Jeo Jyoti Foundation successfully completes breast reduction camp |08 February 2020

Dr Ghosh (left) and Mr Khanna

Jeo Jyoti Foundation of India, a charitable organisation, recently organised and completed its first breast reduction camp for the year in which eight Seychellois women benefitted from the free surgeries.

Held from January 19 to 24, the camp was conducted by Dr Abhishek Ghosh, a cosmetic and micro-vascular surgeon based in Pune, India.

With this recent camp, the Jeo Jyoti Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Health has so far organised four breast reduction camps, of which three were done by Dr Ghosh.

Since the Jeo Jyoti Foundation introduced these regular week-long breast reduction camps, a total of 30 women have undergone such a surgery to significantly reduce the size of their breasts so as to alleviate their back or shoulder pains.

Dr Ghosh, a honorary member of the Jeo Jyoti Foundation, provided his services free of charge and was assisted by local nurses, whom he strongly felt are quite adept to help with these types of surgeries.

While only eight women went under surgery during this camp, Dr Ghosh said that he is satisfied with how the surgeries went and how his patients are recuperating.

However two other patients were unable to undergo the breast reduction surgery because they were not medically fit to do so.

“For the patients who were not fit, one had low haemoglobin count so we have started her on some medicines and she will be considered for the next camp. The other patient had some medical issues, hypertension and all, and she was on some blood thinning medicine which would have hampered the surgery.”

Dr Ghosh started off the camp on Sunday, January 19 with an outpatient clinic where he met and consulted with the patients to check their medical status and the surgeries started the following day, on Monday.

The surgical procedures last for approximately 4 to 5 hours after which the patient must remain at the hospital for two to three days.

After the patient is discharged, she is expected to rest and take care that she does not get injured around the chest area.

Patients are advised to avoid strenuous activities for two to three weeks and are further advised to wear supportive bras that will cause minimum tension to the wound line.

Some can go back to work after a week if they have desk jobs but those with demanding jobs are encouraged to stay home for the required two to three weeks.

According to the founder of Jeo Jyoti, Surya Khanna, breast reduction surgery is usually expensive worldwide and hence the foundation is proud to be able to offer this service at no cost to the Seychellois patients.

“All the patients we operated on had very heavy breasts and because of this they suffered from back and shoulder pain so severe that it interfered with their daily activities,” Dr Ghosh observed.

“They are very relieved when they have the load removed from their chests, literally. There a lot of women in Seychelles who are suffering from this and we try to cater to as many as possible.”

Mr Khanna noted that the foundation regularly offers the Ministry of Health with the service of various short-tem medical consultants who specialise in priority areas identified by the ministry.

“All of our consultants are private doctors practicing in India, the UK and some other countries, so anytime they are out of their country they can do so only for a short period of time because it will be bad for their practice. They cannot afford to be out long and normally they come here for a week, or maximum ten days to conduct these surgeries,” Mr Khanna explained.

Aside from breast reduction surgeries, the foundation has sponsored bariatric, spinal and knee replacement surgeries.

Next, the foundation is aiming to bring Dr Ghosh back to Seychelles to conduct reconstructive surgeries for cancer patients who have had mastectomies.

Elsie Pointe