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JAMMU: To create awareness on chronic kidney disease & kidney transplant a team of doctors from LIVASA Hospital, Amritsar addressed the media on Wednesday. Present on the occasion were Dr. Avinash Srivastava senior director urology & renal transplant, Dr. Paras Saini consultant urology & renal transplant, Dr. HK Imran Hussain consultant nephrology & Dr. Radhika Garg consultant nephrology.
Dr. Avinash Srivastava said, “2.2 lakh new patients develop chronic kidney failure (CKF) in India every year and only 6000 manage to get transplant for want of organ donations. Kidney failure is the 6th fastest growing cause of death, which may become the 5th leading cause by 2040. High blood pressure, diabetes, BPH, untreated kidney stones and UTI are the main reasons of kidney failure in India,”
He further said that LIVASA Hospitals which is Now Punjab’s biggest super speciality network, with 5 hospitals, 750 beds, 280 ICU beds has completed 1200 successful kidney transplants in Punjab.
At LIVASA Hospital we are doing all types of living donor transplants, which include high risk transplants, paediatric transplants swap cases, ABO incompatible transplants (non blood group specific) & redo transplants, said Dr Avinash. Patients from far off places like Dehradun, Jammu, Lucknow, Kanpur, Bihar, Jharkhand, Canada, UK have also undergone kidney transplant at Livasa Hospitals, he informed.
He also shared that LIVASA hospital Amritsar, has got approval from Govt to conduct cadaveric transplant and hospital has started registering patients for cadaveric kidney transplant.
Discussing how chronic kidney failure leads to irreversible damage to the kidneys, Dr Imran Hussain said, “CRF is progressive in nature and irreversible damage to the kidneys could happen mainly because of diabetes, hypertension, infection, urinary obstruction, stone disease and some inherited abnormalities. Advanced stage of CKF or end stage renal disease requires some form of renal replacement therapy (RRT) like haemodialysis (filtering the blood off toxins & waste products) or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). The prevalence of this disease has almost doubled over the past decade, and is expected to increase further due to rise in risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, stress, and unhealthy eating habits.
Elucidating the benefits of a renal transplant to the patient in the long run, Dr. Paras Saini said all kind of kidney transplant services are now fully functional at LIVASA Hospital Amritsar and LIVASA is the only Hospital in Amritsar which is offering services for kidney transplant. He also shared that every 10 minutes one person is added to the organ transplant waiting list and 20 people die every day for an Organ in India. More than 3 Lac patients are waiting for Organ Donation, but less than 10 % of the patients waiting for organ donation get it on time. According to a recent survey only one Donor is available per million population. Speaking on this occasion Dr. Radhika Garg said “Nationally, with a population of 1.4 billion people, the statistic stands at 0.08 persons as organ donors per million population (PMP) in India. This is an incredibly small and insignificant number compared to the statistics around the world. Although India remains 3rd in World in Organ donation after USA & China, only 0.01 percent of People in India donate organs after death. Kidneys are the most frequently needed organ followed by liver. 85 % of people waiting for Organ Donation need a Kidney and Kidney is the most commonly donated Organ in India. By donating organs, a deceased donor person can save the lives of up to 8 individuals by way of organ donation and enhance the lives of over 50 people by way of tissue donation.
On this occasion, Dr Amarpreet Singh, General Manager Operations of LIVASA Hospital Amritsar said that “We have a State of the Art 8 Bedded Dialysis centre in our hospital and we offer 24×7 dialysis services, including Intervention nephrology services like permacath, AV fistula, renal biopsies and centre lines. He also shared that LIVASA Hospital Amritsar is now empanelled with ECHS, CGHS, ESI CAPF and all major TPA & corporates.