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Up to date: Aug 24, 2021 20:34 IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], August 24 (ANI/NewsVoir): Jehangir Hospital, a number one healthcare institution based mostly out of Pune, said that it carried out its 500th kidney transplant on July 13, 2021 making it probably the most profitable healthcare institutions within the metropolis.
Jehangir Hospital recorded its first transplant method again in January, 1998. The donor obtained the kidney from his brother. 22 years later, he’s nonetheless wholesome and not too long ago retired from his service. At the moment, Jehangir Hospital clocked single digit transplants. Through the years, the variety of transplants surged as a consequence of technological development, medication, and consciousness.
“The multidisciplinary staff of physicians, surgeons, transplant coordinators, dieticians, pharmacists, social staff, and nurses work in shut collaboration to make this attainable. Jehangir Hospital was related to the primary Swap transplant within the metropolis in 2008. Additionally it is credited with the primary ABO swap incompatible transplant which was held in 2018. Good outcomes have been the important thing to success of the whole programme. We’ve had greater than 90% survival of the kidney and the affected person in the previous few years,” mentioned Dr. Sriniwas Ambike, Senior Nephrologist accountable for this programme.
“500 renal transplants in a single hospital is an excellent achievement. There are a selection of things accountable for this. A reputed hospital with clear moral observe, devoted nephrologists, anaesthetists, and naturally, expert surgical staff. It took 10 years to do the primary 100 transplants, 1999-2009; after which it took 12 years so as to add 400 extra. We’re very proud to be members of the Jehangir Transplant Group,” mentioned Dr. Deepak Kirperkar, Senior Urologist and Transplant Surgeon, Jehangir Hospital.
“Kidney transplants have come a good distance in our nation, and Pune shouldn’t be behind. We’re proud to finish 500 transplants in a famend institute like Jehangir Hospital which has been a tertiary care referral centre for many years. With wonderful and world comparable outcomes, I’m certain our staff will carry on crossing milestones,” mentioned Dr. Dhanesh Kamerkar, Sr Vascular Surgeon at Jehangir Hospital.
Dr. Sunil Jhavale, Nephrologist, and one of many latest members of the staff, added, “Transplant is a boon and life altering for sufferers on haemodialysis. At a Middle like ours with a lot expertise and complete care beneath one belt, outcomes are undoubtedly the very best.”
Saying the milestone, CEO, Vinod Sawantwadkar mentioned, “This isn’t a milestone that may be counted simply in numbers. 500 kidney transplants imply that 500 sufferers with finish stage kidney illness have obtained a second lease of life at Jehangir Hospital. This might not have been attainable with out the donors and their households who took this noble step. We’re proud to have achieved this milestone which is a testomony to the calibre of superior medical care out there at Jehangir hospital with our staff of excellent transplant specialists offering the best high quality care and outcomes. Our staff of nationally acknowledged transplant specialists has accomplished excellent work to supply the best high quality care and outcomes for sufferers in want of kidney transplantation. We attraction to everybody to unfold the attention in regards to the organ donation and are available ahead for this noble gesture. Your one small gesture can save somebody’s life.”
Among the many pioneers in kidney transplant in Pune, a multidisciplinary staff of transplant surgeons, physicians, nurses, transplant coordinators and social staff work in shut collaboration with the Community for Organ Sharing and the Nationwide Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) to assist sufferers with finish stage renal illness by means of kidney transplants, enabling them to steer regular lives. Jehangir Hospital is amongst the only a few hospitals doing ABO incompatible transplant.
The organ transplant programme is backed by state-of-the-art services similar to devoted Intensive Care Models, refined diagnostic and radiology services and superior working theatres with instruments required for protected surgical procedure.
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