Kolkata, March 16, 2023
Medical Department of Malda Division always striving hard to provide super speciality standard medical facilities to its serving as well as retired employees. In such an endeavour, the Divisional Railway Hospital, Malda conducted a Collar Bone Fixation Surgery yesterday, the first of its kind in the history of Divisional Railway Hospital.
A male retired railway employee, aged about 67 years old was admitted to Divisional Railway Hospital/Malda with history of slip and fall 7 days back with trauma over left shoulder.
Immediately after admission, all preoperative optimisation was completed and complicated surgery of Collar Bone Fixation was done by Titanium Locked Anatomical Clavicular Plate under supraclavicular block by orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Sushovan Banerjee and Anaesthetist Dr. Partha Pratim Bhattacharya, Divisional Medical Officer, Malda. The entire surgery took approx. 2 hours and the implant was procured locally from hospital store. After the complicated surgery the patient is doing well. The unfaltering efforts of Malda medical team was able to bring the patient back to his normal life.
