: As an initiative to sensitise people on available treatment for bone and joint disorders, city based Aster Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences (MIMS) has performed a Scoliosis surgery on a 16-year-old girl.
The surgery was conducted yesterday as an observance of "Bone and Joint Day" for the girl, who had come from Aluva, to Aster MIMS with deformity in alignment of the spine giving rise to a side-to-side curvature called 'scoliosis', a release from MIMS said today.
As the degree of curvature was large, it was decided to treat it surgically and a team of surgeons under Dr Suresh S Pillai, Senior Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Surgeon conducted the surgery, the release said.
Considering that the disability would affect her future, if not treated, while treatment would enable the girl live a normal life, it was decided to conduct the surgery free of cost as the family could not afford it.
Dr Pillai said the purpose of observing the Day is not only to create awareness among bone and joint problems.
The surgery was succesful and the girl was expected to be discharge after five days, he said.
On a request from Indian Orthopaedic Association in 2012, the Union Health Ministry decided to observe 'Bone and Joint Day' on August 4 every year to focus on treatment related issues concerning bones and joints and create awareness among people on the growing problems related to bones and joints, the release added.
