Dr. S Vidyadhara, HOD & consultant, spine surgery, spine care, Manipal Hospital in Bengaluru, was in Kolkata a few days ago to interact ...
Dr. S Vidyadhara, HOD & consultant, spine surgery, spine care, Manipal Hospital in Bengaluru, was in Kolkata a few days ago to interact with the media about the innovations in spine surgeries. Accompanying him were some patients who had successfully undergone complicated surgeries and wanted to share their stories post-recovery.
Dr. Vidyadhara
is the founder and pioneer in developing the spine care centre, the
first of its kind in India at Manipal Hospital in 2008 and has been offering
great surgical outcomes at par with international standards since then to
patients from across the world with complex spinal disorders.
Dr Vidyadhara says, “In the past
15 years, we have treated all age groups of patients, uniformly with a success
rate of more than 99%. We have performed over 12,850 surgeries so far. Today’s
event is to share with you the post-surgical experience of people and how well
they have integrated back to normal life.
The
recovering patients included Suchanda Ghoshal who was operated on at the age of 15 years for complex severe thoracolumbar
kyphoscoliosis (hunchback) by Dr. Vidyadhara over a decade ago, Chanda
Chakravarthy, a tea-shop owner from Kolkata had came
to Bangalore and underwent spinal surgery over 12 years ago. Not only did she
recover well, but she also got back to work just after a month of surgery and
still continues to work in her tea shop. Rakhi underwent
surgery for a tumour on her spinal bone over 8 years ago.
“There should
be more centres of excellence for particular diseases,” said Dr Vidyadhara
adding that focus should be on dedication to your work along with fixed
salaries which will certainly enhance services rendered by doctors. “I feel
that the technology is there but there should be a willingness on the part of
the people to adopt it and learn.”
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