Summary:
more-inA team of doctors, including paediatric surgeons, at G.
Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial (GKNM) Hospital in Coimbatore have performed cholecystectomy, (surgical removal of gall bladder), on a 214-day-old male baby, using a minimal invasive procedure. After a round of examinations, the presence of gall stones was identified as the underlying cause of pain. Sharvesh, child of an agriculturist from Dindigul, was operated upon on September 6 to remove the gall bladder that contained three stones and sludge. The hospital has reached out to the Guinness Book of World Records to claim the credit for having performed the delicate gall bladder removal on the youngest person in the world. The baby was brought to the hospital three days before the surgery with complaints of severe abdominal pain and fever..