What it took for this hospital to pull off Mizoram’s first heart surgery

Lalramchhuani was in a state of distress. She had been told by their doctor that her husband, who had been diagnosed with diabetes since 2003, had suffered a heart attack and would need surgery. Ramchhuani and her husband Vanlalawia, who have been married for forty years, have five children and three grandchildren and reside in the Nursery locality in Aizawl. 

“It was only recently that we came to know that my husband has a lung ailment. He was diagnosed with diabetes in 2003 and in 2018 we came to know that he has a nerve problem. We were admitted to the hospital because his diabetes levels were quite high but when we were about to be released, his body became cold and he started vomiting,” she told EastMojo. 

The doctor, on seeing the condition of her husband, put him in the ICU where he reportedly kept vomiting through the night. Vanlalawia was then transferred to Trinity Hospital.