Doctors of Udayan Hospital perform a laparoscopic oncology surgery at a workshop in Patna on Wednesday. The patient on whom surgery was conducted was suffering from uterine cancer. The hospital administration claimed that this surgery is rarely performed in Bihar and Jharkhand because of lack of experts. Udayan Hospital started laparoscopic oncology surgery on Wednesday. “At present, people have to shell out around Rs 1.5 lakh to get this surgery done in hospitals outside the state. But at our centre, this can be done for Rs 75,000,” said Neeraj Kumar, general manager, Udayan Hospital. Text by Shuchismita Chakraborty, picture by Ranjeet Kumar Dey