Ahmedabad docs give woman with serious blood disorder, hip pain new hope
The Ahmedabad Civil Hospital has successfully performed a high-risk total hip replacement on a woman suffering from Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). This serious blood disorder significantly increases the risk of excessive bleeding during surgery, hospital officials said on Saturday.
The woman, Sangeeta Trivedi, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, underwent the complex procedure free of cost at the government-run hospital after reportedly being informed by several private hospitals that the surgery would cost between Rs three lakh and Rs five lakh and carried a high risk because of her medical condition.
Medical Superintendent Dr Rakesh Joshi said the successful surgery by the Department of Orthopaedics demonstrated the capability of government hospitals to provide highly specialised ...









