A 12-year-old boy from Uzbekistan, Khusanbek Ozotilla, met with an accident in his home country at the age of three, wherein he fell from his terrace and suffered critical head injuries for which, he was admitted at a city hospital in Uzbekistan and underwent a lifesaving procedure called tracheostomy (surgical Procedure that involves creating an opening in the neck in order to place a tube into a person’s windpipe). Thereafter, the child had a permanent hole in his neck due to which he lost his ability to speak and was not able to communicate normally.
Childhood is all about talking, learning and exploring the world. However, Khusanbek was deprived of the pleasures of life as he was unable to speak. Post 10 years of not being able to communicate, Khusanbek’s mother decided to get him treated at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. The team of Dr Suresh Singh Naruka, Consultant, Department of ENT, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, along with Dr(Prof) Ameet Kishore, Senior Consultant Surgeon, ENT, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals and Dr Nishant Rana Registrar, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals recently carried out the surgery wherein the trachea of the child was reconstructed.
The child was then kept in pediatric intensive care unit for one day under the supervision of Dr Nameet Jerath, Senior Pediatrician, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals. Next morning the child was removed off the ventilator and was found that the tube which he carried for 10 long years was removed.
