According to a news release, this was the seventh time the GMC’s department of orthopaedics and spine surgery has hosted a refresher course on the Ponseti technique of clubfoot therapy.
The Ponseti method of clubfoot care and the most recent approaches for treating clubfoot across the globe were the subjects of lectures given by renowned orthopaedic surgeons Dr. Mathew Varghese and Dr. Vikas Gupta.
To educate the assembled physicians on how to best treat clubfoot, the two tenotomized and cast their patients right there and then.
Rubia Hamid, the State Programme Coordinator (CIIT) in J&K, stated, “Our specialists Dr. Varghese and Dr. Gupta talked about the spectrum of clubfoot deformity and other associated difficulties.
With the aim of eliminating clubfoot-related handicap, CIIT has implemented a plan in J&K. It now operates 6 clinics around the state.
Clinics are open and working successfully in Anantnag, Bemina, Rainawari, Srinagar, Jammu, and Gandhi Nagar at the Government Medical College and the Government Medical College, respectively, according to Hamid.
In addition to offering free braces to children who are malformed, we are treating over 1800 kids throughout the state at no cost to them.
Over 150 babies a day are born in India with clubfoot, says CIIT.
The program’s goal is to raise awareness of clubfoot as a treatable condition and the devastating consequences of ignoring it.
“Our active collaboration with the organisation in terms of performing casts and tenotomy on the children born with deformity is moving in the right direction to eradicate the clubfoot,” said Dr. Younis Kamal, head of the department of orthopaedics and spine surgery. “CIIT’s programme has benefited a lot of parents.”
Parents whose newborns are diagnosed with clubfoot may get free care and braces at participating hospitals thanks to an initiative administered by CIIT.
Clubfoot is a congenital malformation characterised by a significant inward and downward twist of the foot.
“While clubfoot cannot be prevented, it can be corrected, and the treatment at our clinics is free of cost,” stated the District Programme Coordinator, Anantnag. Children in Anantnag who are born with clubfeet may get free plaster from the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK).
Clubfoot, according to doctors, may be seen in newborns. In neonates, it is painless despite its apparent severity. Clubfoot is not immediately painful, but it does become a significant impairment with time.
If left untreated, walking will become painful or impossible; the longer the problem is left untreated, the more costly and complex the therapy will be.
Dr.Syed Tariq Qureshi, principal of GMC Anantnag, thanked the experts from CIIT for organising the CME and expressed his hope that the institution would continue to host such events in the future.
