Miracle Baby’s Triumph!

The NICU department of the Dr. Jai Dev Memorial Rotary Ambala Hospital (#DJMRH) is happy to share the heartwarming story of a miracle baby. A 26+4-week premature baby, weighing just 625 grams, was admitted to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (#NICU) due to extreme prematurity and respiratory distress. Under the care of Dr. Vaneet Anand, a pediatrician, hematologist, and oncologist, along with his dedicated NICU team, this little fighter bravely faced numerous challenges. Little Fighter was und...

Healing Beyond Distance, Health Beyond Measure

A young pediatric patient, who came for a follow-up, was treated three years ago for Stage IV Wilms tumour—a type of kidney cancer. To receive the treatment, the patient and her family travelled all the way from Bihar, covering about 1300 kilometres to reach Dr. Jai Dev Memorial Rotary Ambala Hospital (DJMRH). By the grace of God, she has been off treatment for the last three years and is doing well. All thanks to the incredible efforts of Dr. Vaneet Anand, our pediatrician, hematologist, a...

Bringing hope to life, one tiny heartbeat at a time

The Newborn/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Dr. Jai Dev Memorial Rotary Ambala Hospital (DJMRH) is glad to announce the recovery of a recent NICU graduate. The term NICU Graduate is used for the baby patients who are discharged from the NICU in stable, safe, and sound condition. The baby, born prematurely at 29 weeks (approximately 7 months) and weighing just 1.1 kg, faced respiratory distress and required ventilation. After a challenging month in the NICU, the baby was discharged in a...

Successful Endoscopic Removal of Ingested Toothbrush by gastroenterology team

A 50-year-old male patient who accidentally ingested an entire toothbrush and had severe abdominal pain was referred to the Dr. Jai Dev Memorial Rotary Ambala Hospital (DJMRH) by the Civil Hospital, Ambala Cantt. The patient came into the emergency department, and Dr. Hardeep Singh, a gastroenterologist and hepatologist, suggested a CT scan to find out the exact position of the toothbrush in the stomach. After looking at the CT scan report, the patient was moved into the gastroenterology proc...

ERCP prevented the patient from undergoing Open Surgery

Patient Rajani Devi was referred from the General Surgery Department of Dr. Jai Dev Memorial Rotary Ambala Hospital for severe abdominal pain due to a large stone in the cannabidiol (CBD). For further diagnosis, Dr. Hardeep Singh, a gastroenterologist and hepatologist, decided to perform magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP), which showed a large CBD stone of around 18 mm. Not only was the stone an issue, but the other problem was an extremely narrow distal. The patient was expla...

Critical Patient Recovery from Brain Damage with acute infarcts (stroke)

The patient came with right-sided weakness and inability to speak since 1 day. MRI of the brain showed brain damage with acute infarcts (stroke) in the left side of the brain. Angiography of the brain was done which showed severely narrowed blood vessels through which blood was not going properly inside the brain. Intraarterial medicines were infused in the brain arteries in our advanced cath lab with which blood vessels regained their normal diameter and flow of blood. Her symptoms improved ...

Critical Patient Recovery Suffering from Myasthenia Gravis

Mr. Rakesh Joshi who is presently 41 years old was suffering from weakness of hands and fatigability for 3 years. He was still undiagnosed after taking rounds of many different hospitals with this long history of illness till he reached Rotary Ambala Cancer and General Hospital, Ambala Cantt in the year 2020. With state-of-the-art neurological facilities available in the hospital our team was able to diagnose him having Myasthenia Gravis (It is a disease that causes weakness due to the commun...