JNIMS treats second time kidney failure patient
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, October 31 2022:
Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) reached a new milestone in renal transplant with the successful kidney transplantation on a 32-year old woman who had kidney failure for the second time.
Speaking to media persons in this regard at his office, JNIMS director Prof L Deven informed that the woman from Churachandpur district was admitted to the hospital with kidney failure for the second time and subsequently carried out kidney transplantation successfully after conducting required test and observation free of cost under the CMHT scheme on October 22.She was discharged from the hospital as her health condition improved.
Informing that JNIMS hospital has conducted 14 kidney transplants so far under PMJAY/CMHT health schemes, he said that the previous transplants were all on first time cases.
However, in case of Churachandpur patient, she had her right kidney transplanted in Delhi in 2014 only to suffer failure of the left kidney in 2018 and had been undergoing dialysis for two years.
The transplanted left kidney was donated by her brother, he added.
Prof Deven further said that survival rate of kidney transplanted patient is more than 50 per cent and he/she lives for more than 19 years after the surgery.
However, there are also cases of kidney failure after some years of transplant.
The public notion of inability to conduct treatment of kidney failure after carrying out kidney transplant has been debunked with the recent case of kidney transplant; he maintained, while appealing to the people to be aware of the possibility treatment of kidney failure even after transplant.
The director continued that the recent case of kidney transplantation will give new hope to patients living with chronic kidney diseases and are waiting for kidney transplant.
Furthermore, the director recalled that Heingang police found an unconscious non-Manipuri man, who is around 50 years of age at a place under the jurisdiction of Heingang PS and admitted him to JNIMS on September 15.As family members of the said individual failed to turn up at the hospital, doctors and staffers of the hospital treated him at ICU.
After careful and sincere treatment, the individual became conscious and his health improved, Prof Deven continued, while adding that the individual will be handed over to Heingang police station as family members or relatives failed to show up.