Milestone achievement as Pacific Specialist Healthcare conducts brain tumour surgery within 2 hours

Milestone achievement as Pacific Specialist Healthcare conducts brain tumour surgery within 2 hours

By Mansi Chand
Sunday 02/02/2025

Pacific Specialist Healthcare has achieved a milestone as they carried out a complex brain tumour surgery in Suva within two hours.

Pacific Specialist Healthcare CEO Parvish Kumar says two weeks ago their neurosurgical group led by Dr Alan Biribo, removed a huge tumour that could normally take 6 to 8 hours without any complications.

Kumar says that last year, they also launched Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, which treats wounds that don't heal on time and result in amputations.

The CEO says they built Fiji's largest state-of-the-art specialty 130-bed hospital with new and innovative medical technologies in both Suva and Nadi facilities.

He says his aim and vision was to bring world-class medical services to the country and also for the entire Pacific community.

Kumar says he saw that people were being deprived of such services which were available elsewhere in the world and those equipment were not so expensive when compared to saving precious lives.

He says they started small in 2016, but the dream was big and achieving everything overnight wasn't possible, so the team took one step at a time.

The CEO says in November last year, they commissioned the multi-million dollar state-of-the-art cardiology unit and carried out the first triple graft heart bypass surgery in Nadi.

Kumar adds last month they carried out a marathon of open heart surgeries for three consecutive days and the first one was a quadruple graft heart bypass surgery which is a first for Fiji and that too was done with minimum blood loss to the patient and without a drop of blood transfusion because of the patient's religious beliefs as a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses congregation.

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