Medanta Hospital to offer concessions to PMJAY card holders
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 23 2023:
People who are in possession of PMJAY cards can now go for kidney transplantation, if they require such medical procedure, without incurring huge expenditures at Medanta Hospital, Gurugram, Delhi.
Speaking to media persons at Hotel Yaiphaba, Thangal Bazar yesterday, Medanta Hospital Renal Transplantation, Minimally Invasive Urology and Robotic Surgery Director Dr Prasun Ghosh said that during the early years of kidney transplantation, open surgery was done on both the kidney donor and the recipient.
With the introduction of laparoscopic surgery in the mid 1990s, risks associated with the process of kidney transplantation were reduced substantially and the patients who underwent kidney transplantation recovered within a much shorter period, Dr Prasun Ghosh said.
Still there are some limitations of laparoscopic surgery in kidney transplantation.
With the advancement in medical technology, now robotic platform or robotic surgery is used very conveniently and successfully in kidney transplantation.
This technology enables doctors to perform even every tricky or difficult kidney transplantation, Dr Ghosh said.
Kidney transplantation is a team work.
It requires/involves experienced doctors from different departments, he said.
Experienced doctors at Medanta Hospital can now successfully perform robotic kidney transplantation, he informed.
Dr Prasun Ghosh said that there are around 12.5 lakh people in India who are suffering from chronic kidney diseases.
Out of them, 5000 to 6000, undergo kidney transplantation in a year, he continued.
Financial difficulties and search for donors are the main challenges of kidney transplantation but the financial difficulties can be mitigated considerably if one is in possession of PMJAY card.
Medanta Hospital, Senior Consultant, Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Medicine Dr Amit Kumar Mahapatra said that above 10 per cent of the total population of India are suffering from chronic kidney diseases.
According to the report of a study carried out in 2014, the percentage goes above 15 per cent in the North East and this can be attributed to lack of awareness and failure to undergo kidney transplantation in time, Dr Amit Kumar said.