Srinagar, Oct 23: Doctors at Medicare Speciality Hospital, Srinagar, have successfully performed a complex laparoscopic surgery on a 68-year-old man from Ganderbal suffering from a rare congenital condition called Gastric Duplication Cystic Disease, commonly referred to as a “double stomach.”

A statement said that the procedure, the first of its kind in the Kashmir valley, was conducted by Dr Rafiq Simnani, Senior Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeon, who led a team through a meticulous four-hour operation at Medicare Hospital. The condition, present since birth, involves the development of a duplicate diseased stomach connected to the normal one — a phenomenon documented in fewer than 100 cases worldwide and fewer than 10 in India.

According to hospital officials, the patient had been exper

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