When 42-year-old Asha, a resident of Kundur village in Kunigal taluk, approached the area MLA seeking help for her hip surgery, little did she know that the MLA himself would perform the surgery.
The woman, the sole breadwinner of her family, had undergone a total hip replacement 10 years ago at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital under a government scheme. Over time, her hip replacement failed and she was in pain. But, as a second surgery is not free under the government health scheme, she was unable to afford the surgery.
When he heard her plight, Congress MLA H.D. Ranganath representing Kunigal, an orthopaedic surgeon himself performed a hip revision surgery at the State-run Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical College Hospital. The MLA-doctor performed the three-and-a-half hour surgery, along with Dean and Director Bowring Hospital Manoj Kumar H.V. and another orthopaedic surgeon from Victoria Hospital Deepak Shivanna.
