Dr Ashwini Parashar SMS hospital Team is working for poor

After being taunted these medical students became friends of the poor

This happened on 18 June 2016 when a patient who came to SMS hospital for his cure said to Medical student Dr. Ashwini Parashar that doctors are only interested in making money. There are strikes happening here regularly but no one sees the poor patients lying on the hospital floor. 

Dr. Ashwini thought of changing this thought process from people's minds and started distributing clothes and first aid medicines to people sleeping on footpaths at night. Ashwini along with Himanshu Sain, Saurabh Gupta, Jai Gupta, Piyush Sharma, Mohit Tejwani, Shubham Soni, Rajeshwari Singh, Kirti Gera, Ayushi Mittal, Devyanshi Jain, Ekta Meena, Silky Das, Gunjan Sharma, Anju Choudhary and 28 more students joined in this deed. 

They also give free medicines to those who are sick. Around 100 students of 15 colleges have joined this campaign. The MBBS students told about this in various colleges to administration and students and motivated them to start it at their own level. This campaign is known as clothing donation drive - cloth the city. Most students are around 20-22 years of age. This was published on WhatsApp group and students from Delhi, Ajmer, Kota, Jhalawad, Udaipur, Bikaner, Indore, Lucknow, Gorakhpur have also joined hands in this campaign.  

Dr Ashwini Parashar SMS hospital

Critical operation at SMS Hospital Jaipur

The doctors at SMS hospital saved the life of a man by taking out his stomach, pancreas, spleen and a part of large intestine. This operation went on for 8 hours. It was a risky operation since the patient had cancer. That is why all these parts had to be taken out together. The patient was bleeding daily and two unit blood was transfused in him monthly. Around 70 units blood had been transfused in the past 3 years. 

If the parts were not taken out then bleeding wouldn't have stopped and the patient would have died. Brijesh Sharma 54, from Bharatpur, was diagnosed with cancer 3 years back. Slowly the tumor spread to other places. It spread from stomach to pancreas to spleen to large intestine. Dr. Sandeep Jasuja at SMS hospital gave him chemotherapy which helped in reduction of the tumor but bleeding didn't stop. Brijesh kept losing his weight and hemoglobin. He had to transfuse blood each month. The patient was shown by his family members at the gastro department where Dr. Ajay Sharma got a CT scan of the patient and then the operation was decided. 

SMS Hospital Jaipur

His stomach was taken out 75% Pancreas was taken out 75% spleen was taken out completely and big intestine was taken out 30 percent. 

Why is this operation so important : 

• If a single mistake was occurred the patient would have bled and his blood was already very low. 
• Taking out 4 important parts together was a challenge.
• The patient had cancer and this would give respite to him from chemotherapy. 
• This paved the way for such patients in future.  

UnderPass between SMS Hospital and Trauma Center

UnderPass between SMS Hospital and Trauma Center

Dr Anil Sharma of SMS Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery

There would be just one cut to change heart valve and recovery time and cost would be less too

Dr. Anil Sharma of SMS Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery has the purpose of performing mini-thoracotomy open heart surgery to cure the problems of bad valves in the heart. This thesis of Dr Anil has been published in heart India of April- June 2016 edition. He also purports that SMS hospital is the first hospital in the country where valves are being transplanted with minute 5 to 6 mm cuts. He has successfully performed 4 surgeries in last 4 months. 

Dr. US Agarwal of SMS medical college shared that Dr. Sharma has developed a technique of minute cut instead of femoral-femoral bypass surgery. 

At present in normal surgery, there are cuts in three places and a cut of 9 to 10 cm. There is a cut in the leg of about 10 cms which can close the limb artery or cause limb ischemia. In many countries like America, England, France etc surgeons are performing surgery with cuts in three places. 

Mini-thoracotomy technique -

This is a valve repair technique with minute cuts. A minute cut is placed on right side of the patient chest and there is no need for blood transfusion or any danger to the leg. Recovery is quick and the cost is also less. It takes two to three hours to change one valve. 

Rajwanti from Kota 36 years and laadkanwar from Nagpur had leak and shrinkage in both valves, Surendra from Jhunjunu had leak and shrinkage in aortic valve and Sunil from Kaner had both valves faulty. All these people got their lives back through mini-thoracotomy technique. 

SMS hospital starts trial run for liver transplant

SMS hospital starts trial run for liver transplant

Trial run for liver transplant has commenced in SMS hospital. Gastro surgery is conducted in the newly built operation theater for transplant purposes. Also, patients are being put in ICU too but at present, the biggest hurdle in not starting the transplant is the machines which have not been bought yet. Re-tendering has been done for various equipment. This process will complete in a month. The first liver transplant would be done in next month. 

Why did liver transplant got delayed each time:

Since BJP government formation the liver transplant has been purported at SMS.

International Doctor Christopher Berry was also recruited for Liver transplant. 

Berry left the job when liver transplants could not be started on time

Berry started working for liver transplants in a private hospital in Jaipur

Successful live transplants were started in private hospital

Medical minister has given instructions to start it quickly many times 

SMS Professors will act as caretakers os Medcial college students

senior professors and professors would act as caretakers of final year and pre-final year students

Many doctors and professors have come forward for a positive start to make the environment stress free for students at SMS medical college. Now senior professors and professors would act as caretakers of final year and pre-final year students. Teachers will look into students matters from attendance to personal life and will try to provide whatever help they can. This step has been taken to reduce stress among students and increase the quality of their results. At present, the teachers have taken up the responsibility of 400 students at SMS medical college. The teachers would attend to a group of 35 students respectively and keep an eye on their activities. If a student has low attendance then they would be mentored about the situation after knowing the reason. If any student has social, family or financial difficulty then the teachers would try to help them for the same. If any student has problems regarding books or course then also they would be able to discuss it directly with their teachers. 

Why as this started? 

The attendance of many students was coming very low. This was creating a rift between students and teachers. Many students were in a depression. Therefore a meeting was conducted under the guidance of college principal and his decision of teachers becoming caretakers of students was taken. 

Patients will also be benefited 

The college administration feels that after this decision not only the problems of students will be lessened but also they would develop better skills. After some time this positive approach would help them to give a better response to the patients. 

Dr. U.S Agarwal, principal SMS Medical college added that students remain in depression due to many reasons. Sometimes they cannot open up and it affects their results. Also, many students lose attendance because of their problems. At present, we plan to cover final and pre-final year students but in future, we would try to appoint caretakers for all students. If other colleges also start this step it can be very beneficial. 

Brain Surgery done through the nose by Endoscopy

The brain surgery which requires 8 units of blood didn't need a single unit as the operation was done through the nose by endoscopy at SMS

This was one of the first kind of case where the neurosurgeons were operating on a tumor which had grown from nose to the brain. This was seen live by more than 400 national and international doctors live.The surgery started at 9.30 am in the morning and continued till 9 pm at night. Total of five surgeries were done. 

Dr. Henry Shoder from Germany and Dr. Satish Jain, ENT specialist performed this surgery with a team of doctors. As endoscopy was used in this surgery the patient had no blood loss. Around 7 to 8 units of blood had to be transfused but not a single was required. This will have very fewer chances of infection in the patient. This type of operation would require a very less hospital stay for the patient and also costs less. 

Also, Dr. VD Sinha and Dr. Sniderman performed Codoma tumor operations along with Dr. Achal, Dr. Kapil Sikka, and Dr. Rajeev. 

Many junior doctors also took training on this new technique. This happened at the 18th annual conference of skill based surgery society of India's surgery workshop. 

ENT surgeon Dr. Nidhi from SMS hospital shared that this workshop's purpose is to train about Endoscopy surgery and motivate doctors to perform the same. The doctors will reach research papers on Saturday and Sunday. 

International doctors performed live surgery for the first time at SMS hospital. Doctors from USA, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Nepal and Russia participated in this workshop. This was the first workshop of neurosurgeon and ENT which had a live surgery performed by national and international doctors and watched by more than 400 doctors.