Osmania General Hospital doctors have performed a complex liver surgery to remove huge benign tumor using key hole surgery (Laparoscopic method), rather than opting for open surgery. The doctors said that this is the first time such a surgery has been performed in any of the government hospitals across India, and rarely conducted in private health facilities too. It costs ₹15 lakh at corporate hospitals.
The procedure is called ‘Total Laparoscopic Right Hepaatectomy’ for Giant Haemangioma (benign tumour).
The 31-year-old woman from Hyderabad who underwent the surgery is from a poor background and works as a labourer. The surgery was performed on February 4, and the patient was discharged 10 days later. She visited the government tertiary hospital on Tuesday for follow-up consultation.
