PANAJI
In a rare surgery conducted for the first time in Goa, a team of doctors from Healthway Hospital operated on a 7-month-old child and removed a liver tumour weighing 1.8 kgs. The tumour being 18cm by 18cm by 17cm in size, in a child aged only 7 months and arising from the centre of the liver, made the surgery and subsequent care challenging, technically demanding and potentially associated with life-threatening complications.
The team of doctors involved in the life-changing surgery included Dr. Rahul Kakodkar (Hepatobiliary & Liver Transplant Surgeon), Dr. Vishal Sawant (Pediatric and neonatal surgeon), Dr. Jean Louis Menezes (Oncosurgeon), Dr. Bharati Sawant and Dr. Sandeep Pawar (Anaesthetists) and Dr.Sumant Prabhudessai (Pediatric Intensivist) ably supported by nurses PritiGhadi and Anjali.
