Kedarnath, June 2 -- A woman who fractured her arm during the Kedarnath Yatra received immediate relief when doctors at a high-altitude pilgrimage site in Kedarnath successfully carried out an advanced regional anaesthesia procedure at a height of almost 11,700 feet.

The pilgrim sustained a fracture of the humerus after falling from a horse. She was in severe pain and was unable to tolerate even minimal movement needed for treatment and plaster application.

Dr Vinay, an anaesthesiologist from GIMS, Greater Noida, and a volunteer doctor with the Swami Vivekanand Health Mission Society (SVHM), performed a Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block, a specialised nerve block used to manage upper-limb pain.

The procedure provided complete pain ...