Agartala, May 31: A team of doctors at Tripura Medical College (TMC) and Dr BRAM Teaching Hospital has successfully conducted a complex surgery on a two-day-old infant born with a rare and life-threatening congenital condition.
The baby, born to a family from Melaghar in Sepahijala district, was diagnosed before birth with left-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a condition in which abdominal organs move into the chest cavity through an abnormal opening in the diaphragm, affecting lung development and breathing.
The anomaly was detected during a prenatal scan at 32 weeks of pregnancy, following which doctors planned a specialised treatment protocol in advance.
The child was delivered via caesarean section at AGMC and GBP Hospital on May 19 and was immediately shifted to the Paediatric Surgery Department at TMC and Dr BRAM Teaching Hospital for emergency care.
On May 20, when the infant was just two days old, a surgical team led by paediatric and neonatal surgeon Aniruddha Basak performed a two-hour operation to repair the diaphragm and reposition the displaced organs.
Hospital authorities said the procedure was successful and the baby showed steady post-operative recovery, with expectations of discharge after normal feeding and further improvement.
Medical experts described CDH as a rare but serious condition requiring highly specialised neonatal care and timely surgical intervention. They credited the success to coordinated efforts by surgeons, neonatologists, anaesthesiologists, nursing staff and the Special Newborn Care Unit team.
