STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: In a path breaking achievement the Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu has got the distinction of becoming the first Medical College in the UT of Jammu & Kashmir to successfully perform three live kidney transplants on April 30 and May 1, 2022.
“This is the first time that Kidney Transplant has been done in a Medical College in the UT and with this the GMC Jammu has become one of the very few Medical Colleges in the country where Kidney Transplant is done,” Principal GMC Jammu, Dr. Shashi Sudan Sharma said.
She added that it was possible because of the support from the Administrative Department and through co-ordinated efforts by the Departments of Urology, Nephrology, Anaesthesiology, Pathology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Blood Bank, Radiology, Medical Superintendent and Deputy Medical Superintendent, SSH.
In the first case, she said, the kidney of a mother was successfully transplanted to her 27-year-old son and in the second case the kidney of another mother was transplanted to her 36 year old daughter and in the third case, the kidney of a wife was transplanted to her 60 year old husband.
The recipients hailed from districts Kishtwar, Doda and Jammu respectively, she said adding that all recipients were the cases of Chronic Kidney Disease on dialysis.
After the family members came forward to donate their kidneys, Dr Sudan said, the transplantation was carried out after completing all the legal formalities.
The procedure was carried out totally free under Ayushman Bharat Sehat Scheme.
Dr Shashi also informed that donor nephrectomy was done laproscopically and all the kidney donors were discharged on the 5th post operative day and out of the three recipients, two are being discharged today.
HoD of Department Urology, Dr. Elias Sharma said that due to the transplant team’s efforts, transplantation procedure went smoothly and the department is also ready to take up cadaver transplant in near future.
For this, patients would have to register themselves with State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (SOTTO) J&K in Super Speciality Hospital Jammu.
The Nephrology team was led by Dr. Raju Bhandari and Dr. Aman Gupta and did a commendable job including planning, pre-transplant, transplant and post-transplant management of the patients.
Besides, Dr. Elias Sharma, other members in the transplantation team were Dr. Shailesh Raina from Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai and Dr. Santosh Kumar from CMC, Vellore as experts from outside and Dr. Rahul Gupta from Urology, Dr. Anjali Mehta from Anaesthesia, Dr. Ashwani Kumar from Anaesthesia, Dr. Mozzain Iqbal and Dr. Anchal Kotwal from Urology, from GMC, Jammu.
