TIMES CITY THE TIMES OF INDIA, MUMBAI | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2016 HOW TO DOWNLOAD Download ALIVE Open the app and Watch the alivear.com OneScan App from focus on the image image come Available on AND USE ALIVE APP Android and iOS your app store or go to 2 containing Alive logo ALIVE. View 1 3 devices PAGES 13 & 15 alivear.com/app and scan it. and share. Fire at Deonar dump again, Dearth of lung surgeons hits TB patients harder locals worried Operation At A Late Stage Results In Loss Of Diseased Lung, BIGGEST HEALTH CONCERN
[email protected] Making Remaining Pulmonary Organ Vulnerable To Infection TB patients Mumbai: A fire broke out at Deonar in India dumping ground on Friday afterno-
[email protected] gery. GTB Hospital has three such sur- gence. He then underwent surgery,” said on. It took around two hours for the fi- geons, including Dr Shirodkar. “Most Dr Dalal. Unfortunately, doctors had to 2.8mn re brigade to extinguish the blaze. Mumbai: The city, often dubbed as the private sector hospitals don’t offer lung remove a lung as it was extensively dam- Locals said it was the second fire tuberculosis (TB) capital of the world, surgery as they don’t have isolation aged. “The need for surgery is acute at the dump in about a week. On the has too few surgeons to operate on dis- rooms (for TB patients),” he said. More- when one considers that these patients night of October 21, a fire had broken eased lungs, worsening the suffering of over, most surgeons trained in cardioth- have dead cells that harbour infection.