NRI takes week off to operate on 70 patients

An NRI surgeon cast aside health service bureaucracy to tackle waiting lists at his hospital by conducting 70 operations during his leave. S...

An NRI surgeon cast aside health service bureaucracy to tackle waiting lists at his hospital by conducting 70 operations during his leave.

Sixty-year-old Satya Agarwala, an orthopaedic surgeon, has been praised by health chiefs after he took leave to free himself from other surgical duties and work through a backlog of operations at the Worthing and Southlands hospital, in Sussex.

He carried out 70 procedures to treat patients suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome. The week-long campaign by the surgeon has reduced the hospital’s waiting list by a month and left only nine carpal tunnel patients still awaiting operations.

Playing down his achievement, Agarwala said yesterday that hospital managers and administrative staff deserved credit for helping the initiative to work so smoothly.

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