The surgery known as “micro-invasive laparoscopic cholecystectomy or needloscopy” was performed by Dr H.S. Jolly, Chief Laparoscopic Surgeon at the centre, who was assisted by Dr Anand Sehgal, Urologist, and Dr Bhupinder Pal Singh, Consultant Anesthesiologist.

Dr Jolly informed that Anisha had been complaining of pain in the abdomen for close to a year but all medications had failed to help her. With time, she also developed recurrent nausea and vomiting along with generalised weakness. As her symptoms worsened, her parents brought her to city hospital.

“Thorough examination and investigations revealed that Anisha had a stone in her gall bladder, which was the reason for her agony. She was admitted to the hospital on May 8 where the child underwent needloscopy on May 9. In this procedure, state-of-the-art miniature laparoscope (4 mm), also known as needloscope, was used and only three very small holes of 5 mm were made through the abdomen. After 72 hours of observation, the patient was found to have fully recovered.”

Dr Jolly said gall stones were earlier treated conventionally by open cholecystectomy, but with the development of laparoscopy and minimal invasive surgical techniques, laparoscopic cholecystectomy was the treatment of choice even in children. Dr Jolly claimed that the advantages of needloscopy over the routine laparoscopic surgery were invisible scar, lesser hospital stay, lesser pain and lesser requirement of medication.

Moreover, the minimal invasive surgery, or for that matter a procedure like needloscopy, was not that expensive and cost almost the same like traditional surgery, if shorter stay in the hospital and fast recovery were taken in consideration.

Hospital provided kidney stone treatment without surgery by siemens lithotripsy. The siemens lithotripsy is a highly advanced non-invasive procedure done with the help of the 4th generation siemens lithotriptor with ultrasound attachment that uses highly focused electro-magnetic waves projected from outside the body to crush kidney stones in the urinary system.

Addressing a press conference, Dr. Chan Bir Singh, Director, RG Stone and Super Speciality Hospital, said, “RG Hospitals are known all over India for best treatment, highly-trained doctors and surgeons, state-of-the-art equipment and risk-free procedures. With this free check-up camp, it is our endeavor to bring the best in the medicine to the masses who under normal circumstances cannot afford such check-ups.”