Corentyne sisters now comfortable at home after life-saving heart surgery at Balwant Singh’s Hospital
Written by Gabreila Patram, Monday, 02 September 2013 00:10, Source
Number 65 Village sisters Tiana and Gayona Bissoondyal, each born with a hole in the heart and a slim chance of going overseas for life-saving surgery, are the first successes of paediatric heart surgeries now being provided at the Dr. Balwant Singh Hospital.
The team of doctors along with five-year-old Tiana Bissoondyal and her mother Moushimi Bissoondyal after the heart surgery.
Three-year-old Gayona Bissoondyal and five-year-old Tiana Bissoondyal are resting comfortably in their home at Number 65 Village on the Corentyne, after they were discharged on Saturday from the Balwant Singh’s Hospital following the first-ever beating heart surgery in Guyana.
An hospital official speaking with the Guyana Chronicle yesterday said that “the children are doing great; their recovery process is excellent and moving along nicely.”
The official said further that before they were released from the hospital, the children were thoroughly examined and their doctors found no problems or complications as a result of the coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
Three-year-old Gayona Bissoondyal resting after her heart surgery.
This surgery has the advantage of avoiding the complications and side effects of a heart-lung machine and encourages faster recovery. Off pump CABG involves operating on the heart while it’s beating and that is an extremely difficult task, but surgeons with good skills and experience along with the support of special instruments can perform it very comfortably and efficiently.
The two children who were born with holes in their hearts had the life- saving surgery done at Balwant Singh’s Hospital by cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Ratan Kumar Das from India.
Meanwhile, this publication tried to make contact with the girls’ mother Moushimi Bissoondyal, but efforts proved futile.