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'Siamese surgery not costly'
Dr Yarlagadda Nayudamma is a doctor who takes the Hippocratic oath seriously. Social commitment is not an empty word for him.
Dr Yarlagadda Nayudamma is a doctor who takes the Hippocratic oath seriously.
While Rs 4.5 crore is what it is going to cost to save Sabah and Farah, the three successful Siamese separation surgeries he has done so far at the Guntur Government General Hospital (GGH) cost the parents not a farthing. A fourth set of conjoined twins are now in the process of separation under his care���also for free.
No awards have been bestowed on him for this breathtaking achievement. Not that the doc has ever noticed. "We have to repay our debt to society, I am a fully contented man," he says. Over a career spanning 30 years, the son of a rich landowner never felt the need to start a private practice.
"If you talk of money the very soul of everything is lost." Until his retirement as chief paediatric surgeon in May, all of Dr Nayudamma's remarkable work was done at the nondescript Government General Hospital at Guntur, a town known more for its red hot chillis and tobacco than superlative surgery.
The case of Sabah and Farah from Bihar now captivating Delhi has brought Dr Nayudamma into the limelight at last. Doctors at Delhi's Apollo Hospital suddenly discovered this surgeon from the back of beyond who has performed audacious surgeries with nary a notice.
The first of them dates back to 1992 when he successfully separated Ram and Laxman, siamese twins fused by the skull���the trickiest variant of this rare phenomenon. The boys, now 16, are happy attending school with no signs of any abnormality.
The next case of Siamese twins that the doctor���who passed out from GMC and took a post-graduate degree from Delhi's AIIMS���was in 1993. Anjali and Geetanjali were joined at the chest and abdomen. Their hearts stopped just short of being fused.
After discussions with his team, Dr Nayudamma operated on the twins. The kids are fine now, aged 15 and going to school. In 1998 came the case of Rekha and Surekha, who were separated by Dr Nayudamma, and are healthy seven-year-olds now.
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