75 screened in ortho camp

Chandigarh, December 7, 2019: As many as 75 patients were screened in a free ortho camp at sector 20 here on Saturday. The camp was organized by Shalby Multi-Specialty Hospital Mohali where it’s MD and country renowned joint replacement surgeon, Dr.Vikram I Shah’s team led by Dr.Naveen Mittal an ortho and joint replacement surgeon gave consultations on knee, hip pain and other orthopedic problems. During the camp a physiotherapy service , BMD and uric acid test were also offered to the patients. Meanwhile Dr. Shah with his team of surgeons and paramedics has done the highest number of joint replacement surgeries in the world. According to Dr. Shah , country is seeing an arthritis epidemic. The incidence of knee arthritis in the Indian population is believed to be as much as 15 times higher than what is found in Western nations. USA, with a population of 30 crores, sees 7 lakh total knee replacement surgeries every year, but for India, this figure is only 150,000, he remarked. While this is a huge jump from a mere 350 knee surgeries that were performed in India in 1994, the unmet demand in the country would be a staggering one crore knee replacements each year, considering the huge size of the population and the propensity of Indians for knee arthritis, he pointed out. Compared to this, India will be seeing just about one million knee replacements every year by 2022. Knee Replacements today involve much lower infection rates and shorter hospital stays, asserted Dr. Shah Knee arthritis is expected to emerge as the fourth most common cause of physical disability in India in the next one decade, he maintained.