100 renal transplants successfully conducted
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, September 05 2014 : Max Hospital announced its 100 successful renal transplants conducted at the Renal Transplant Centre, Max Super Speciality Hospital (MSSH), Mohali in a press conference held at a hotel in Sector 43, Mohali today.

The press conference was attended by Dr Vinay Sakhuja, Director and Head, Nephrology and Transplant Medicine; Dr Munish Chauhan, Sr consultant, Nephrology; Dr Sananda bag, Sr consultant, Renal Transplant Surgeon and Urologist and Dr Jagdish Sethi, Consultant, Renal Transplant at MSSH, Mohali.

The doctors agreed on the point that increasing the supply of organs, by motivating more donors to come forward for donation, would help curb organ trade in India.

Expressing the the desire encourage cadaver (deceased) donor programme, the doctors stated that a successful cadaver donation programme would not only cover organ shortage but would also help in stopping illegal organ trade in the country.

Dr Munish Chauhan observed that while private centres perform about 30-35 transplants every month, government institutes roughly performs 15-20 per month.

Patients, therefore, swarm in to private centres owing to good results, better patient care , better facilities, lesser waiting time for transplants and mainly because medically challenging cases like ABO incompatible kidney transplants, transplants in HIV positive patients, have been successfully conducted at centres like Max Hospital Mohali.

Supporting Dr Munish, Dr Bag said that while private centre require around 2-week for transplantation, for patients from faraway places, subjected to completion of legal formalities, the same at government centres would have to stay on dialysis over around 6 months before they get transplanted.

This was the reason, he continued, that over a period of time, number of kidney transplant requests have been increased in private centres.

95 per cent of transplant surgeries done at Max Hospital used Laparoscopic surgery, where the recovery of donor was faster as compared to open surgeries.

Patients coming from different states like HP, Manipur, Haryana, J&K, Uttaranchal, Western UP, Bihar, Orrisa where there are either no transplant centres or very few centres, have to take permission from their respective state authorities before a transplant.

The file, hereafter, would be submitted to the authorization committees at the respective States for clearance.

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