Orthopaedic and general surgeons at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and the New Amsterdam Regional Hospital have embarked on a campaign to reduce the backlog of patients requiring hernia surgeries.
According to a Department of Public Information (DPI) press release, a total of 64 hernia repairs were completed over one weekend in December with 50 patients benefitting.
Patients of all age ranges underwent inguinal hernia surgery, an operation to repair a weakness in the abdominal wall that allows abdominal contents to slip into a narrow tube called the inguinal canal in the groin region, the DPI release added.
