Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:23:26 +0000 …very young doctors performing major operations without any thought of overtime payment or any other benefit… By Dr. KACHINGA SICHIZYA THE time reads 23:13 hours. I have just received a phone call from a hard working young Anaesthetist Dr Kaunda Lwimba informing me that the ENT surgeons are now concluding the major surgery which began 12 hours ago at midday. The team of Specialist Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) surgeons, Dr Rachel Kasamba Hapunda Chibanga and Dr Harrison Phiri together with Dr Yolanta Lilanda-Kasonso, nurses Hope Mwelwa and Katowa Bridget and Joseph Mutale, Maimbolwa Makuyu and Amon Silomba to mention but a few, have been performing a Total Laryngectomy. It is an operation which involves removal of part of the Oesophagus and the Trachea and all affected lymph nodes on an 18-year-old girl, a school leaver who had the misfortune of suffering from Squamous cell carcinoma of the […]
