Royal Hospital performs innovative surgery

Muscat: In a first of its kind procedure, the Royal Hospital Successfully removed damaged cells in the Pancreas recently.

The Ministry of Health in a statement said: “For the first of its kind in the Sultanate, the Royal Hospital succeeded recently in removing the damaged cells in the Pancreas by the laparoscopic ultrasound for a patient suffering from a severe necrotic pancreatitis.”

The surgical intervention was performed by a medical team from the Royal Hospital headed by Dr. Hisham Abdullah Al-Dahab, Senior Consultant in Gastroenterology in cooperation with the anesthesiologists and nurses.

Al Dahab said, "This intervention is the latest in modern medicine in the field of severe necrotic pancreatitis.”

“This surgical intervention is characterized by the lack of side effects, the patient can return to his/ her daily life routine after three-day. It also reduces the number of days a patient has to stay in the hospital,” the statement added.