Sassoon hospital celebrates mahtma Gandhi’s 94th appendix surgery

NP NEWS NETWORK 
Pune

We all of us know The The Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College and Sassoon general hospital in Pune. But do you know that this government hospital has a legacy of operation of the Indian independence movement leader Mahatma Gandhi against British rule? Maybe not but this is true.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi whose the whole country is celebrating 15pth birthday anniversary today, was operated in Sassoon general hospital’s old building on 12 January 1924. The hospital is celebrating today it’s 94th year of operation of the great soul.

As per the history, Gandhi was sentenced to six years imprisonment in sedation case in 1922 by Ahmadabad court. He was put in Yerawada jail that time. As he crossed his two years of imprisonment, was diagnosed with an appendix in Yerawada jail. To remove appendix he was taken to Sassoon hospital for the surgery. Then a British surgeon colonel Maddock operated him for an inflamed appendix on January 12, 1924.

As per the record available with Sassoon, the surgery began on the night and The surgeon who operated on Gandhiji was a British Colonel Maddock. While the surgery was in progress that the electric bulb went off. The appendectomy had then to be finished by the light of a hurricane lamp.

After that, a Gandhi Memorial was created in the old, stone building of the hospital, around this incident and in the room where the surgery was conducted. Located in the Opthalmology Department of the hospital, a painting commemorating that incident was installed in the room. But the memorial is not accessible to the common people and opened only on the anniversary day.

Speaking about this, Dr. Ajay Chandanwale, Dean of the Sassoon general hospital said, ” It is the great legacy to the Hospital. In the memorial, we have preserved the operation table of Mahatma Gandhi along with surgery items, operation notes, and names of anesthetist in it.”