Anil Kumar Lahoti, General Manager, Central Railways on behalf of Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial Railway Hospital, Byculla, received the ‘Computer Navigation System for Joint Replacement and Spine Surgeries’ from Amitabh Banerjee, Chairman and Managing Director Indian Railway Finance Company as a part of CSR initiative at the Handing Over Ceremony held at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Mumbai Ion Monday, March 14.
Lahoti said that the initiatives taken by Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited under CSR activities are appreciated. Further, he said that the Railway employees who require joint replacement surgeries will be benefited from this instrument.
The Department of Orthopaedics and Spine surgery at Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial Railway Hospital, Byculla is fully functional handling the entire range of minor, major, supra major orthopaedic surgical operations. It is also a Centre of Excellence in the field of Joint Replacement and Revision Surgeries and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. The department has done more than 2000 joint replacement surgeries including revision surgeries and 1200 spine surgeries. The department is catering to the needs of railway employees and public cases that are referred from all over India.
Central Railway under the leadership of Lahoti, has approached organizations with robust CSR programs like Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC) to sponsor donations of the “Computer-Assisted Navigation System” of the desired specifications to the needy patients, awaiting surgery in the Orthopaedic Department.
The Computer-Assisted Navigation system consists of three elements: computer platform, tracking system and rigid body marker. The use of computer-assisted navigation is especially helpful in cases of replacement surgery where a patient has previous fractures, bone loss, gross limb deformities – congenital or acquired and in cases of revision joint replacement surgeries. This unique facility is not available at any other Government Hospitals.
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