Naveen Congratulates AIIMS Bhubaneswar Doctors for Successfully Performing Rare Joint Replacement Surgery

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has congratulated the team of doctors of AIIMS Bhubaneswar on successfully performing rare quadruple joint replacement surgery on a woman from Kendrapara.

The Chief Minister also expressed his happiness that the State Government’s Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) is saving people from out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure and saving precious lives.

“Congratulate the team of doctors of AIIMS Bhubaneswar on successfully performing rare quadruple joint replacement surgery on a woman from #Kendrapara. Glad that our pioneering #BSKY is saving people from out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure and saving precious lives”, the CM tweeted.

Congratulate the team of doctors of @AIIMSBhubaneswr on successfully performing rare quadruple joint replacement surgery on a woman from #Kendrapara. Glad that our pioneering #BSKY is saving people from out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure and saving precious lives. #OdishaCares https://t.co/xTjE08YFf1

— Naveen Patnaik (@Naveen_Odisha) February 13, 2023

The surgery was conducted on a 37-year-old female patient from Aul block of Kendrapara district. She was admitted to AIIMS Bhubaneswar with severely painful arthritic knee and hip joints of both sides.

She was suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and was on numerous medications. Unfortunately, she was crippled because of severe arthritic involvements of the hips and knees. There were no movements in the hip joints and she had very little movement in both the knees. She needed replacement surgeries of all four joints. The patient was evaluated by a team of doctors and planned for surgeries of both the hip and knee joints in one setting.

Four joint replacements at one setting incur numerous challenges to the patient and surgeon. The replacements of the hips were performed first followed by the knees. The surgery was completed in three hours.

The patient was managed in ICU for two days and adequate pain relief was provided. She started walking on the third day and was happy with the outcomes. The cost of the implants and surgery were provided by the state government through BSKY.

This is the second case to be reported globally and first of its kind in Odisha where all four joints were replaced in one setting. Previously only one such case has been reported from AIIMS Delhi in which an Odia patient was operated with all four joints replaced in one setting.