STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Post-Graduate Department of Orthopaedics, Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu conducted a workshop on total knee replacements under the aegis of Indian Orthopaedic Association.
The workshop was conducted under the patronship of Dr Shashi Sudan Sharma, Principal and Dean GMC Jammu.
The workshop was organised under the chairmanship of Dr Sanjeev Gupta, Professor and Head, Orthopaedics Deptt of GMC Jammu. Dr Abdul Ghani, Prof and Head of the unit, was the Organising Secretary and Dr Anju Jamwal, HOD of Anaesthesia was the co-chairperson of the workshop. The star studded national faculty included Dr Ronen Roy, President Indian Arthroplasty Association from Kolkata; Dr Rajeev Sharma, Chairperson Indian Arthroplasty Association from Delhi; Dr Mrinal Sharma, Head of Department of Orthopaedics Amrita Hospital, Delhi; Dr Narinder Parmar, Robotic knee surgeon from Gujarat; Dr Manuj Wadhwa, Chairman and Executive Director Elite Institute of Orthopaedics Chandigarh; Dr Avtar Singh, Chairman Orthopaedics Amandeep Group of Hospitals, Amritsar; Dr Mohit Arora Chairman Orthopaedics Fortis Hospital, Amritsar; Dr Manish K Varshney from Narayana Hospital Jammu; Dr Rajesh Kapila, HOD Orthopaedics GMC Amritsar; Dr Gurpreet Goel from Moga and Dr Aditya Bhardwaj, Arthroplasty Consultant SGRD hospital Amritsar. Three live total knee replacement surgeries were demonstrated for a variety of knee pathologies. First patient was operated using conventional total knee replacement method by Dr Ronen Roy. The second patient was operated using robotic technique by Dr Narinder Parmar. The third patient had complex revision knee replacement done by Dr Mrinal Sharma. The anaesthesia team comprised of Dr Anita Vij, Dr Rajesh Mahajan, Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Wani and Dr Neha Dang. It is pertinent to mention that all the three cases were operated free of cost under PMJAY scheme.
The implants for the surgery were facilitated by medical superintendent, Dr Narinder S Bhutyal and Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr Rehana Khurshid. Administrator Ashwani Khujuria provided personnel for conducting smooth surgeries. Dr Kailash Thakur, Consultant Surgery GMC Jammu was invited as guest in the workshop.
Around 94 orthopaedic doctors from Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and J&K participated in the workshop.
Other eminent faculty members from orthopaedic department who organised the course included Dr Bias Dev, Dr Manish Singh, Dr Tahir Afzal, Dr Anoop Kumar, Dr Farid Hussain, Dr Neeraj Mahajan, Dr Sumeet Charak, Dr Rahul Mahajan, Dr Shafiq Hackla, Dr Sumitpal Singh, Dr Amit Thakur, Dr Rishabh Gupta and Dr Khalid Muzaffar.
People from Jammu region do not need to go out of Jammu for Orthopaedic ailments as all kinds of orthopaedic surgeries are done in GMC Jammu.