As per the doctors, any major surgery on such a tiny baby with such poor health condition was very much difficult and challenging.
This is the tale of extreme courage and fight of a low birth weight baby, weighing only 520 grams, 12 days old who underwent a critical abdominal surgery at a Children’s Hospital in the state. Jhanvi, as claimed by the hospital, she is the smallest baby ever operated upon and to have survived not just in India but in the entire South Asia.
Jhanvi was born to Umesh and Madanlal, a couple from Nijampur Magrouni in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh.
“She was born premature, just at 26 weeks of pregnancy, on February 13, 2018,” Dr. Sunil Janged, Director, Jivanta Children Hospital, in Udaipur said. “There was progressive distention of her abdomen along with greenish aspirates and we were not able to start feeds. On the 12th day of her birth her condition started to deteriorate and she developed tense abdominal distention, skin of abdomen was turning blue, and her heart beat and blood pressure started dropping. Her body system was shutting down and operation was the only resort left,” added Dr Janged.
As per the doctors, any major surgery on such a tiny baby with such poor health condition was very much difficult and challenging. But a team of experts carried out the emergency abdominal surgery which lasted for 1.5 hours.
“She was smaller than my hand when we operated on her,” Pediatric surgeon Dr Praveen Jhanwar said. “Her organs were so delicate and fragile that as soon as we started operating, even with our small instruments, everything started to bleed and fall apart. Intestinal wall was not able to take the sutures. Dead tissue was removed, abdomen was thoroughly washed and wall closed with a lot of difficulty,” he added.
She was in the NICU for almost 117 days and now her weight is close to 2.110 kg.
“She is the smallest baby to survive major abdominal surgery in India and the whole of South Asia. In the whole world only 4-5 babies weighing less than 500 gms and who underwent major abdominal surgery have survived till date,” Dr Pradeep Suryawanshi, Senior Professor & Neonatology, Pune said.
Difficult task
As per the doctors, any major surgery on such a tiny baby with such poor health condition was very much difficult and challenging. But a team of experts carried out the emergency abdominal surgery which lasted for 1.5 hours.
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