Doctors remove large tumor from woman’s abdomen

Patients was suffering from severe abdominal pain

MULTAN:

A 22-centimetres large tumor was removed from the abdomen of a woman in Nishtar Hospital’s Gynecology Unit 3 on Friday. Ghani's 46-year-old wife Nasira, a resident of Multan, had been suffering from severe lower abdominal pain for the past several days.

After visiting various private hospitals, the patient was brought to Nishtar Hospital where doctors from different departments examined her and referred her to Gynecology Unit Ward 18. Dr Saima Qadir, Dr Rahat Amir, Dr Fatima Hashmi, Dr Sobia and Dr Sadiq Khan, led by Dr Shahid Rao, successfully removed a 22 cm large tumor from the patient's abdomen after a long complicated surgery, as per reports.

The doctors said the patient's condition was now out of danger. In this regard, the Department of Gynecology Senior Physician Dr Asif Rao said that this surgery in private hospitals costs around Rs0.1 to 0.2 million. “It was difficult to diagnose the disease,” he said. However, he continued that Nishtar Hospital's Gynecology Unit 3 is no less than a blessing for women patients coming from Multan, South Punjab, Balochistan, Interior Sindh and some districts of KP.

Earlier, on June 06, a 20 kilogrammes of tumor was removed from a citizen’s abdomen by a senior surgeon of Nishtar Hospital after a successful surgery. Haji Bashir Ahmad, a resident of Tehsil Rohilanwali of Muzaffargarh, was brought to a private hospital in Multan due to his rapidly gaining weight, abdominal pain, and deteriorating health.

The CT scan revealed a tumor in the patient's abdomen, based on which the hospital's consultant surgeon and assistant professor of surgery Dr Khadim Hussain decided to operate the patient.

The 60-year-old patient Haji Bashir’s stomach was connected to the ribs due to a tumor weighing 20 kg and the brain had problems with blood supply. After a complicated 3.5- hour operation, the tumor was removed from the patient's abdomen.

The patient has been recovering since then. “Such a big tumor removal surgery had not been performed in the hospitals of South Punjab before,” said Dr Hussain after the successful operation.

He added that he had previously removed 15kg of tumors from the stomachs of two women. Bashir stated that he has already visited various hospitals in Lahore for treatment but no doctor took his illness seriously.