First cadaver pancreas transplant done in Rajasthan
AFTER COUNSELLING, THE FAMILY MEMBERS AGREED FOR ORGAN DONATION. PANCREAS, LIVER AND KIDNEY WERE TRANSPLANTED AT THE MAHATMA GANDHI HOSPITAL
first cadaver pancreas transplant took place on Friday at a private hospital here on Friday.
Chairman of Mahatma Gandhi Hospital Dr ML Swarnakar said Jaipur has become the fourth centre to transplant pancreas after Coimbatore, Chennai and Chandigarh.
Swarnakar said it is for the first time in the state that pancreas and kidney have been transplanted together in a patient.
He further said that Rajendra Kumar Kheechad (30), a contract labourer with the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited , working in Ludhiana, and a resident of Hanumangarh on February 21 while digging a trench got buried in mud and was rescued after half an hour later.
He was admitted to the hospital and he was declared brain dead on February 22.
After counselling, the family members agreed for organ donation. Pancreas, liver and kidney were transplanted at the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital in Jaipur.
The heart was sent to another private hospital– Eternal Health Care Centre –in Jaipur for transplantation and a kidney was sent to the government-run Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur.
Swarnakar said in Rajasthan, 13 cadaver liver transplantations have taken place out of which 12 have been done in Mahatma Gandhi Hospital. The transplantation surgery went for more than 11 hours starting from 1am on Friday.
In Rajasthan, doctors Raj Shekhar P, TC Sadasukhi, Suraj Godara, Rajeev Kasliwal, Sanjay Singhal, Suresh Bhargava and Vipin Goya are experts in the transplantation of organs, Swarnakar said
On February 8, 2015, a sixyear-old boy became first cadaver donor, after being declared bread dead, and his family members agreed to donate his liver and kidneys.
His liver was sent to the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi, and one kidney was used on a patient in the hospital while the other kidney was sent to Delhi.
The state’s first heart transplant was performed on August 3, 2015, making Rajasthan the sixth state to have performed such an operation.
The heart of 18-year old Raju Luhar, a brain dead patient, was transplanted to Suraj Bhan (32).
The first liver transplant was done on November 28, 2015, on a 25-year-old man, suffering from liver cirrhosis, when victim of a road accident in Haryana was declared brain dead.
His family members agreed to donate his liver for transplantation.
The state has carved a niche for itself in organ transplantation with 60 transplants until the end of 2016.
The state began organ transplantation in 2014.
According to Dr Manish Sharma, nodal officer of donor organ and transplantation programme in the state, 10 hospitals in Rajasthan are licensed for organ transplants.