‘Super Speciality’ first in State to perform 50 kidney transplants
| Date :10-Jun-2019 |
Team of doctors with Dr Sajal Mitra, Dean that worked hard to achieve the feat of performing 50 kidney transplants.
Principal Correspondent:
Super Specialty Hospital (SSH) of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) has become first in Maharashtra among Government hospitals to perform 50 kidney transplants. The first kidney transplant was conducted on February 9, 2016 since then GMCH never looked back. Addressing mediapersons on Saturday, Dr Sajal Mitra, Dean of GMCH said, “It is a collective efforts of our team at Super Specialty Hospital and support from Department of Medical Education.
The kind of enthusiasm and approach of volunteering by the team could make us achieve this feat. The 50th kidney transplant was performed two days ago on Amit Wahane, a young boy of 26 years. “He came to us in November, 2018 with the proble of kidney failure, then he was in third stage. We conducted several tests on him and came to conclusion nothing could be done. We kept him on dialysis for some time but that was only measures of relief.
The only option remained with us is of kidney transplant. We checked with his close relatives and found, kidney of her mother could be donated. Accordingly, we convinced them and mother agreed to do the honour,” informed Dr Charulata Bawankule, Head, Department of Nephrology, SSH. Team of doctors performed kidney transplant successfully. Dr Sanjay Kolte, noted Urologist along with Dr Sameer Chaube, well-known Nephrologist said, “Normally donor takes 4 to 5 days to recover while it takes at least three months for recipient to recover.
Till then certain precautions are need to be taken by both.” Dr Charulata Bawankule stated, “In the past for some time we lack in staff as far as post operative rehabilitation is concerned. Now, we have well trained full-fledged staff rendering services after transplant. Time to time donor and recipients have to do check up, get their Kidney Function Test done periodically. Of course these measures are to be taken by healthy individuals too otherwise. These are only precautionary measures.” Dr Chaube said, “The rate of recovery is 98% regarding live kidney transplant which is good as compared to cadaveric which is 72%.” Out of the 50 transplants 5 are cadaveric while 45 are live with 39 were covered under Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jivandayi Aarogya Yojna. Rest prefered SSH over private ones.
Can GMCH become second Transplant Centre in India? Several people are not aware of concept of Transplant Centre. Dr Sanjay Kolte, noted Urologist explained, “Transplant Centre is that where people are trained to perform all kinds of transplant. There is no bifurcation of specialities. Those perform kidney transplant can do it in case of heart, liver, lungs too. Concept has not taken roots in India yet.” Dr Sameer Chaube informed, “Only one such centre is there in the whole country situated at Ahmedabad. It was set up by Dr H L Trivedi in Civil Hospital supported by Government and a Trust.” Dr Mitra said, “As far as setting up Transplant Centre in GMCH we need to have first facility to do liver and heart transplant then we can thought of such Transplant Centre.
Team of doctors The team of doctors that worked hard to achieve success in kidney transplant includes:
Nephrology: Dr Charulata Bawankule, Dr Sameer Chaube, Dr Piyush Kimmatkar, Dr Vandana Admane.
Urologist: Dr Sanjay Kolte, Dr Dhananjay Selukar, Dr Jayant Nikose, Dr Avinash Rinait, Dr Niket Jain. n
Anaesthesiologists: Dr Vijay Shrotey, Dr Pankaj Bhople, Dr Ashutosh Jaiswal, Dr Abhay Ganar, Dr Yogesh Jhanwar
Coordinator: Dr Mehraj Sheikh.
GMCH plans to have liver and heart transplant facility After performing kidney transplants successfully, now GMCH is planning to have facility of conducting liver and heart transplants. The Institute has not prepared any proposal yet. It is just contemplating. But according to Dean Dr Sajal Mitra it could be done after making certain arrangements. Till now kidney transplants were to be conducted in the Operation Theatres meant for Cardio-Vascular-Thoracic Surgery (CVTS) department. Now it has its own OT. Gradually, it is planning to do other transplants too.
Rotary Club to shift Skin Bank to GMCH Skin Bank concept was brought in Nagpur after the efforts taken by noted Plastic Surgeon Dr Sameer Jahagirdar with the support of Rotary Club of Nagpur and Orange City Hospital and Research Institute (OCHRI). It has provided new lease of life to several people. Now the bank is to be shifted to GMCH. The talks are underway between GMCH and Rotary Club.
Dr Lahane expresses happiness Padma Shri Dr Tatyarao Lahane, Director of Medical Education and Research who himself had undergone kidney transplant expressed happiness over the feat of GMCH. The transplant that was performed on Dr Lahane long back has similarity with the 50th transplant taken place at SSH. In both cases mother is donor and son is recipient.