Surgeons save lives and redefine the cost of reliable healthcare
THE life of Sunita, 25, was saved by a series of coincidences the other day. She was very ill with a foetus festering in one of her fallopian tubes and blood collecting by the liter in her abdomen. Left like that. she would have died. like so many women do in remote parts of Uttar Pradesh because they can’t find affordable medical help. Sunita’s family had all but given up hope of saving her when chance encounters delivered her to the Rural Medicare Centre at Village Saidulajab, on the outskirts of Saket in South Delhi.
Once an ultrasound confirmed her complicated condition. The physicians at the Centre were quick to act The gynaecologist. Dr Seema Malhotra. said that she would operate. Blood was needed. for which Sunita’s husband and some well-wishers went to the White Cross blood bank in East of Kailash. By the time they returned. braving Delhi’s deadly evening traffic. Dr Malhotra was in her surgeon’s gear and waiting to begin the operation. A statement in Hindi was ready for Sunita’s husband to sign. tt said that her condition was very delicate and she could die on the table.