Master F.H., 8 months old child travelled with his parents from Afghanistan and underwent distal penile Hypospadias treatment at our hospital recently (Dec 2014). Father had written to us and sent us very good and clear pictures as instructed via email and we could explain to them the type of anomaly and the surgery needed for the same. We coordinated the OPD appointments and then one fine day the baby was at our hospital in Navi Mumbai. We took up the baby for distal penile hypospadias repair surgery using Tubularised Incised plate urethroplasty (TIP repair) also called Snodgrass repair or Snodgrass urethroplasty. The surgery was finished in one hour and child was allowed feeds after 3 hours of surgery. Finally the catheter and the dressing were removed in 5 days and the parents took the child to Pune with them. I saw them on 15th Dec 2014 once again before their final flight back home to Afghanistan from Delhi. He was doing very well and the penis had healed very nice with good cosmetic and functional outcome.
Here is the email from the family:
When I was told by my baby’s doctor at the time of birth that he had hypospadias, we were very worried about it as it was the first time I had heard such case. Then I started searching about treatment and could not find any specialist locally in Afghanistan. Then we searched for a hypospadias specialist in India and could find the best pediatric urologist surgeon in Mumbai called Dr. A. K Singal in MITR hospital in Navi Mumbai although, I searched in Delhi and other states. Indeed what all I found it was just from Google net and I was really not sure what is going to be happen. Many questions arose into my mind that how the operation is going to be done? How many days my son would be admitted? And many other questions were there.
Eventually, I got appointment with the MITR hospital via email on the 1st December, 2014. Dr. A. K Singal visited my child and he talked about the operation and we decided to operate him after two days. The operation was done in a very professional way and successfully with no issue. It was amazing my baby did not have any pain and discharged from the hospital but I requested to remain for some more days for betterment of the child.
We (me and my wife) have very good memories from the Hypospadias Foundation and MITR Hospital especially from Dr A.K.Singal and now we know why he is a renowned Pediatric urologist and one of the best Hypospadias surgeons in India. The staff of Hypospadias Foundation based in MITR Hospital is good and the nurses were really outstanding.
My little angel is doing very well after surgery with no issue and we overcome those all tensions and worries which we had in the past.
Thank you Dr. Singal.
Best Regards,
M. H., Herat, Afghanistan