“Motherhood Hospital Successfully Operates On A 1-Day-Old Baby”
by Priya Jadhav ~A rare Cyst was removed from A New-born’s Left Lung~ Pune, January , 2020 : A team of Paediatric Surgeons at Motherhood Hospitals Kharadi successfully operated upon a 1-day-old baby. Baby Ruchika (name changed for confidential purposes) was born with a congenital defect, wherein there were fluid filled cysts being formed in the lung cavity. It was a delicate and critical condition wherein the survival and later the prognosis of the baby could have been compromised. The doctors at the hospital helped a new-born baby girl breathe freely by initially removing fluid from the cyst that was present in her left lung by aspiration process and later performing a lung lobectomy (surgery to remove one of the lobes of the lung) immediately 1 day after birth. The baby is now home and doing well. Dr Rajeshwari Pawar, Gynaecologist -Obstetrician, Motherhood Hospital Kharadi, Pune highlighted, “The foetus was diagnosed to have a type 1 Congenital Cyst...