Dr. Anil Kumar is with advanced keyhole surgery for bone fracture treatment

Here is a physician with a look of mercy in his eyes and a feathery touch of care in his hands. Dr. Anil Kumar was an orthopedic surgeon of Ottapalam Semalk hospital who is from Kollam district by birth and from Palakkad by profession.

The advanced keyhole surgical method is developed through his tireless efforts for more than three decades which gains international fame in the field of health science. Dr. Anil Kumar was impressed by the Dr. P.K. Menon’s way of working; he opened his service path in 1989 by starting a new department of orthopedics in Semalk hospital which had only limited facility. At that time, a common man used to rely Thrissur and Kozhikode medical colleges for the treatment of bone diseases. Peoples are forced to do the plastering instead of surgery for the fractures because of the financial constraint. So the doctor who knows the side effects of such treatments, then he developed cheap and simple scientific procedure called CRPP (Closed Reduction Percutaneous Pinning). To reduce the cost of treatment for patients, he avoid the expensive medical device called C-arm which cost around Rs. 25 Lakhs, and the operation being done by learned the position of broken bones by touching them with fingers. In international conferences he present this operation method and he realize this kind of operation can be done very simply with C-arm, and then he bought it and started using it since 2017.