Shija hits milestone with 100 kidney transplants
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, March 20 2024: Shija Hospitals and Research Institute (SHRI) has completed 100 kidney transplants.

SHRI celebrated the milestone with an event at its auditorium today where people living with transplanted kidneys, representatives of Mohan Foundation and All Manipur Kidney Transplant Association were present.

Shija Kidney Care Card was also launched at the function.

Speaking at the event, SHRI chairman cum managing director Dr Kh Palin said that 109 kidney transplants have been completed till date.

He said that people with chronic kidney disease and a history of renal transplants can register for the Shija Kidney Care Card.

Shija hits milestone with 100 kidney transplants

Those with these cards would be given 20 per cent concession on laboratory investigations, 10 per cent discount on radiology investigations and procedures and up to 10 per cent discount on medicines.

Even though dialysis is covered by CMHT and PMJAY, Erythropoietin is not covered by any of the two.

Erythropoietin is an injection generally given to patients soon after undergoing kidney transplants.

SHRI would provide this injection to kidney transplant patients free of cost with immediate effect, Dr Palin said.

Medicines taken by people after undergoing kidney transplants must be taken for the whole life.

SHRI would take up necessary measures to provide these medicines too free of cost, he said.

Around two lakh chronic renal diseases are reported across India in a year but not all of them require kidney transplants.

Many of them can survive with dialysis, he continued.

Out of the two lakh cases, only around 12,000 undergo kidney transplants.

A large number of patients who require kidney transplants cannot undergo the same medical procedure on account of various reasons, unavailability of organ and limited number of donors being the main ones.

When a person dies suddenly, eight organs are not dead.

If these organs are donated, another person will survive, otherwise the living organs will either be cremated or buried along with the dead body, Dr Palin said.

Now organ swapping has been permitted.

This would certainly raise the number of kidney transplants, he said.

JNIMS has also started performing kidney transplants and RIMS would also follow suit soon, he said.

On the other hand, SHRI has been working hard to provide world-class health- care to the people of Mani-pur and beyond.

The Governments of Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram have empanelled SHRI for treatment of their citizens at the hospital.

SHRI has already performed more than 100 cornea transplants and it is working to start liver transplants, Dr Palin added.