at KIMSHEALTH cures three year old boy having bowel movement problem

Multi-speciality hospital also bears a major part of the expenses

Trivandrum / August 5, 2022

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 05: KIMSHEALTH cures a three-year-old boy having congenital bowel movement problem through keyhole surgery, with the multi-specialty hospital bearing a major part of the treatment expense as its social responsibility.

The toddler from Tamil Nadu had earlier undergone medical treatment from several hospitals before and the doctors stated that surgery was the only solution to his Hirschsprung's Disease (also called congenital megacolon). At this, the child's parents brought the child to KIMSHEALTH in this city.

The doctors at KIMSHEALTH’s pediatric department, on examining the boy who suffered from poor bowel movement since birth, referred him to the paediatric surgeon. The specialist diagonised that the issue was owing to missing nerve cells in the colon muscles and suggested a keyhole surgery after a biopsy near the anus confirmed Hirschsprung's Disease.

The hospital learned that the patient’s middle-class family had not enrolled under any health insurance scheme and that the major illness had already drained them of resources. Authorities thus informed the parents that KIMSHEALTH would bear the treatment expenses, above their capacity.

The surgery was a success, according to Dr Reju Joseph Thomas, Minimal Access Surgeon at KIMSHEALTH’s Department of Pediatric Surgery. “However, an unexpected emergency arose the next day, leading us to perform one more operation,” he reveals. “This meant the patient had to remain in the hospital for another ten days, and exceeded the expected bill. The boy has now been discharged and is at home. But he will have to be brought back to the hospital in a few months to undergo a final surgery to bring back the child to normal life.”  The parents of the child are relived that their child is now free of the suffering, which the child underwent for the past three years.

Dr Reju Joseph Thomas was assisted in the surgery by Dr Aswathy Ravikumar and Pediatric Anesthesiologist Dr Mathew Chacko Ramacha.

KIMSHEALTH Trivandrum is a two-decade-old state-of-the-art quaternary-care hospital with 18 paediatric subspecialities besides paediatric transplant and 24 hour-pediatric emergency. It has centres in Kerala’s Kollam, Kottayam and Perinthalmanna, and abroad in Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE.